 | Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - English poetry - 1900 - 318 pages
...predecessors, but he did not seek them. From his contemporaries he neither courted nor re2 5 ceived support ; there is in his writings nothing by which the pride...might be gratified or favour gained ; no exchange of praise nor solicitation of support. His great works were performed under discountenance and in blindness,... | |
 | Literature - 1901 - 628 pages
...predecessors, but he did not seek them. From his contemporaries he neither courted nor received support ; there is in his writings nothing by which the pride of other authors might be gratified, or favor gained ; no exchange of praise nor solicitation of support. His great works were performed under... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1910 - 196 pages
...predecessors, but he did not seek them. From his contemporaries he neither courted nor received support ; there is in his writings nothing by which the pride...might be gratified or favour gained, no exchange of praise nor solicitation of support. His great works were performed under discountenance and in blindness,... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...predecessors, but he did not seek them. From his contemporaries he neither courted nor received support. There is in his writings nothing by which the pride of other authors might be gratified, or favor gained ; no exchange of praise nor solicitation of support. His great works were performed under... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 pages
...predecessors, but he did not seek them. From his contemporaries he neither courted nor received support. There is in his writings nothing by which the pride of other authors might be gratified, or favor gained; no exchange of praise nor solicitation of support. His great works were performed under... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 752 pages
...predecessors, but he did not seek them. From his contemporaries he neither courted nor received support. There is in his writings nothing by which the pride of other authors might be gratified, or favor gained; no exchange of praise nor solicitation of support. His great works were performed under... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 566 pages
...predecessors, but he did not seek them. From his contemporaries he neither courted nor received support; there is in his writings nothing by which the pride of other authors might be gratified, or favor gained; no exchange of praise, nor solicitation of support. His great works were performed under... | |
 | Johnson Club (London, England) - Authors, English 18th century Biography - 1920 - 246 pages
...predecessors, but he did not seek them. From his contemporaries he neither courted nor received support : There is in his writings nothing by which the pride...might be gratified or favour gained, no exchange of praise or sollicitation of support." 4 In his adverse criticism also Johnson shows a very natural tendency... | |
 | Johnson Club (London, England) - Authors, English 18th century Biography - 1920 - 248 pages
...predecessors, but he did not seek them. From his contemporaries he neither courted nor received support : There is in his writings nothing by which the pride...might be gratified or favour gained, no exchange of praise or sollicitation of support." 4 In his adverse criticism also Johnson shows a very natural tendency... | |
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From his contemporaries he neither courted nor received support : There is in his writings nothing by which the pride of other authors might be gratified, or favour gained ; no exchange of praise, nor solicitation of support. 
