 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 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) - 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... | |
 | Johnson Club (London, England) - 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... | |
 | Henry Arthur Treble, George Henry Vallins - 1927 - 244 pages
...predecessors, but he did not seek them. F'rom 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,... | |
 | Cedric Clive Brown - 1993 - 318 pages
...go instead to John Minsheu for his Ductorin Lingua; of 1617. 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' (p. 194) .Johnson is ostensibly talking here about literary rather... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 500 pages
...predecessors, but he did not seek the" From his contemporaries he neither courted nor received support; the is in his writings nothing by which the pride of other authors might : gratified, or favour gained; no exchange of praise, nor solicitation .1 support. His great works... | |
 | Kevin Pask - 1996 - 238 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,... | |
 | Stephen B. Dobranski - 1999 - 276 pages
...image of Milton as a solitary creator, but he attributed the poet's isolation to egotism and surliness: "there is in his writings nothing by which the pride of other authors might be gratified or favor gained, no exchange of praise or solicitation of support" (Lives of the English Poets, p. 194).... | |
 | Helga Schwalm - 2007 - 422 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,... | |
 | Richard Fletcher Charles - 1882 - 488 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,... | |
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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. 
