Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper Milton surveyed the silent progress of his work, and marked his reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current through fear and silence. I cannot but conceive him calm and confident,... The life of Samuel Johnson - Página 744por James Boswell - 1817Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - 1838 - 708 páginas
...; and is conceived and expressed in Johnson's best manner. " Fancy can hardly forbear," says he, " to conjecture with what temper Milton surveyed the silent progress of his work, and marked its reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current through fear and silence. I cannot... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1839 - 510 páginas
...two narrow words, Hicjacct. RALKIQB. Note 3, page 11, col. 2. Through the dim curtains of Futurity. Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper...conceive him calm and confident, little disappointed, not al all dejected, relying on his own merit with steady consciousness, and waiting, without impatience,... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1839 - 60 páginas
...work, andmarked his reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current through fear ал Л silence. I cannot but conceive him calm and confident,...relying on his own merit with steady consciousness, and waiting, without impatience, the vicissitudes of opinion, and the impartiality of afuture generation.... | |
| David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 714 páginas
...a work which " the world would not willingly let die*." Dr. Johnson has touchingly remarked, that " fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper...surveyed the silent progress of his work, and marked its reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterranean current through fear and silence." " I cannot,"... | |
| David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 354 páginas
...a work which " the world Would not willingly let die*." Dr. Johnson has touchingly remarked, that " fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper...surveyed the silent progress of his work, and marked its reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterranean cur* In the " Paradise Lost" — indeed in... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 páginas
...secrecy of love, and ' Paradise Lost ' broke into open view with sufficient security of kind reception. Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper...surveyed the silent progress of his work, and marked its reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current through fear and silence* I cannot... | |
| David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 352 páginas
...a work which " the world would not willingly let die*." Dr. Johnson has touchingly remarked, that " fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper...surveyed the silent progress of his work, and marked its reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterranean current through fear and silence." " I cannot,"... | |
| David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 370 páginas
...most eloquent and interesting of the biographers of our poets, though not always their best critic,) " can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper...surveyed the silent progress of his work, and marked its reputation, stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current through fear and silence. I cannot... | |
| David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 364 páginas
...most eloquent and interesting of the biographers of our poets, though not always their best critic,) " can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper...surveyed the silent progress of his work, and marked its reputation, stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current through fear and silence. I cannot... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 716 páginas
...withwhat temper Milton surveyed the silent progress of his work, and marked its reputation stealing it» p 3@, de jected, relying on his own merit with steady consciousness, and Availing without impatience the... | |
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