 | Samuel Johnson - 1894 - 196 pagina’s
...10 His great works were performed under discountenance, and in blindness, but difficulties vanished at his touch; he was born for whatever is arduous ; and his work is not the greatest of heroick poems, only because it is not the first. NOTES. p. 1, 1. 1, already written. Eg,... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 392 pagina’s
...support. His great works were performed under discountenance, and in blindness, but difficulties vanished at his touch ; he was born for whatever is arduous ; and his work is not the greatest of heroic poems only because it is not the first. L'ALLEGRO. John Milton. HENCE, loathed Melancholy,... | |
 | William Mathews - 1896 - 364 pagina’s
...follows : " His great works were performed under discountenance and blindness ; but difficulties vanished at his touch. He was born for whatever is arduous ; and his work is not the greatest of heroic poems only because it is not the first." A Plea for WHY is it that pedants are generally... | |
 | William Mathews - 1896 - 368 pagina’s
...: " His great work'8 were performed under discountenance and blindness ; but difficulties vanished at his touch. He was born for whatever is arduous ; and his work is not the greatest of heroic poems only because it is not the first." A Plea for WHY is it that pedants are generally... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 550 pagina’s
...' his great works were performed under discountenance and in blindness : but difficulties vanished at his touch ; he was born for whatever is arduous; and his work is not the greatest of heroick poems only because it is not the first.' Works, v. 271 ; vii. 142. ' She died three... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 530 pagina’s
...207. ' For rhyme with reason may dispense, And sound has right to govern sense.' Ib. p. 155. BUTLER1 OF the great author of Hudibras there is a life prefixed to the 1 later editions of his poem by an unknown writer 2, and therefore of disputable authority ; and some... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1887 - 926 pagina’s
..." His great works were performed under discountenance, and in blindness ; but difficulties vanished at his touch ; he was born for whatever is arduous ; and his work is not the greatest of heroic poems only because it is not the first." In our own day, we have seen another instance... | |
 | William James Dawson, Coningsby Dawson - 1909 - 368 pagina’s
...support. His great works were performed under discountenance, and in blindness, but difficulties vanished at his touch; he was born for whatever is arduous; and his work is not the greatest of heroic poems, only because it is not the first. THE FUNCTIONS or THE Cnonus IN THE GBEEK... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1910 - 196 pagina’s
...support. His great works were performed under discountenance and in blindness, but difficulties vanished at his touch ; he was born for whatever is arduous ; and his work is not the greatest of heroick poems, only because it is not the first.' When Johnson first came to London from... | |
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... 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. His great works were performed under discountenance,... 
