 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 σελίδες
...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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 σελίδες
...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, LIVES OF THE BRITISH POETS. nor solicitation of support. His great works were performed under... | |
 | Joseph Johnson - 1862 - 360 σελίδες
...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;... | |
 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 σελίδες
...predecessors, but he did not seek them. From his contemporaries he nejther 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - 346 σελίδες
...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;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1881 - 570 σελίδες
...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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1892 - 180 σελίδες
...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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1894 - 196 σελίδες
...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 solicitation of support. 10 His great works were performed under discountenance, and in blindness,... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 392 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | William Mathews - 1896 - 364 σελίδες
...concerning Milton, of whom he says that " 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." Worthy was such a man to receive... | |
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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. 
