 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 503 pages
...marked his reputation ftealing its way in a kind of fubterraneous current through fear and filence. I cannot but conceive him calm and confident, little disappointed, not at all dejected, relying op his own merit with fteady confcioufnefs, and waiting, without impatience, the viciffitudes of opinion,... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799
...reproach.' Act v. sc. 2. ' Oh hide me from myself.' Act v. sc. 3. 1 Johnson wrote of Milton : — ' I cannot but conceive him calm and confident, little...opinion, and the impartiality of a future generation.' Johnson's Works, vii. 108. ' Genus irritabile vatum.' 'The fretful tribe of rival poets.' Francis,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799
...reproach.' Act v. sc. 2. ' Oh hide me from myself.' Act v. sc. 3. ' Johnson wrote of Milton : — ' I cannot but conceive him calm and confident, little...opinion, and the impartiality of a future generation.' Johnson's Works, vii. 108. ' 'Genus irritabile vatum.' 'The fretful tribe of rival poets.' Francis,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800
...reputation stealing its way in kind of subterraneous current through fear and silence. I cannot but concei him calm and confident, little disappointed, not at all dejected, relying on 1 own merit with steady consciousness, and waiting, without impatience, t! vicissitudes of opinion,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804
...work, and marked its reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current through fear and silence. I cannot but conceive him calm and confident,...opinion, and the impartiality of a future generation. In the mean time he continued his studies, and supplied the want of sight by a very odd expedient,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1806
...marked its reputation stealing its , in a kind of subterraneous current, through VOL. X. B b fear and silence. I cannot but conceive him calm and confident,...opinion, and the impartiality of a future generation. In the mean time he continued his studies, and supplied the want of sight by a very odd expedient,... | |
 | John Milton - 1807
...work, and marked its reputation stealing its way iri a kind of subterraneous current through fear and silence. I cannot but conceive him calm and confident,...opinion, and the impartiality of a future .generation. In the mean time he continued his studies, and supplied the want of sight by a very odd expedient,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810
...work, and marked its reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current through fear and silence. I cannot but conceive him calm and confident,...and waiting without impatience the vicissitudes of opini. on, and the impartiality of a future generation. In the mean time he continued his studies,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810
...work, and marked its reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current through fear and silence. I cannot but conceive him calm and confident,...and waiting without impatience the vicissitudes of opinion5 and the impartiality of a future generation. In the mean time he continued his studies, and.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811
...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,...opinion, and the impartiality of a future generation. In the mean time he continued his studies and supplied the want of sight by a very odd expedient, of... | |
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Lost broke into open view with sufficient security of kind reception. Fancy can hardly forbear 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... 
