 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 302 strani
....the variation of in'cidents, the interpofition or dialogue, and all the flratagems that .furprife and enchain attention. But, of all the borrowers from Homer, Milton .is perhaps the leaft indebted. He was naturally a thinker for himfelf, confident of his own abilities, and difdainful... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 498 strani
...fable, the variation of incidents, the interpofition or dialogue, and all the ftratagems that furprife and enchain attention. But, of all the borrowers from Homer, Milton is perhaps the leaft indebted. He was naturally a thinker for himfelf, confident of his own abilities, and difdainful... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 strani
...fable, the variation of incidents, the interpofition of dialogue, and all the ftratagems that furprife and enchain attention. But, of all the borrowers from Homer, Milton is perhaps the leaft indebted. He was naturally a thinker for himfelf, confident of his own abilities, and difdainful... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 strani
...fable, the variation of incidents, the interpofition of dialogue, and all the ftratagems that lurprife and enchain attention. But, of all the borrowers from Homer, Milton is perhaps the leaft indebted. He was naturally a thinker for himfelf, confident of his own abilities, and difdainful... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1795 - 610 strani
...fable, the variation of incident, the interpofition or dialogue, and all the ftratagems that furprife and enchain attention. But, of all the borrowers from Homer, Milton is perhaps the leaft indebted. He was naturally a thinker for himfelf, confident of his own abilities, and difdainful... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1797 - 278 strani
...fable, the variation of incident, the interpofition of dialogue, and all the ftratagems that furprife and enchain attention. But of all the borrowers from Homer, Milton is perhaps the leaft indebted. He was naturally a thinker for himfelf, confident of his own abilities, and difdainful... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 strani
...opposed, and be gentle after triumph.' 'Johnson in the Life of Milton describes himself: — 'Milton was naturally a thinker for himself, confident of...own abilities, and disdainful of help or hindrance. From his contemporaries he neither couited nor received support ; there is in his writings nothing... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 strani
...opposed, and be gentle after triumph.' 'Johnson in the Life of Milton describes himself: — 'Milton was naturally a thinker for himself, confident of...own abilities, and disdainful of help or hindrance. From his contemporaries he neither courted nor received support ; there is in his writings nothing... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 strani
...be ;ed_for the art of poetical narration, for the texture of the fable, the variation of incidents, the interposition of dialogue, and all the stratagems that surprise and enchain attention. Bur, of all the borrowers from Homer, Milton upsthe least indebted. He was naturally a thinker for... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 strani
...fable, the variation of incidents, the interpofition of dialogue, and all the flratagems that furprize and enchain attention. But, of all the borrowers from Homer, Milton is perhaps the leaft indebted. He was naturally a thinker for himfelf, confident of his own abilities, and difdainful... | |
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But of all the borrowers from Homer, Milton is perhaps the least indebted. He was naturally a thinker for himself, confident of his own abilities, and disdainful of help or hindrance : he did not refuse admission to the thoughts or images of his predecessors,... 
