...could no longer boast their wickedaess. But of evil tongues for Milton to complain, required imprudence at least equal to his other powers ; — Milton, whose...acrimonious and surly Republican" — "a man who in his domestic relations was so severe and arbitrary,"1 and whose head was filled with the hardest and...

...the mention of danger, was ungrateful and unjust. He was fallen, indeed, on evil days ; the time was come in which regicides could no longer boast their...asperity of reproach, or brutality of insolence." 1 See An Essay on the Life, Character, and writings of Dr. Samuel Johnson, London, 1787 ; which is...

...mention of danger was ungrateful and unjust *. He was fallen indeed on ' evil days ' ; the time was come in which regicides could no longer boast their...any asperity of reproach or brutality of insolence. 128 But the charge itself seems to be false, for it would be hard to recollect any reproach cast upon...

...the mention of danger was ungrateful and unjust. He was fallen indeed on ' evil days'; the time was come in which regicides could no longer boast their...tongues' for Milton to complain, required impudence 15at least equal to his other powers; Milton, whose warmest advocates must allow that he never spared...

...; the time was come in which regicides could no longer boast their wickedness. But of evil tongues to complain, required impudence at least equal to...asperity of reproach, or brutality of insolence." • See "An Essay on the Life, Character, and Writings of Dr. Samuel Johnson," London, 1787 ; which...

...iritJi darkness and Kith dangers compassed round. He was fallen, indeed, 0u ceil days; the time was come in which regicides could no longer boast their...acrimonious and surly Republican," — "a man who in his domestic relations was so severe and arbitrary," and whose head was filled with the hardest and...

...in the proem to Book 7 of Paradise Lost that he was "compass'd round" with "evil tongues" (Milton's "warmest advocates must allow that he never spared...asperity of reproach or brutality of insolence"), Johnson also asserts: "Such is the reverence paid to great abilities, however misused: they who contemplated...

...sees Milton's complaint about slander by "evil tongues" as a mark of churlishness, moreover, one that "required impudence at least equal to his other powers...never spared any asperity of reproach or brutality of insolence."39 Aversion to Milton's religion, politics, and character has encouraged twentieth-century...

...and, above all, the extraordinary level of intellectual confidence of Milton's prose itself: Milton's "warmest advocates must allow that he never spared...any asperity of reproach or brutality of insolence" (para. 127). To some extent these characteristics explain commensurate qualities in Johnson's prose...

...mention of danger was ungrateful and unjust. He was fallen indeed on evil days ; the time was come when regicides could no longer boast their wickedness....any asperity of reproach, or brutality of insolence. But the charge itself seems to be false ; for it would be hard to recollect any reproach cast upon...