 put an end to the secrecy of love, and Paradise 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...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 92by Samuel Johnson - 1825Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Rogers - 1854 - 494 pages
...of mankind, being beyond the age they live In, are so seldom understood before they are gone ! (*) Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper Milton surveyed the silent progress of bis work, and marked his reputation stealing its way in a klud of subterraneous current through fear... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1854 - 482 pages
...of mankind, being beyond the age they live In, are so seldom understood before they are gone .' P> Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper Milton surveyed the silent progrès» of his work, and marked hi* reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current... | |
 | James Boswell - 1859 - 320 pages
...by the hand of Johnson? I shall select only the following passage concerning “Paradise Lost :“ “Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what...surveyed the silent progress of his work, and marked his reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current, through fear and silence. I cannot... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1869 - 548 pages
...seldom understood before they are gone 1 P. 138, 1. 24.—Throng h the dim curtains of Futurity.—" Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper...surveyed the silent progress of his work, and marked his reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current through fear and silence. I cannot... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1869 - 528 pages
...seldom understood before they are gone ! P. 138, 1. 24.—Through the dim curtains of Futurity.—"Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper...surveyed the silent progress of his work, and marked his reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current through fear and silence. I cannot... | |
 | 1872 - 830 pages
...forerunner of permanent and world-wide reputation, or it may not. Fancy has been amused by conjecturing " with what temper Milton surveyed the silent progress...marked its reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterranean current through fear and silence." Its reputation did not burst forth in full brilliancy... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1880 - 470 pages
...forerunner of permanent and world-wide reputation, or itmaynot. Fancy has been amused by conjecturing “ with what temper Milton surveyed the silent progress...marked its reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterranean current through fear and silence.” Its reputation did not burst forth in full briffiancy... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1880 - 494 pages
...forerunner of permanent and world-wide reputation, or it may not. Fancy has been amused by conjecturing " with what temper Milton surveyed the silent progress...marked its reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterranean current through fear and silence." Its reputation did not burst forth in full brilliancy... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1880 - 444 pages
...forerunner of permanent and world-wide reputation, or it may not. Fancy has been amused by conjecturing " with what temper Milton surveyed the silent progress...marked its reputation, stealing its way in a kind of subterranean current through fear and silence." Its reputation did not burst forth in full brilliancy... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 658 pages
...by the hand of Johnson ? I shall select only the following passage concerning " Paradise Lost:"— " Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper...surveyed the silent progress of his work, and marked his reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current, through fear and silence. I cannot... | |
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