 | Kevin Pask - 1996 - 238 pages
...support. His great works were performed under discountenance and in blindness, but difficulties vanished at his touch; he was born for whatever is arduous; and his work is not the greatest of heroick poems, only because it is not the first. ( 1 : 1 94) The conclusion of Johnson's... | |
 | Helga Schwalm - 2007 - 422 pages
...support. His great works were performed under discountenance and in blindness, but difficulties vanished at his touch; he was born for whatever is arduous; and his work is not the greatest of heroick poems, only because it is not the first.148 Die Herleitung der poetischen Originalität... | |
 | Richard Fletcher Charles - 1882 - 488 pages
...support. His great works were performed under discountenance, and in blindness, but difficulties vanished at his touch ; he was born for whatever is arduous ; and his work is not the greatest of heroic poems, only because it is not the first. Dr. Johnson. rxxxiv. THE HALL FARM. PLENTY... | |
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... 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. His great works were performed under discountenance,... 
