| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - Počet stránok 610
...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. IN PARADISUM AMISSAM SUMMI POET^E JOANNIS MILTON L UI legis Amissam Paradisum, grandia magni , Carmina... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1805 - Počet stránok 322
...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. " BUTLER. TH E only accounts we have of the great author of Hudibras are all of disputable authority.... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - Počet stránok 560
...blindness; but difficulties vanished at his touch; he was born for whatever is arduous ; and bis work is not the greatest of heroic poems, only because it is not the first. AN INQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN or PARADISE LOST. BY MR. TODD. " THE petty circumstances, by which great... | |
| John Mason Good - 1813 - Počet stránok 830
...blindness; but difficulties vanished at his touch ; he was born for whatever is arduous; and Paradise Lost is not the greatest of heroic poems, only because it is not the first." Again, " The characteristic quality of his poem is sublimity. He sometimes descends in the elegant,... | |
| Robert Anderson - 1815 - Počet stránok 660
...second, among the productions of the human mind ;" and, in passing final sentence, pronounces it, " not the greatest of heroic poems only, because it is not the first ;" being superior or inferior to " The Iliad," as design and performance are to be comparatively rated.... | |
| Francis Wrangham - 1816 - Počet stránok 524
...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." EXTRACT From ' the Reason of Church-Government urged against Prelacy.' ' To him (vLz. the elegant and... | |
| William Fordyce Mavor - 1816 - Počet stránok 462
...blindness: but difficulties vanished at his touch; de was born for whatever is arduous; and his work is not the greatest of heroic poems, only because it is not 'lie first." ANDRKWMAKVKL L. Born 16-30—Died 1GTS. From llth James /., la '2VIh Cfalrles It. A MAX... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - Počet stránok 470
...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. BUTLER. the great author of Hudibras there is a life prefixed to the later editions of his poem, by... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - Počet stránok 466
...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. BUTLER. the great author of Hudibras there is a life prefixed to the later editions of his poem, by... | |
| British poets - 1822 - Počet stránok 302
...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. <&ncomtum0 upon IK PARADISUM AMISSAM SUMMI POET.E JOHANNIS MILTONI. SAMUELE BARROW, MD AUCTORE. Qui... | |
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