 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...predecessors, but he did not seek them. From his contemporaries he neither courted nor received support ; there is in his writings nothing by which the pride of other anthors might be gratified, or fuvour gained ; no exchange of praise, nor solicitation of support.... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 788 pages
...predecessors, but he did not seek them. From his contemporaries he neither courted Dor received support ; there is in his writings nothing- by which the pride...might be gratified, or favour gained ; no exchange of praise, nor solicitations of support. Hi* great works were performed under discimiitenance, and in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 486 pages
...predecessors, but he did not seek them. From his contemporaries he neither courted nor received support ; there is in his writings nothing by which the pride...might be gratified, or favour gained ; no exchange of praise, nor solicitation of support. His great works were performed under discountenance, and in blindness... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 524 pages
...predecessors, but he did not seek them. From his contemporaries he neither courted, nor received, support : there is in his writings nothing, by which the pride...might be gratified, or favour gained; no exchange of praises, nor solicitation of support. His great works were performed under discountenance, and in blindness... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1816 - 462 pages
...contemporaries he neither courted nor received' support: there is, in his writings, nothing by which thfi 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,and in blindness:... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 pages
...predecessors, but he did not seek them. From his contemporaries he neither courted nor received support; there is in his writings nothing by which the pride...might be gratified, or favour gained, no exchange of praise, nor solicitation of support. His great works were performed under discountenance, and; in blindness... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 466 pages
...predecessors, but he did not seek them. From his contemporaries he neither courted nor received support : There is in his writings nothing by which the pride...might be gratified, or favour gained ; no exchange of praise, nor solicitation of support. His great works were performed under discountenance, and in blindness... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 476 pages
...predecessors, but he did not seek them. From his contemporaries he neither courted nor received support ; there is in his writings nothing by which the pride...might be gratified, or favour gained ; no exchange of praise, nor solicitation of support. His great works were performed under discountenance, and in blindness... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 302 pages
...but he did not seek them. From his convOL. i. I temporaries he neither courted nor received support ; there is in his writings nothing by which the pride...might be gratified, or favour gained ; no exchange of praise, nor solicitation of support His great works were performed under discountenance, and in blindness;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 484 pages
...predecessors, but he did not seek them. From his contemporaries he neither courted nor received support ; there is in his writings nothing by which the pride of other authours might be gratified, or favour gained ; no exchange of praise, nor solicitation of support.... | |
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From his contemporaries 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. 
