 But, of all the borrowers from Homer, Milton is perhaps the least indebted. He was naturally a thinker for himself, confident of his own abilities, and disdainful of help or hindrance: he did not refuse admission to the thoughts or images of his predecessors,...  The Lives of the English Poets - Page 124by Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 420 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edwin Watts Chubb - 1914 - 488 pages
...the art of English poetry might be learned. ... I can not wish his work to be other than it is. ... But of all the borrowers from Homer, Milton is perhaps...naturally a thinker for himself, confident of his own abilities, and disdainful of help or hinderance." WE Channing thought that Johnson could not appreciate... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 924 pages
...owes reverence to that vigor and amplitude of mind to which all generations must be indebted for [250 the art of poetical narration, for the texture of...naturally a thinker for himself, confident of his own abilities, and disdainful of help and hindrance; he did not refuse admission to the [260 thoughts or... | |
 | Henry Arthur Treble, George Henry Vallins - 1927 - 244 pages
...contrived the structure of an epick poem, and therefore owes reverence to that vigour and amplitude of mind to which all generations must be indebted...naturally a thinker for himself, confident of his own abilities, and disdainful of help or hindrance : he did not refuse admission to the thoughts or images... | |
 | Kevin Pask - 1996 - 238 pages
...contrived the structure of an epick poem, and therefore owes reverence to that vigour and amplitude of mind to which all generations must be indebted...naturally a thinker for himself, confident of his own abilities and disdainful of help or hinderance; he did not refuse admission to the thoughts or images... | |
 | Elizabeth Sauer - 1996 - 230 pages
...that Milton "wrote no language" (1:190-1), does in fact commend the poet for his innovative art of narration, for the texture of the fable, the variation of incidents, the interposition of dialogue, and the stratagems that surprise and enchain attention in Paradise Lost. However, Johnson ultimately disarms... | |
 | Joseph Loewenstein - 2010 - 360 pages
...seems truly haunted by Lauder, the memory of whom forces Johnson first to a compensatory generosity — "of all the borrowers from Homer, Milton is, perhaps, the least indebted" — and then to a muted statement of the old thesis of Miltonic secondarity — "his work is not the... | |
 | John T. Lynch - 2003 - 244 pages
...is original invention. Milton cannot be said to have contrived the structure of an epick poem . . . But of all the borrowers from Homer Milton is perhaps...naturally a thinker for himself, confident of his own abilities and disdainful of help or hindrance; he did not refuse admission to the thoughts or images... | |
 | Richard Fletcher Charles - 1882 - 488 pages
...contrived the structure of an epic poem, and therefore owes reverence to that vigour and amplitude of mind to which all generations must be indebted...naturally a thinker for himself, confident of his own abilities, and disdainful of help or hindrance : he did not refuse admission to the thoughts or images... | |
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