 | 1826 - 434 pages
...very little consideration; when occasion or necessity called upon him, he poured out what the present moment happened to supply, and, when once it had passed...dared the judgment of his reader, and, expecting no indulgence from others, he shewed none to himself. He examined lines and words with minute and punctilious... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 446 pages
...very little consideration ; when occasion or necessity called upon him, he poured out what the present moment happened to supply, and, when once it had passed...dared the judgment, of his reader, and, expecting no indulgence from others, he shewed none to himself. He examined lines and words with minute and punctilious... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 pages
...very little consideration ; when occasion or necessity called upon him, he poured out what the present moment happened to supply, and, when once it had passed...for, when he had no pecuniary interest, he had no fini her solicitude. Pope was not content to satisfy ; he desired to excel . and therefore always endeavoured... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...very little consideration; when occasion or necessity called upon him, he poured out what the present intermingled graves, îlack melancholy sits, and round...repose ; ier gloomy presence saddens all the scene, indulgence from others, he showed none to himself. He examined lines and words with minute and punctilious... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 630 pages
...he says of Pope — 'He laboured his works, first to gam reputation, and afterwards to keep it' He mages. This precept may be justly extended to the series of life : nothing is ended with honour, hia read:rs; and expecting no indulgence from others, be showed none himself. He examined Une* and... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1835 - 496 pages
...very little consideration: when occasion or necessity called upon him, he poured out what the present moment happened to supply, and, when once it had passed...no pecuniary interest he had no further solicitude. Poi'E professed to have learned his poetry from Dryden, whom, whenever an opportunity was presented,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 pages
...very little consideration; when occasion or necessity called upon him, he poured out what the present s many more in prose. Tie with our judgments as our...share ; tolh must alike from Heaven derive their light indulgence from others, he showed none to himself. He examined lines and words with minute and punctilious... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...very little consideration ; when occasion or necessity called upon him, he poured out what the present nch idioms, with which Bolingbroke had perhaps infected...sleeps, and hardly flows The freezing Tanais through a. indulgence from others, he showed none to himself. He examined lines and words with minute and punctilious... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 630 pages
...he says of Pope — 'He laboured his works, first to gain reputation, and afterwards to keep it." He was not content to satisfy ; he desired to excel,...not court the candour, but dared the judgment of his readers; and expecting no indulgence from others, he showed none himself. He examined lines and words... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 742 pages
...very little consideration ; when occasion or necessity called upon him, he poured out what the present nor manners. Where liiere is fiction, there is no...shepherdess, and talks of goats and lambs, feels no passion. hut dared the judgment, of his reader, and, expecting no indulgence from others, he showed none to... | |
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... powers; he never attempted to make that better which was already good, nor often to mend what he must have known to be faulty. He wrote, as he tells us, with very little consideration; when occasion or necessity called upon him, he poured out what... 
