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" 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 Most Celebrated English Poets, with Criticisms. Extracted ... - Page 63
by Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 312 pages
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Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 302 pages
....the variation of in'cidents, the interpofition or dialogue, and all the flratagems that .furprife and enchain attention. But, of all the borrowers from Homer, Milton .is perhaps the leaft indebted. He was naturally a thinker for himfelf, confident of his own abilities, and difdainful...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: Cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 498 pages
...fable, the variation of incidents, the interpofition or dialogue, and all the ftratagems that furprife and enchain attention. But, of all the borrowers from Homer, Milton is perhaps the leaft indebted. He was naturally a thinker for himfelf, confident of his own abilities, and difdainful...
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The lives of the most eminent English poets

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...fable, the variation of incidents, the interpofition of dialogue, and all the ftratagems that furprife and enchain attention. But, of all the borrowers from Homer, Milton is perhaps the leaft indebted. He was naturally a thinker for himfelf, confident of his own abilities, and difdainful...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson.LL.D..: The lives of the English poets

Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...fable, the variation of incidents, the interpofition of dialogue, and all the ftratagems that lurprife and enchain attention. But, of all the borrowers from Homer, Milton is perhaps the leaft indebted. He was naturally a thinker for himfelf, confident of his own abilities, and difdainful...
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The Lives of the English Poets: and a Criticism of Their Work

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1795 - 610 pages
...fable, the variation of incident, the interpofition or dialogue, and all the ftratagems that furprife and enchain attention. But, of all the borrowers from Homer, Milton is perhaps the leaft indebted. He was naturally a thinker for himfelf, confident of his own abilities, and difdainful...
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Johnson's Lives of the the English Poets: Abridged: with Notes and Illustrations

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1797 - 278 pages
...fable, the variation of incident, the interpofition of dialogue, and all the ftratagems that furprife and enchain attention. But of all the borrowers from Homer, Milton is perhaps the leaft indebted. He was naturally a thinker for himfelf, confident of his own abilities, and difdainful...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...opposed, and be gentle after triumph.' 'Johnson in the Life of Milton describes himself: — 'Milton was naturally a thinker for himself, confident of...own abilities, and disdainful of help or hindrance. From his contemporaries he neither couited nor received support ; there is in his writings nothing...
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Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...opposed, and be gentle after triumph.' 'Johnson in the Life of Milton describes himself: — 'Milton was naturally a thinker for himself, confident of...own abilities, and disdainful of help or hindrance. From his contemporaries he neither courted nor received support ; there is in his writings nothing...
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Lives

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...be ;ed_for the art of poetical narration, for the texture of the fable, the variation of incidents, the interposition of dialogue, and all the stratagems that surprise and enchain attention. Bur, of all the borrowers from Homer, Milton upsthe least indebted. He was naturally a thinker for...
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Lives of English poets

Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 pages
...fable, the variation of incidents, the interpofition of dialogue, and all the flratagems that furprize and enchain attention. But, of all the borrowers from Homer, Milton is perhaps the leaft indebted. He was naturally a thinker for himfelf, confident of his own abilities, and difdainful...
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