 | Samuel Johnson - 1894 - 196 pages
...cannot but conceive him calm and confident, little disappointed, not at all dejected, relying on his own merit with steady consciousness, and waiting,...opinion, and the impartiality of a future generation. In the mean time he continued his studies, and supplied the want of sight by a very odd expedient,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 546 pages
...cannot but conceive him calm and confident, little disappointed, not at all dejected, relying on his own merit with steady consciousness, and waiting without...opinion, and the impartiality of a future generation." Indeed, even Dr. Towers, who may be considered as one of the warmest zealots of The Revolution Society... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - English poetry - 1900 - 318 pages
...cannot but conceive him calm and confident, little disappointed, not at all dejected, relying on his own merit with steady consciousness, and waiting without impatience the vicissitudes of opinion and the impar- 5 tiality of a future generation. In the meantime he continued his studies, and supplied the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1901 - 206 pages
...cannot but conceive him calm and confident, little disappointed, not at all dejected, relying on his own merit with steady consciousness, and waiting without...vicissitudes of opinion, and the impartiality of a future treneration. MILTON'S RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL OPINIONS. His theological opinions are said to have been... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 726 pages
...cannot but conceive him calm and confident, little disappointed, not at all dejected, relying on his own merit with steady consciousness, and waiting without...opinion, and the impartiality of a future generation.' 362 THE LIFE OF MILTON [1781 Indeed even Dr. Towers, who may be considered as one of the warmest zealots... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1907 - 172 pages
...cannot but conceive him calm and confident, little disappointed, not at all dejected, relying on his own merit with steady consciousness, and waiting without...opinion, and the impartiality of a future generation. 25 In the meantime he continued his studies, and supplied the want of sight by a very odd expedient,... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1910 - 548 pages
...cannot but conceive him calm and confident, little disappointed, not at all dejected, relying on his own merit with steady consciousness, and waiting without...opinion, and the impartiality of a future generation." Indeed, even Dr. Towers, who may be considered as one of the warmest zealots of The Revolution Society... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - Literary Criticism - 1923 - 438 pages
...cannot but conceive him calm and confident, little disappointed, not at all dejected, relying on his own merit with steady consciousness, and waiting,...opinion, and the impartiality of a future generation." To point out the beauty of the above-quoted passage is certainly needless ; an image more exquisitely... | |
 | Christopher Hollis - 1928 - 240 pages
...cannot but conceive him calm and confident, little disappointed, not at all dejected, relying on his own merit with steady consciousness and waiting without...opinion and the impartiality of a future generation." It is strange that a man of Mark Pattison's standing should have been guilty of such mean and unscholarly... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1828 - 802 pages
...Johnson," but conceive him calm and confident, little disappointed, not at all dejected, relying on his own merit with steady consciousness, and waiting without...opinion, and the impartiality of a future generation." The admirers of Milton can produce no encomium of the bard that surpasses, or perhaps, that equals... | |
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I cannot but conceive him calm and confident, little disappointed, not at all dejected, relying on his own merit with steady consciousness, and waiting, without impatience, the vicissitudes of opinion, and the impartiality of a future generation. 
