 | Samuel Johnson - 1788 - 596 pages
...improved, by what affiftance if was executed, ancf from what ftores the materials were collected, whether its founder dug them from the quarries of nature, or demolished other buildings to embeflifh his own. This inquiry has been, indeed, not wholly negkfted, "Wi perhaps, profecuted with... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...improved, by what assistance it was executed, and from what stores the materials were collected ; whether its founder dug them from the quarries of Nature,...demolished other buildings to embellish his own.' Is this the language of one who wished to blast the laurels of Milton'? Though Johnson's circumstances... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...improved, by what assistance it was executed, and from what stores the materials were collected; whether its founder dug them from the quarries of Nature,...demolished other buildings to embellish his own." — Is this the language of one who wished to blast the laurels of Milton ? Though Johnson's circumstances... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...improved, by what assistance it was executed, and from what stores the materials were collected ; whether its founder dug them from the quarries of Nature,...demolished other buildings to embellish his own.' Is this the language of one who wished to blast the laurels of Milton'? Though Johnson's circumstances... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 424 pages
...improved, by what affiftance it was executed, and from what ftores the materials were collected, whether its founder dug them from the quarries of nature, or demolished other buildings to embellifh his own.. This inquiry has been, indeed, not wholly neglected, nor, perhaps, profecuted with... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1802 - 612 pages
...improved, by what assistance it was executed, and from what stores the materialswere collected ; whether its founder dug them from the quarries of Nature,...than dispirited ; and every new discovery will teach ua more and more to admire the genius, the erudition, and the memory of the inimitable Milton/ Vol.... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1802 - 614 pages
...improved, by what assistance it was executed, and from what stores the materials were collected; whether its founder dug them from the quarries of Nature,...may venture to add, that in such inquiries patience \vill be invigorated rather than dispirited; and every new discovery will teach us more and more to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1806 - 360 pages
...improved, by what assistance it was executed, and from what stores the materials were collected, whether its founder dug them from the quarries of nature,...or demolished other buildings to embellish his own. This inquiry has been, indeed, not wholly neglected, nor, perhaps, prosecuted with the care and diligence... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 514 pages
...improved, by what assistance it was executed, and from what stores the materials were collected ; whether its founder dug them from the quarries of Nature,...demolished other buildings to embellish his own." 7 —Is this the language of one who wished to blast the laurels of Milton ? Though Johnson's circumstances... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 518 pages
...that, in fucli inquiries, patience will be invigorated rather than difpirited ; and every new difcovcry will teach us more and more to admire the genius,...erudition, and the memory, of the inimitable Milton. TODD. » See Bofwcll's Life of Jolmfon, vol. ip 199. OBSERVATIONS ON THE CHARACTERS OF THE FALLEN ANGELS... | |
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... turrets sparkle in the skies ; to trace back the structure through all its varieties, to the simplicity of its first plan ; to find what was first projected, whence the scheme was taken, how it was improved, by what assistance it was executed, and... 
