 | James Boswell - 1884 - 626 pages
...fallen on evil days and evil tongues, with darkness and with dangers compassed round. This darkness, had his eyes been better employed, had undoubtedly...equal to his other powers ; Milton, whose warmest advo1 See An Essay on the Life, Character, and Writings of Dr. Samuel Johnson, London, 1787 ; which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1886 - 516 pages
...on evil days and evil tongues, \ and with darkness and with danger compass'd round. This darkness, had his eyes been better employed, had undoubtedly...but to add the mention of danger was ungrateful and uvjust. He was fallen indeed on evil days; the time was come in which regicides could no longer boast... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 466 pages
...vii.95evil days and evil tongues, [and] with darkness and with danger compassed round ' . This darkness, had his eyes been better employed, had undoubtedly...that he never spared any asperity of reproach, or brutalfty of insolence V I have, indeed, often wondered how Milton, ' an acrimonious and surly Republican... | |
 | James Boswell - 1888 - 544 pages
...fallen on evil days and evil tongues, and with darkness and with danger compassed round. This darkness, had his eyes been better employed, had undoubtedly...longer boast their wickedness. But of evil tongues to complain, required impudence at least equal to his other powers : Milton, whose warmest advocates... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1892 - 180 pages
...fallen on evil days and evil tongues, and with darkness and with danger composed round. This darkness, had his eyes been better employed, had undoubtedly deserved compassion : but to add the 20 mention of danger was ungrateful and unjust. He was fallen indeed on evil days; the time was come... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1894 - 196 pages
...on evil days and evil tongues, and with darkness and with danger compass'd round. This darkness, 30 had his eyes been better employed, had undoubtedly...impudence at least equal to his other powers ; Milton, wkose warmest advocates must allow, that he never spared any asperity of reproach or brutality of insolence.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - 1900 - 318 pages
...compassed round. This darkness, had his eyes been better employed, had undoubtedly deserved compassion ; io but to add the mention of danger was ungrateful and...complain required impudence at least equal to his 1 5 other powers, — Milton, whose warmest advocates must allow that he never spared any asperity... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 546 pages
...fallen on evil days and evil tongues, and with darkness and with danger compass'd round. This darkness, had his eyes been better employed, had undoubtedly...longer boast their wickedness. But of evil tongues to complain, required impudence at least equal to his other powers : Milton, whose warmest advocates... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 pages
...s and evil tongues, with darkness and with dangers compassed round. This darkness, had his eyesbeen ich is a créât lequired impudence at least equal to his other powers ; — Milton, whose warmest advocates must allow... | |
 | James Boswell - 1901 - 372 pages
...fallen on evil days and evU tonyues, with darkness and with dangers compassed round. This darkness, had his eyes been better employed, had undoubtedly...longer boast their wickedness. But of evil tongues 1 See An Essay en the Life, Character, and Writings of Dr. Samuel Johnson, London, 1787, which is very... | |
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King, was perhaps more than he hoped, seems not to have satisfied him; for no sooner is he safe, than he finds himself in danger, fallen on evil days and evil tongues, and with darkness and with danger compassed round. This darkness, had his eyes been... 
