 This darkness, had his eyes been better employed, had undoubtedly deserved compassion ; but to add the mention of danger was ungrateful and unjust. He was fallen indeed on evil days ; the time was come in which regicides could no longer boast their wickedness....  The life of Samuel Johnson - 744 페이지저자: James Boswell - 1817전체보기 - 도서 정보
 | Kevin Pask - 1996 - 238 페이지
...in the proem to Book 7 of Paradise Lost that he was "compass'd round" with "evil tongues" (Milton's "warmest advocates must allow that he never spared...asperity of reproach or brutality of insolence"), Johnson also asserts: "Such is the reverence paid to great abilities, however misused: they who contemplated... | |
 | John N. King - 2000 - 262 페이지
...sees Milton's complaint about slander by "evil tongues" as a mark of churlishness, moreover, one that "required impudence at least equal to his other powers...never spared any asperity of reproach or brutality of insolence."39 Aversion to Milton's religion, politics, and character has encouraged twentieth-century... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 2002 - 238 페이지
...and, above all, the extraordinary level of intellectual confidence of Milton's prose itself: Milton's "warmest advocates must allow that he never spared...any asperity of reproach or brutality of insolence" (para. 127). To some extent these characteristics explain commensurate qualities in Johnson's prose... | |
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