...sufficient security of kind reception. Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temped Milton surveyed the silent progress of his work, and marked...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 old expedient, of...

...that in which Dr. Johnson describes him aa surveying the silent operation of his work, and marking its reputation stealing its way, in a kind of subterraneous current, through fear and silence? " I cannot," says Dr. Johnson," but conceive him calm and confident, little disappointed, not at all dejected, relying...