...convenient to seek some shelter, and hid himself for a time in Bartholomew Close, by West Smithfield. I cannot but remark a kind of respect, perhaps unconsciously paid to this great man by his biographers: every J 5 house in which he resided is historically mentioned, as if it were an injury to neglect naming...

...this gloom of solitude ?' You have been agreeably mistaken." In his life of Milton, he observes, " I cannot but remark a kind of respect, perhaps unconsciously,...were an injury to neglect naming any place that he honoured by bis presence." I had, before I read this observation, been desirous of showing that respect...

...this gloom of solitude ? ' You have been agreeably mistaken." In his Life of Milton he observes, " I cannot but remark a kind of respect, perhaps unconsciously,...were an injury to neglect naming any place that he honoured by his presence." I had, before I read this observation, been desirous of shewing that respect...

...various homes, he is wary enough of the implications of doing so to mention his anxiety explicitly. "I cannot but remark a kind of respect, perhaps unconsciously,...were an injury to neglect naming any place that he honoured by his presence" (127). The problem for Johnson is that these biographers were treating Milton's...

...convenient to seek ^me shelter, and hid himself for a time in Bartholomew-Close, ky WesL-Smithfield. I cannot but remark a kind of respect, perhaps unconsciously...this great man by his biographers ; every house in whieh he resided is historically mentioned, as if it were an injury to neglect naming any place that...

...biographers have been careful in mentioning hiftorically every houfe in which this great poet lived, " as if it were an injury to neglect naming any place that he honoured by his prefence." Without being fcrupuloufly attached to this prjneiple, I fliall mention...