 | 1796 - 690 pagina’s
...loftinefs*. He can pleafe when pleafure is required ; but it is His peculiar power to aftonilh. He feems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that nature had bellowed upon him more bountifully than upon others; the power of difplaying the vaft, illuminating... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 280 pagina’s
...loftinefs*.. He can pleafe when pleafure is required ; but it is his peculiar power to aftonifh, He feems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that Nature had beftowed upon him more bountifully than upon others; the power of difplaying the vaft, illuminating... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1779 - 510 pagina’s
...loftinefs. He can pleafe , when pleafure is required ; but it is his peculiar power to aftoniih. ' He feems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that nature had bellowed upon him more bountifully than upon others; the power of difplaying the vaft, illuminating... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1780 - 590 pagina’s
...learning, to throw off into his work the fpirit of fcience, unmingled with its grofler parts. ' He fecms to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that Nature had bellowed upon him more bountifully than upon others ; the power of difplaying the vaft, illuminating... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1780 - 726 pagina’s
...loftinefs*. He can, pleafe when pleafure-is required; but it is his peculiar power to aftoniih. He feems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that nature had bellowed upon him more bountifully than upon others ; the power of difplaying the vaft, illuminating... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1780 - 590 pagina’s
...learning, to throw ofF into his work the fpirit of fcience, unmingled with its groiTer parts. ' He feems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that Nature had bellowed upon him more bountifully than upon others ; the power of difplaying the vaft, illuminating... | |
 | 1780 - 596 pagina’s
...pleafe when pleafurc is required ; but it is his peculiar power to alloniih. ' He feems to have bern well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was thatNature had bellowed upon him more bountifully than upon others ; the power of difplaying the vaft,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 494 pagina’s
...it is his peculiar power to aftonifh. * Algarotti terms it gigantefca fullimita Mlitcniana. He feems to have been well acquainted. with his own genius, and to know what it was that Nature had beflowed upon him more bountifully than upon others j the power of difplaying the vaft, illuminating... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 498 pagina’s
...aftonifh. t * Algarotti tcnns \lgigattttfcafuUimita Miltoniana. Orig. Edit. VOL. II. M He He feems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that Nature had beftowed upon him more bountifully than upon others ; the power of difplaying the vaft, illuminating... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pagina’s
...loftinefs *. He can pleafe when pleafure is required; but it is his peculiar power to aftonifh. He feems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that Nature had beftowed upon him more bountifully than upon, others ; the power of difplaying the vaft, illuminating... | |
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He can please when pleasure is required; but it is his peculiar power to astonish. He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others; the power of displaying... 
