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" The characteristick quality of his poem is sublimity. He sometimes descends to the elegant, but his element is the great. He can occasionally invest himself with grace ; but his natural port is gigantick loftiness *. He can please when .pleasure is required;... "
The life of Fenelon, archbishop of Cambray. To which are added, The lives of ... - Pagina 262
door Charles Butler - 1819 - 316 pagina’s
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Paradise Lost: With Notes, Selected from Newton and Others, to ..., Volumes 1-2

John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pagina’s
...accustomed his imagination to unrestrained indulgence ; and his conceptions therefore were extensive. The characteristic quality of his Poem is sublimity....required; but it is his peculiar power to astonish. Algarotti terms it "gigantesca sublimita Miltoniana." VOL. I. i " He seems to have been well acquainted...
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The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for ...

1796 - 692 pagina’s
...therefore were extenfive. The charafteriftick quality of his poem is fublimity. He fometimes defcends to the elegant, but his element is .the great. He ' can occasionally invert himfelf with grace ; but his natural pert is gigantick loftinefs*. He can pleafe when pleafure...
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Lives

Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pagina’s
...his conceptions therefore were extensive. The characteristic k quality of his poem h sublimity. Ho sometimes descends to the elegant, but his element...invest himself with grace ; but his natural port is gigantick loftiness B. He can please when pleasure is required; but it is his peculiar power to astonish....
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The works of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland. With prefaces ..., Volume 1

Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pagina’s
...imagination to unrestrained indulgence, and his conceptions therefore were extensive. The characteristick quality of his poem is sublimity. He sometimes descends...invest himself with grace ; but his natural port is gigantick loftiness *. He can please when pleasure is required j but it is his peculiar power to astonish....
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 pagina’s
...imagination to unrestrained indulgence, and his conceptions therefore were extensive. The characteristick quality of his poem is sublimity. He sometimes descends...invest himself with grace ; but his natural port is gigantick loftiness *. He can please when .pleasure is required; but it is his peculiar power to astonish....
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The poetical works of John Milton, with the life of the author ..., Volumes 1-2

John Milton - 1807 - 514 pagina’s
...accustomed his imagination to unrestrained indulgence, and his conceptions therefore were extensive. The characteristic quality of his poem is sublimity....required ; but it is his peculiar power to astonish. * -\I:; .;--"iu term* \tfigantaca ntblimna Miltoniana. Dr. .'. He srems to have been well acquainted...
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Cowley, Denham, Milton

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pagina’s
...accustomed his imagination to unrestrained indulgence, and his conceptions therefore were extensive. The characteristic quality of his poem is sublimity....himself with grace; but his natural port is gigantic loftiness10. He can please when pleasure is required; but it is his peculiar power to astonish. He...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and ..., Volume 9

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pagina’s
...imagination to unrestrained indulgence, and his conceptions therefore were extensive. The characteristick quality of his poem is sublimity. He sometimes descends...invest himself with grace ; but his natural port is gigantick loftiness *. He can please when pleasure is required ; but it is his peculiar power to astonish....
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pagina’s
...unrestrained indulgence, <• and h'is conceptions therefore were extensive. The ' chaiacteristick quality of his poem is sublimity. He sometimes descends...invest himself : with grace; but his natural port is gigantick loftiness.* He can please when pleasure is required ; but { it is his peculiar power to astonish....
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on ...

Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pagina’s
...conceptions therefore were extensive. The characteristick quality of his poem is sublimity. He semetimes descends to the elegant, but his element is the great....invest himself with grace ; but his natural port is gigantick loftiness.* He can please when pleasure is required ; but it is his peculiar power to astonish....
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