 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 482 pagina’s
...him more bountifully than upon -ethers; the power of difplaying the vaft, illuminating the fpJendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful; he therefore * Algarotti terms it glgantefca fulllmita Miltoniana. Dr. J. M 4 chofe chofe afubject on which too... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1807 - 402 pagina’s
...him more bountifully than upon others; the power of displaying; the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful. He therefore chose a subject, on which too much could not be slid ; on which he might tire bit fancy, without the... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pagina’s
...him more bountifully than upon where; the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful ; he therefore chose a subject on which too much could not be said, on which he might tire his fancy without tbe censure... | |
 | John Milton, Henry John Todd - 1809 - 414 pagina’s
...beftowed upon him more bountifully than upon others ; the power of difplayiug the vaft, illuminating the fplendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy,...and aggravating the dreadful: he therefore chofe a fubje6t on which too much could not be faid, on which he might tire his fancy without the cenfure of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pagina’s
...him more bountifully than upon others ; the pow( r of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful^ darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful; he therefore * Algarotti terms it gigantesca sublimiti. Miltonlana. Dr. J. chose chose a subject on which too much... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pagina’s
...more bountifully than upon ' others ; the power of displaying the vast, illuminat: ing the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful ; he therefore chose a subject on which too much could not be said ' on which he might tire his fancy without the... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1812 - 400 pagina’s
...bountifully tjhan upon others j the p(jw<«r of *' difplaying the vaft, illuminating the fplendid^ epforcifag the « awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful. " He therefore chofe a fubjea, on which too much cbuld' trot '« be faid ; on which he might tire his fancy,' withou't'thfe... | |
 | 1815 - 444 pagina’s
...him more bountifully than upon others; the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful ; he therefore chose a subject on which too mnch could not be said, on which he might tire his fancy without the cermure... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 pagina’s
...him more bountifully than upon others ; the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful ; he therefore chose a subject on which too much could not be said, on which.he might tire his fancy without the censure... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 466 pagina’s
...him more bountifully than upon others ; the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful ; he therefore chose a subject on which too much could not be said, on which he might tire his fancy without the censure... | |
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He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that Nature had... 
