 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 292 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 302 pages
...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... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1780 - 590 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...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... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...gigantic loftiness *. 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...bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others: the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the aweful, darkening the gloomy,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...gigantick loftiness B . 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...bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others; the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1802 - 414 pages
...daring fublimity of his genius.* It is a fubjeft for which Milton alone was fitt.ed ; and' * " He feems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to " know what it was that nature had bcftowed upon him mori bountifully than " upon others; the power of displaying the vaft, illuminating... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...gigantick loftiness *. He can please when pleasure is required j but it is his peculiar power to astonish. He seems to have been well acquainted with his own...bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others; the power of display ing the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 322 pages
...He can please when pleasure is required, but it is his peculiar power to astonish. " He seems to be well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what...Nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others—the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 336 pages
...gigantick loftiness *. 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...bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others; the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful,darken- • ing the... | |
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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. 
