 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 722 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 awful, darkening the gloomy,... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 350 pages
...constitution of his poem." Johnson follows in the same steps, and begins almost in the same words :—" 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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 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 tho vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1838 - 716 pages
...answer returned by Adam, may be confidently opposed to any rule of life which any poet has delivered. 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,... | |
 | Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - American essays - 1838 - 688 pages
...loftiness. He can please when pleasure is required; but it is his peculiar power to astonish." He adds ; " 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,... | |
 | William Angus (A.M.) - 1839 - 216 pages
...different. 12. Though he had directed the planning of the whole, and went over the several parts, and been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know...bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others. 14. If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them is gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1839 - 702 pages
...those eloquent speeches which they make in the • " He seems to have been well acquainted with liis own genius, and to know what it was that nature had...bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others: the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy,... | |
 | John Milton - 1842 - 980 pages
...of his poem." Johnson follows in the same steps, and begins almost in the same words :—" He f*ms to have been well acquainted with his own genius ;...nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others,—the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1828 - 802 pages
...is excel"Milton," says the Doctor, in anotherpl«co, " seems to have been well acquainted with hi» own genius, and to know what it was that nature had bestowed on him more than others ; the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, darkening the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 718 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 awful, darkening the gloomy,... | |
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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. 
