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 the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy,... Reminiscences of Charles Butler ... - Page 386by Charles Butler - 1824Full view - About this book
| Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 482 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 -ethers; the power of difplaying the vaft, illuminating... | |
| John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...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...required ; but it is his peculiar power to astonish. * -\I:; .;--"iu term* \tfigantaca ntblimna Miltoniana. Dr. .'. He srems to have been well acquainted... | |
| John Milton, Henry John Todd - 1809 - 414 pages
...loftinefs*. He can pleafe when pleafure is required ; but it is his peculiar power to aftoni(h. 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 difplayiug the vaft, illuminating... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...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...his own genius, and to know what it was that Nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others ; the pow( r of displaying the vast, illuminating... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...great. He can occasionally invest himself with grace; but his natural port is gigantic loftiness10. He can please when pleasure is required; but it is...his own genius, and to know what it was that nature had bestowed upon him- mo re bountifully than upon others; the powers of displaying the vast, illuminating... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...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...his 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, illuminat:... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1811 - 420 pages
...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...his 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... | |
| Hugh Blair - English literature - 1811 - 400 pages
...how, from the few hints given us in the sacred Scriptures, he was able to raise so complete and * " 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 the vast, illuminating... | |
| Hugh Blair - English language - 1812 - 400 pages
...and* affects us as we proceed, which is always a fure teft of merit :in an * " He feems to have teen well acquainted 'with his 'own " genius, and to know what it was that nature had beftowed " upon him mope bountifully tjhan upon others j the p(jw<«r of *' difplaying the vaft,... | |
| John Mason Good - 1813 - 830 pages
...but his natural part is gigantic loftiness. He сзп please when pleasure is required; but it is hb peculiar power to astonish. " He seems to have been...his 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... | |
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