 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...please when pleasure is required ; but { it is his peculiar power to astonish. 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, illuminat:... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 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, illuminating the fplendid^... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1813 - 830 pages
...please when pleasure is required; but it is hb peculiar power to astonish. " 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 - 1815 - 582 pages
...Almighty himself, and to recount dialogues between the Father * " He seems to have been well acquiinted with his own genius, and to know what it was that nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully thsn upon others : the power of displaying the vast, illuminating... | |
 | 1815 - 444 pages
...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 - 1816 - 486 pages
...can please when pleasure is required} but it is his peculiar power to astonish. 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... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 524 pages
...please, when pleasure is required ; but it is his peculiar power, to astonish. " 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 pages
...please when pleasure is required ; but it is his peculiar power to astonish. 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... | |
 | Charles Butler - 1819 - 342 pages
...please, when pleasure is required ; but it is his peculiar power to astonish. He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know, what it was that nature bestowed on him, more bountifully than upon others ; the power of displaying the vast, illuminating... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 476 pages
...please when pleasure is required ; but it is his peculiar power to astonish. 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... | |
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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; the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy,... 
