 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 466 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... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 302 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... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1824 - 510 pages
...p«etry. The nature of the subject did not admit any great display of charac* " He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that nature Intil bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others : the power of delaying the vast, illuminating... | |
 | Charles Butler - 1824 - 368 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... | |
 | Charles Butler - 1824 - 372 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 - 1824 - 450 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 much could not be said, on which he might tire his fancy without the censure... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 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 - 1826 - 430 pages
...please when pleasure ia 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 bestowtid opon him more bountifully than upon others; the power of displaying the vast, illuminating... | |
 | John Milton - 1833 - 438 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... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1833 - 654 pages
...describe God Almighty himself, and to recount dialogues between the Father * " He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that nature had bestowei 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,... 
