 | Johnson Club (London, England) - 1920 - 246 pages
...Pope," writes Johnson, " to rate himself at his real value " * : and Milton seems to him " 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." 3 Johnson,too,had that self-confidence which,... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 438 pages
...power to astonish. 1 " Algarotti terms it gigantesca Sublimitd, Miltoniana." " 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... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 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... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 500 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... | |
 | Tim Fulford - 1996 - 274 pages
...itself a gift of nature, which made Milton a personification of its sublime power: 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... | |
 | Angus Fletcher - 2007 - 204 pages
...we can pull back to the more general description given by Dr. Johnson: [Milton] 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 - 1820 - 534 pages
...chosen, suited the daring sublimity of his genius.* It is a subject for .* '' He seems to have been well acquainted with his own " genius, and to know what it was that nature had bestowed upon •which Milton alone was fitted ; and in the conduct of it, he has shown a stretch both... | |
 | London univ - 1874 - 778 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... | |
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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,... 
