 | 1796 - 690 pages
...pleafe when pleafure is required ; but it is His peculiar power to aftonilh. He feems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that nature had bellowed upon him more bountifully than upon others; the power of difplaying the vaft, illuminating... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 280 pages
...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...of difplaying the vaft, illuminating the fplendid, enij * Algarotti terras it gigantefca futtimita Miltott!a>ia. a&S: MIL TO N. forcing the awful, darkening... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1779 - 510 pages
...pleafe , when pleafure is required ; but it is his peculiar power to aftoniih. ' He feems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that nature had bellowed upon him more bountifully than upon others; the power of difplaying the vaft, illuminating... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1780 - 590 pages
...off into his work the fpirit of fcience, unmingled with its grofler parts. ' He fecms to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that Nature had bellowed upon him more bountifully than upon others ; the power of difplaying the vaft, illuminating... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1780 - 726 pages
...can, pleafe when pleafure-is required; but it is his peculiar power to aftoniih. He feems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that nature had bellowed upon him more bountifully than upon others ; the power of difplaying the vaft, illuminating... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1780 - 590 pages
...ofF into his work the fpirit of fcience, unmingled with its groiTer parts. ' He feems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that Nature had bellowed upon him more bountifully than upon others ; the power of difplaying the vaft, illuminating... | |
 | 1780 - 596 pages
...pleafe when pleafurc is required ; but it is his peculiar power to alloniih. ' He feems to have bern well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was thatNature had bellowed upon him more bountifully than upon others ; the power of difplaying the vaft,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 498 pages
...peculiar power to aftonifh. * Algarotti terms it gigantefca fuMimlta Mlltoniana. He feems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what...difplaying the vaft, illuminating the fplendid, enforcing trje awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful : he therefore chofe a fubject on which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 494 pages
...peculiar power to aftonifh. * Algarotti terms it gigantefca fullimita Mlitcniana. He feems to have been well acquainted. with his own genius, and to know what it was that Nature had beflowed upon him more bountifully than upon others j the power of difplaying the vaft, illuminating... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 478 pages
...peculiar power td aftoiiifh. Aljjarotu tcnns it giganttfia fuiUmita '" ,.".•"• He feems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what...Nature had beftowed upon him more bountifully than vipon others ; the power of displaying the vaft, illuminating the fplendid, enforcing the awful, darkening... | |
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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,... 
