 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 476 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... | |
 | 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
...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 lie might tire his fancy without the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 430 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 * Algarott tertas Itgi?antesca sublimilA Miltoniana.—Drr... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1833 - 654 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1833 - 438 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 bii said; on which he might tire his fancy without the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...him more bountifully than upon others ; the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, d. Domestic virtue, as it is exerted without great occasions, or conspicuous consequen chose a subject on which too much could not be said, on which ho might tire his fancy without the censure... | |
 | Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - 1838 - 692 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 pages
...him more bountifully than upon others; the power of displaying the vast, illnminating 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... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 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... 
