 | John Milton - 1852 - 858 pages
...him more bountifully than upon others . the power of displaying the vast, iltuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful ; he therefore chose a subject on which too much could no be said; on which he might tire his fancy without the censure... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 pages
...more bountifully than upon others,— the powers 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 - 1855 - 900 pages
...more bountifully than upon others, — tie 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 eaid; on which he might tire his fancy without the censure... | |
 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 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... | |
 | English dictation - 1881 - 156 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 - 1892 - 180 pages
...Algarotti terms it gigantesca sublimihi MiUoniana. 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... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1893 - 312 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... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne, George Henry Warner - 1897 - 644 pages
...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, John Wight Duff - 1900 - 318 pages
...more bountifully than upon others, — the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the 20 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 - 1907 - 172 pages
...more bountifully than upon others—the power of i0 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... 
