 | 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
...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... | |
 | Tim Fulford - 1996 - 274 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... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1820 - 534 pages
...more bountifully than upon others ; the power of display" ing 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... | |
 | 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... 
