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,... Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres - Página 266por Hugh Blair - 1809Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1796 - 690 páginas
...gigantick loftinefs*. He can 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... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1779 - 510 páginas
...loftinefs. He 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 páginas
...his learning, to throw 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... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1780 - 726 páginas
...gigantick loftinefs*. He 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 páginas
...learning, to throw 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... | |
| 1780 - 596 páginas
...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 - 494 páginas
...required ; but it is his 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 páginas
...j but it is his peculiar power td aftoiiifh. Aljjarotu tcnns it giganttfia fuiUmita '" ,.".•"• He feems to have been well acquainted with his own...Nature had beftowed upon him more bountifully than vipon others ; the power of displaying the vaft, illuminating the fplendid, enforcing the awful, darkening... | |
| 1796 - 692 páginas
...loftinefs*. He can pleafe when pleafure is required ; but it is his peculiar power to aftonifli. • 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... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 páginas
...peculiar power to astonish. Algarotti terms it "gigantesca sublimita Miltoniana." VOL. I. i " 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... | |
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