 | 1796 - 690 sidor
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 280 sidor
...loftinefs*.. He can 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 it was that Nature had beftowed upon him more bountifully than upon others; the power of difplaying the vaft, illuminating... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1779 - 510 sidor
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 292 sidor
...loftinefs *. He can 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 it was that Nature had beftowed upon him more bountifully than upon others ; the power of difplaying the vaft, illuminating... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1780 - 590 sidor
...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... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1780 - 590 sidor
...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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1780 - 726 sidor
...him (inpre bountifully than upon others; the power of difplaying the vaft, illuminating the fplendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful :,. he therefore chofe a fiibjeft on which too much could not be faid, on which he might fire his fancy without the... | |
 | 1780 - 596 sidor
...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, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 sidor
....peculiar power to aftonifh. * Algarotti terms \lgigantifca futlimita Uilt<m!a*a. Orig. Edit. He feems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that Nature had beftowed upon him more bountifully than upon others ; the power of difplayirg the vaft, illuminating... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 sidor
...him more bountifully than upon others ; the power of difplaying the vaft, illuminating the fplendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful : he therefore t;hpfe a fubject on which too much could not be faid^ on which he might tire his fancy without the... | |
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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,... 
