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" The characteristic quality of his poem is sublimity. He sometimes descends to the elegant, but his element is the great. He can occasionally invest himself with grace; but his natural port is gigantic loftiness. He can please when pleasure is required;... "
The Polytechnic Journal - Page 441
1840
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Paradise Lost: With Notes, Selected from Newton and Others, to ..., Volumes 1-2

John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...unrestrained indulgence ; and his conceptions therefore were extensive. The characteristic quality of his Poem is sublimity. He sometimes descends to the elegant...occasionally invest himself with grace ; but his natural port is gigantic loftiness *. He can please when pleasure is required; but it is his peculiar power...
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The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for ...

History - 1796 - 692 pages
...therefore were extenfive. The charafteriftick quality of his poem is fublimity. He fometimes defcends to the elegant, but his element is .the great. He ' can occasionally invert himfelf with grace ; but his natural pert is gigantick loftinefs*. He can pleafe when pleafure...
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Lives

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...his conceptions therefore were extensive. The characteristic k quality of his poem h sublimity. Ho sometimes descends to the elegant, but his element...occasionally invest himself with grace ; but his natural port is gigantick loftiness B. He can please when pleasure is required; but it is his peculiar power...
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The works of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland. With prefaces ..., Volume 1

Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...unrestrained indulgence, and his conceptions therefore were extensive. The characteristick quality of his poem is sublimity. He sometimes descends to the elegant^...occasionally invest himself with grace ; but his natural port is gigantick loftiness *. He can please when pleasure is required j but it is his peculiar power...
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The Lives of the Most Celebrated English Poets, with Criticisms. Extracted ...

Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 322 pages
...performance, the second among the productions of the human mind. " The characteristic quality of his poem is sublimity. He sometimes descends to the elegant,...occasionally invest himself with grace, but his natural port is gigantic loftiness. He can please when pleasure is required, but it is his peculiar power to...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 336 pages
...unrestrained indulgence, and his conceptions therefore were extensive. The characteristick quality of his poem is sublimity. He sometimes descends to the elegant,...occasionally invest himself with grace ; but his natural port is gigantick loftiness *. He can please when .pleasure is required; but it is his peculiar power...
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The poetical works of John Milton, with the life of the author ..., Volumes 1-2

John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...unrestrained indulgence, and his conceptions therefore were extensive. The characteristic quality of his poem is sublimity. He sometimes descends to the elegant,...occasionally invest himself with grace ; but his natural port is gigantic loftiness*. He can please when pleasure is required ; but it is his peculiar power...
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Cowley, Denham, Milton

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...unrestrained indulgence, and his conceptions therefore were extensive. The characteristic quality of his poem is sublimity. He sometimes descends to the elegant,...occasionally invest himself with grace; but his natural port is gigantic loftiness10. He can please when pleasure is required; but it is his peculiar power...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and ..., Volume 9

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...unrestrained indulgence, and his conceptions therefore were extensive. The characteristick quality of his poem is sublimity. He sometimes descends to the elegant,...occasionally invest himself with grace ; but his natural port is gigantick loftiness *. He can please when pleasure is required ; but it is his peculiar power...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...indulgence, <• and h'is conceptions therefore were extensive. The ' chaiacteristick quality of his poem is sublimity. He sometimes descends to the elegant,...occasionally invest himself : with grace; but his natural port is gigantick loftiness.* He can please when pleasure is required ; but { it is his peculiar power...
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