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 4411840Full view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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