...gigantic loftiness. He can please, when measure is required ; but it is his peculiar power to astonish. He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that Nature bestowed on him more bountifully than upon others ; the power of displaying the vast, illuminating...

...contemplating immortality, eternity, and creative power ; and capable (in the language extorted from Johnson) of " displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid,...darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful ; " and capable, we may add, of expanding those glimpses of spiritual happiness, vouchsafed in holy...

...it is bis peculiar power to astonish. * Alfrarotti term* it gigantesca svblimita Miltoniana. Da,. J. He seems to have been well acquainted with his own...than upon others; the power of displaying the vast, illnminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful...

...gigantic loftiness.* He caí please when pleasure is required ; but it is his peculiar power to astonish. J; Zx E [ t* 3E ^I +l2lz Z \ X r ͔T[j ˩k *hat it was thnt Nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others ; the power of displaying...

...lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself. The duke had not behaved with that loyalty as was expected. Milton seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius,...bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others. 24. And on the morrow, because he would have known the certainty wherefore he was accused f by the...

...some measure be compassed, I refuse not to sustain this expectation." Johnson observes of Milton, that he seems to have been well acquainted with his own...darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful. And Cowper, when speaking of the style of this great poet, remarks with great truth, "that he is never...

...attempt to describe God Almighty himself, and to recount dialogues between the Father * " He MM-iu-i to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know whai it wan that nature had bcstnwe J upon him more bountifully than upon others : the po» er of displaying...

...set hy himself. The duke had not hehaved with that loyalty as was expected. Milton seems to have heen well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that nature had hestowed upon him more hountifully than upon others. 24. And on the morrow, hecause he would have known...

...lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself. The duke had not behaved with that loyalty as was expected. Milton seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius,...bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others. 24. And on the morrow, because he would have known the certainty wherefore he was accused! of the Jews,...

...aequainted with hia own genins ; and to know what it wns that nature had hestowed upon him more hountifully than upon others, — the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforeing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful : he therefore ehose a suhjeet...