 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,...  Poetical Works: Biography of Milton - Page 220by John Milton - 1835Full view - About this book
 | English syntax - 1873 - 104 pages
...each other. The genius of the language was much altered, and the people had become very different. He seems to have been well acquainted with his own...bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others. If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them is gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine, and... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1873 - 202 pages
...of the New Testament. 214. The Duke had not behaved with that loyalty as was expected. 215. Milton seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius,...bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others. 216. He only promised me a loan of the book for two days. 217. I was once intendingto have written... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1881 - 510 pages
...gigantic loftiness. He can please when pleasure is required; but it is his peculiar power to astonish. " He seems to have been well acquainted with his own...nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others—the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1881 - 570 pages
...is his peculiar power to astonish, ryHe seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, /nd to know what it was that Nature had bestowed upon...bountifully than upon others ; the power of displaying I the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, I darkening the gloomy, and aggravating... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - American literature - 1882 - 1192 pages
...can please when pleasure i« required: but it is hi« peculiar power to astonish. He Kevin H to havo been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it wo* that nature had bwtowed upon him more bountifully than others. — the power of displaying the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1892 - 180 pages
...gigantick loftiness.1 He can please when pleasure is required ; but it is his peculiar power to astonish. He seems to have been well acquainted with his own...him more bountifully than upon others ; the power of 1 Algarotti terms it gigantesca sublimihi MiUoniana. displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1894 - 196 pages
...gigantick loftiness. He can please when pleasure is required ; but it is his peculiar power to astonish. He seems to have been well acquainted with his own...of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforc- 30 ing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful: he therefore chose a... | |
 | William Lennie - English language - 1894 - 272 pages
...use of it,19 shalt thou imitate. The Duke had not behaved with such® loyalty as was expected. Milton seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to have known?3 what it was that nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others. John... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - English poetry - 1900 - 318 pages
...gigantic loftiness.1 He can please when pleasure is required, but it is his 15 peculiar power to astonish. He seems to have been well acquainted with his own...the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the 20 splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful. He therefore... | |
 | Literature - 1901 - 628 pages
...gigantic loftiness. He can please when pleasure is required ; but it is his peculiar power to astonish. He seems to have been well acquainted with his own...splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and iiggravating the dreadful: he therefore chose a subject on which too much could not be said, on which... | |
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