 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,...  Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres - Página 266por Hugh Blair - 1809Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 524 páginas
...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 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 486 páginas
...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 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 páginas
...sullu/uia MUtonituia, please when pleasure 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 had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others ; the power of displaying the vast, illuminating... | |
 | Charles Butler - 1819 - 342 páginas
...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 genius, and to know, what it was that nature bestowed on him, more bountifully than upon others ; the power of displaying the vast, illuminating... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 476 páginas
...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 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 466 páginas
...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 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... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 302 páginas
...loftiness 16. 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 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... | |
 | Charles Butler - 1824 - 368 páginas
...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 genius, and to know, what it was that nature bestowed on him, more bountifully than upon others ; the power of displaying the vast, illuminating... | |
 | Charles Butler - 1824 - 476 páginas
...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 genius, " and to know, what it was that nature bestowed on him, " more bountifully than upon others ; the power of dis" playing the vast, illuminating... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 páginas
...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 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... | |
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