 | 1796 - 690 oldal
...illuminating the fplendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the floomy, and aggravating the readral: he therefore chofe a fubjeft on which too much could...faid, on which he might tire his fancy without the cenfme of extravagance. The appearances of nature, and the occurrences of life, did not fatiate his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 302 oldal
...forcing the awful, darkening thegloomy, and aggravating the dreadful: he therefpre chofe a fubject on which too much could not be. faid, on which he...tire his fancy without the cenfure of extravagance. The appearances of nature, and the .occurrences. of life, did not fatiate his appetite of greatnefs.... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1779 - 510 oldal
...bellowed upon him more bountifully than upon others; the power of difplaying the vaft, illuminating the fplendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful : he therefore choie a fubjeir. on which too much could not be faid, on which he might tire his fancy without the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 280 oldal
...the fplendid, enij * Algarotti terras it gigantefca futtimita Miltott!a>ia. a&S: MIL TO N. forcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful : he therefore chofe a fubjedl on which too much •could not be faid, on which- he might tire his fancy without the cenfure... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1780 - 726 oldal
...bellowed upon him more bountifully than upon others ; the power of difplaying the vaft, illuminating the fplendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy,...aggravating the dreadful : , he therefore chofe a fiibjeft on which too much could not be faid, on which he might tire his fancy without the cenfure... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1780 - 590 oldal
...him more bountifully than upon others ; the power of difplaying the vaft, illuminating the fplcndid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful: he therefore chofe a fubjed on which too much could not be faid, on which be might tire bis fancy without the cenfure of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 494 oldal
...beflowed upon him more bountifully than upon others j the power of difplaying the vaft, illuminating the fplendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy,...and aggravating the dreadful : he therefore chofe a fubject on which too much could not be faid, on which he might tire his fancy Without the cenfure of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 498 oldal
...bountifully than upon others ; the power of difplaying the vaft, illuminating the fplendid, enforcing trje awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful : he therefore chofe a fubject on which too much could not be faid, on which he might tire his fancy without the cenfure of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 498 oldal
...beftowed upon him more bountifully than upon others ; the power of difplaying the vaft, illuminating the fplendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy,...and aggravating the dreadful : he therefore chofe a fubjcct on which too much could not be faid, on which he might tire his fancy without the cenfure of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 oldal
...bellowed upon him more bountifully than upon others ; the power of difplaying the vaft, illuminating the fplendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful : he therefore t;hpfe a fubject on which too much could not be faid^ on which he might tire his fancy without the... | |
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He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that Nature had... 
