| Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 484 Seiten
...materials were supplied by incessant study and unlimited curiosity. The heat of Milton's mind may be said to sublimate his learning, to throw off into...the elegant, but his element is the great. He can occasionally invest himself with grace ; but his natural port is gigantick loftiness*. He can please... | |
| Charles Butler - 1824 - 368 Seiten
...by doctor Johnson of Milton, apply to Handel. The doctor says of Milton, that " the characteristic quality of his poem is sublimity. He sometimes descends...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,... | |
| Charles Butler - 1824 - 430 Seiten
...by doctor Johnson of Milton, apply to Handel. The doctor says of Milton, that " the characteristic quality of " his poem is sublimity. He sometimes descends...the " elegant, but his element is the great. He can occa" sionally invest himself with grace, but his natural port " is gigantic loftiness. He can please,... | |
| George Walker - 1825 - 668 Seiten
...materials were supplied by incessant study and unlimited curiosity. The heat of Milton's mind may be said to sublimate his learning, to throw off into...and his conceptions therefore were extensive. The characteristic quality of his poem is sublimity. He sometimes descends to the elegant, but his element... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 Seiten
...materials were supplied by incessant study and unlimited curiosity. The heat of Milton's mind may be said to sublimate his learning, to throw off into...descriptions are, therefore, learned. He had accustomed bis imagination to unrestrained indulgence, and his conceptions, therefore, were extensive. The characteristick... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 506 Seiten
...materials were supplied by incessant study and unlimited curiosity. The heat of Milton's mind may be said to sublimate his learning, to throw off into...spirit of science, unmingled with its grosser parts. his imagination to unrestrained indulgence, and his conceptions, therefore, were extensive. The characteristick... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 430 Seiten
...materials were supplied by incessant stndy and unlimited cariosity. The heat of Milton's mind may be said to sublimate his learning, to throw off into his work the spirit of science, uamtngled with its grosser parts. . He had considered creation in its whole extent, and his descriptions... | |
| 1830 - 812 Seiten
...given by Dr. Johnson of Milton apply to Handel. The doctor said of Milton, thas " the characteristic quality of his poem is sublimity. He sometimes descends...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,... | |
| John Milton - 1833 - 438 Seiten
...materials were supplied by incessant study and unlimited curiosity. The heat of Milton's mind might be said to sublimate his learning, to throw off, into...science unmingled with its grosser parts. « He had ionsidered creation in its whole extent; his descriptions are therefore learned. lie had accustomed... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 722 Seiten
...materials were supplied by incessant study and unlimited curiosity. The heat of Milton's mind may be said to sublimate his learning, to throw off into...and his conceptions therefore were extensive. The characteristic quality of hispoem is sublimity. He sometimes descends to the elegant, but his element... | |
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