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" He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that Nature had... "
Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal - Page 88
edited by - 1780
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The Annual Register, Volume 22

History - 1796 - 690 pages
...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...
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Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 302 pages
...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....
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The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 47

Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1779 - 510 pages
...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...
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Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 280 pages
...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...
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Annual Register, Volume 22

Edmund Burke - History - 1780 - 726 pages
...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...
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Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal, Volume 61

Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1780 - 590 pages
...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...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: Cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 494 pages
...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...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: Cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 498 pages
...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...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The lives of the most eminent English poets

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 498 pages
...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...
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The lives of the most eminent English poets

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...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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