 | Samuel Johnson - Great Britain - 1825 - 512 pages
...much could not be said, on which he might tire his fancy, without the censure of extravagance. _-, ' The appearances of nature, and the occurrences of...sent his faculties out upon discovery, into worlds where only imagination can travel, and delighted to form new modes of existence, and furnish sentiment... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Great Britain - 1825 - 508 pages
...censure of extravagance. The appearances of nature, and the occurrences of life, did not satiate bis appetite of greatness. To paint things as they are...sent his faculties out upon discovery, into worlds where only imagination can travel, and delighted to form new modes of existence, and furnish sentiment... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1826 - 430 pages
...not be said, on which he might tire his fancy without the censure of extravagance. * The appearance of nature, and the occurrences of life, did not satiate...attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy. Mtlton's delight was to sport in the wide regions of possihility ; reality was a scene too narrow for... | |
 | John Milton - 1833 - 438 pages
...not bii said; on which he might tire his fancy without the censure of extravagance. « The appearance of nature, and the occurrences of life, did not satiate...sent his faculties out upon discovery into worlds where only imagination can travel, and delighted to form new modes of existence, and furnish sentiment... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1835 - 476 pages
...therefore chose a subject on which too much could not be said, on which he might tire his fancy withoul the censure of extravagance. The appearances of nature,...sent his faculties out upon discovery, into worlds where only imagination can travel, and delighted to form new modes of existence, and furnisb sentiment... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 350 pages
...the following :—"The appearances of nature, and the occurrences of life, did not satiate Milton's appetite of greatness. To paint things as they are...sent his faculties out upon discovery into worlds where only imagination can travel, and delighted to form new modes of existence, and furnish sentiment... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1840 - 522 pages
...aggravating the dreadful ; he therefore chose a subject on which too much could not be said, on which he might tire his fancy without the censure of extravagance....wide regions of possibility ; reality was a scene loo narrow for his mind. He sent his faculties out upon discovery, into worlds where only imagination... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 716 pages
...too much could not be said, on which he might tire his fancy without the censure of ex travagance. (says he) neither ornament, epitaph, nor inscription,...monuments ; obelisks have their term, and pyramids bis mind. He sent his faculties out upon discovery, into worlds where only imagination can travel,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 718 pages
...and the occurrences of life, did not satiate his appetite of greatness. To paint things as they arc, i- -. i supplied by incessant study and unlimited...science, unmingled with its grosser parts. He had discoverv, into worlds where only imagination can travel, and delighted to form new modes of existence,... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...aggravating the dreadful : he therefore chose a subject on which too much could not be said; on which he might tire his fancy without the censure of extravagance....sent his faculties out upon discovery, into worlds where only imagination can travel ; and delighted to form new modes of existence, and furnish sentiment... | |
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The appearances of nature, and the occurrences of life, did not satiate his appetite of greatness. To paint things as they are, requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy. Milton's delight was to sport in the wide regions... 
