 | John Milton - 1852 - 858 pages
...strength and beauty without having recourse to these foreign assistances. Our language sunk under him, and was unequal to that greatness of soul which furnished...conceptions. A second fault in his language is, that he often aflecU sono molli di troppo sottili , ed altri elie degenerano anco in bassezze. .Mira maceliia ehe... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1853 - 544 pages
...and beauty, without having recourse to these foreign assistances. Our language sunk under him, and was unequal to that greatness of soul which furnished...This tempted our attempt At one slight bound high overleaps all bound.' I know there are figures for this kind of speech ; that some of the greatest... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 566 pages
...and beauty, without having recourse to these foreign assistances. Our language sunk under him, and was unequal to that greatness of soul which furnished...in his language is, that he often affects a kind of gingle in his words, as in the following passages ana many others: And brought into the world a world... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 1118 pages
...foreign assistances. Our language sounder him, and was unequal to that greatness of soul which i.' nished him with such glorious conceptions. A second fault in his language is, that he often affects ai of jingle in his words, as in the following passages, and UB-' others. — " And brought into the... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 698 pages
...and beauty, without having recourse to these foreign assistances. Our language sunk under him, and was unequal to that greatness of soul which furnished...tempted our attempt At one slight bound high over-leapt all bound. I know there are figures for this kind of speech, that some of the greatest ancients have... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 726 pages
...these foreign assistances. Our language sunk under him, and was unequal to 66 SPECTATOR. [No- *9*. that greatness of soul which furnished him with such...passages, and many others :. And brought into the world a tcorld of woe. Begirt th' Almighty throne Beseeching or besicging This templed our attempt At one slight... | |
 | William Barnes - 1854 - 362 pages
...formed from its own roots are given up for borrowed ones. Addison says of root-matching by Milton : "A second fault in his language is, that he often...words, as in the following passages and many others : That brought into this world a world of woe, I know there are figures for this kind of speech, that... | |
 | 1854 - 630 pages
...and beauty, without having recourse to these foreign assistances. Our language sunk under him, and was unequal to that greatness of soul which furnished...fault in his language is, that he often affects a Mud of jingle in his words, as in the following passages, and many others. — " And brought into the... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 710 pages
...to these foreign assistances. Our language sunk under him, and was unequal to 66 SPECTATOR. [No. 297 that greatness of soul which furnished him with such....conceptions. A second fault in his language is, that he often affeets a kind of jingle in his words, as in the following passages, and many others : And brought... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1854 - 630 pages
...without having recourse to these foreign assistances. " Our language," he continues, "sunk under him, and was unequal to that greatness of soul which furnished him with such glorious conceptions." Johnson (p. 179) is rather hard upon Milton in this respect: " The truth is," he says, " that both... | |
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Milton's sentiments and ideas were so wonderfully sublime, that it would have been impossible for him to have represented them in their full strength and beauty, without having recourse to these foreign assistances. Our language sunk under him, and was... 
