| History - 1796 - 690 pages
...The appearances of nature, and the occurrences of life, did not fatiate his appetite of greatnefs. To paint things as' they are, requires a minute attention, and employs the memory tather than the fancy. Milton's delight was to fport in the wide regions of poffibility ; reality was... | |
| Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1779 - 510 pages
...The appearances of nature, and the occurrences of life, , .did not fatiate his appetite of greatnefs. To paint things as .they are, requires a minute attention,...memory rather than the fancy. Milton's delight was to fport in the .wide regions of poffibility ; reality was a fcene too narrow for his mind. He fent his... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 302 pages
...The appearances of nature, and the .occurrences. of life, did not fatiate his appetite of greatnefs. To paint things as they are,. requires a. minute attention,...memory rather than the fancy. Milton's delight was to fport in the wade regions of poffibility; reality was a fcene too narrow for his mind. He fe.nt his... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1780 - 590 pages
...The appearances of nature, and the occurrences of life, did not fatiatc his appetite of greatnefs. To paint things as they are, requires a minute attention,...memory rather than the fancy. Milton's delight was to fport in the wide regions of poffibility ; reality was a fcene too narrow, for his mind. He fent his... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1780 - 590 pages
...The appearances of nature, and the occurrences of life, did not fatiatc his appetite of greatnefs. To paint things as they are, requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy. Mikoii'a delight was to fport in the wide regions of poffibility ; reality was a fcene too narrow,... | |
| Books - 1780 - 596 pages
...occurrences of life, did not fatiate his appetite of greacnefs. To paint things as they are, re' quires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy. ' Milton's delight was to fporl in the wide regions of poflibility ; reality was a fcene too narrow for his mind. He fent his... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1780 - 726 pages
...occurrences of life, did not fatiate his appetite of greatnefs. To paint things as they are, re- ' quires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy. Milton's delight was te . fport in the wide regions of poflibility; reality was a fcene too narrow for his mind. He fent... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 494 pages
...The appearances of nature, and the occurrences of life!, did not fariate his appetite of greatnefs, To paint things as they are, requires a minute attention,...memory rather than the fancy. Milton's delight was to fport in the wide regions of pof£bility ; reality was a fc6ne too narrow for his mind. He fent his... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1783 - 478 pages
...occurrences of life, did not fatiate his appetite of greatnefs. To paint things as they are, re*• quires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy. Milton's delight was to Iport in the wide regions of pofiibility; reality was a fcene too narrow for. his mind. He fent his... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 498 pages
...The appearances of nature, and the occurrences of life, did not fatiate his appetite of greatnefs. To paint things as they are, requires a minute attention,...memory rather than the fancy. Milton's delight was to fport in the wide regions of poffibility ; reality was a fcenc too narrow for his mind. He fent his... | |
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