 | John Milton - 1750 - 716 pages
...hundred times more obfoletc " and cramp than he, and equally " foin all places: Whereas it fhould " have been obferved of Milton " that he is not lavifh of his exotic " words and phrafes every where " alike, but employs them much " more where the fubjeft is mar" velous, vaft and ftrange,... | |
 | Virgil, Christopher Pitt, Joseph Warton - 1763 - 362 pages
...an hundred times more obfolete and cramp than he, and equally fo in all places : whereas it fhould have been obferved of Milton, that he is not lavifh...every-where alike; but employs them much more, where the fubjeft is marvellous, vaft, and ftrange, as in the fcenes of heaven, hell, and chaos, than where it... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 312 pages
...Ivlilton, like moft other imitators, are not copies but caricatura's of their original ; they are a hundred times more obfolete and cramp than .he, and...that he is not lavifh of his exotic words and phrafes every where alike, but employs them much more where the fubjeft is marvellous, vaft, and ftrange, ...... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 320 pages
...caricatura's of their original; they are a hundred times more obfolete.and cramp than he, and equally lo in all places : whereas it mould have been obferved of Milton, that he is not lavilh of his exotic words and phrafes every where alike, but employs them much more where the lul:jccl... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 308 pages
...more obfolete and cramp than he, and equally fo in all places : whereas it fliould have been obierved of Milton, that he is not lavifh of his exotic words and phrafes every where alike, but employs them much more where the fubjeft is marvellous, vaft, and ftrange, as... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 304 pages
...imitators, are not copies but caricaturas of their original ; they are a hundred times more obfofcte and cramp than he, and equally fo in all places : whereas it fhould have been obferved of Milton, that he is not lavifh of his exotic words and phrafes every where... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 902 pages
...of Milton, like molt other imitators, are not copies but caricaturas of their original ; they are a hundred times more obfolete and cramp than he, and...mould have been obferved of Milton, that he is not lavilh of his exotic words and phrafet every where alike, but employs them much more where the fubject... | |
 | Homer - 1796 - 350 pages
...Milton, like moft other imitators, are not copies but caricaturas of their original •, they are a hundred times more obfolete and cramp than he, and equally fo in all places : whereas it ihould have been oblerved of Milton, that he is not lavifh qf his exotick words and phrafes every where... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1797 - 472 pages
...of Milton, like moft other imitators, are not copies, but caricaturas of their original ; they are a hundred times more obfolete and cramp than he, and equally fo in all places : whereas it fhould have been obferved of Milton, that he is not lavifh of his exotic words and phrafes every where... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 504 pages
...of Milton, like moft other imitators, are not copies, but caricaturas of their original ; they are a hundred times more obfolete and cramp than he, and...that he is not lavifh of his exotic words and phrafes every where alike, but employs' them much more where the fubject is marvellous, vafl and ftrange, as... | |
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No man man delights in furrows and ftumbling-blocks : and let our love to antiquity be ever fo great, a fine ruin is one thing, and a heap of rubbifh another. The imitators of Milton, like moft other imitators, are not copies, but caricaturas of their... 