 | 1901 - 548 sayfa
...illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful. Milton's delight was to sport in the wide regions...possibility ; reality was a scene too narrow for his mind. With entirely praiseworthy justice and perspicacity, Johnson fixes on the illimitable scope, the universality... | |
 | Janet Sternburg - 1980 - 240 sayfa
...a single glint as it is, say, in Milton's cosmological eye? "Milton's delight," notes Dr. Johnson, "was to sport in the wide regions of possibility; reality was a scene too narrow for his mind." Milton could say "All Hell broke loose" because he knew where (and what) Hell was; he had sent his... | |
 | John Barrell - 1995 - 384 sayfa
...more moderate. 19. Compare Johnson on Milton, Lives 1: 123, whose 'delight' it was, as an epic poet, to 'sport in the wide regions of possibility; reality was a scene too narrow for his mind'. 20. Quotations from Fuseli's review of Reynolds's last discourse. Analytical Review, May 1791 , 5,... | |
 | Seamus Perry - 1999 - 330 sayfa
...Milton is curiously at home with his divine material ('a subject for which Milton alone was fitted').13 'The appearances of nature and the occurrences of...than the fancy. Milton's delight was to sport in the vvide regions of possibility; reality was a scene too narrow for his mind,' writes Johnson, admiringly... | |
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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 of possibility t reality was a scene too narrow for his mind. 
