 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1858 - 610 pages
...botanical and nursery-garden poets, this sentence of Dr. Johnson : " The heat of Milton's mind might be said to sublimate his learning, to throw off into...spirit of science, unmingled with its grosser parts." Flowery ladies and gentlemen, apply this to your botany. And finally, to conclude all that we can find... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 pages
...materials were supplied by incessant study and ultimate curiosity. The heat of Milton's mind may be said to sublimate his learning, to throw off into...science, unmingled with its grosser parts. ... He can please when pleasure is required ; but it is his peculiar power to astonish. . . . The want of... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 438 pages
...materials were supplied by incessant study and unlimited curiosity. The heat of Milton's mind might be said to sublimate his learning, to throw off into...and his conceptions therefore were extensive. The characteristic quality of his poem is sublimity. He sometimes descends to the elegant, but his element... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 pages
...imagination to unrestrained indulgence, and his conceptions therefore were extensive. The characteristic quality of his poem is sublimity. He sometimes descends...the elegant, but his element is the great. He can occasionally invest himself with grace ; but his natural port is gigantic loftiness.1 He can please... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 500 pages
...materials were supplied by incessant study and unlimited curiosity. The heat of Milton's mind might be said to sublimate his learning, to throw off into...and his conceptions therefore were extensive. The charactcristick quality of his poem is sublimity. He sometimes descends to the elegant, but his element... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 pages
...seriousness which comes upon his mind when filled by the "mens dwinior" "The heat of Milton's mind might be said to sublimate his learning, to throw off into...spirit of science, unmingled with its grosser parts" (I, 177). The movement of the "Life of Milton" from Milton's personal characteristics to the manifestation... | |
 | John L. Mahoney - 1998 - 388 pages
...for Johnson the presence of certain qualities, and the relative absence of others, in Milton's poem: The characteristick quality of his poem is sublimity....the elegant, but his element is the great. He can occasionally invest himself with grace; but his natural port is gigantick loftiness. He can please... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 2002 - 238 pages
...greater seriousness when his mind is filled by the "mens divinior": "The heat of Milton's mind might be said to sublimate his learning, to throw off into...spirit of science, unmingled with its grosser parts" (para. 229). Appropriating the rich image of Milton's being made pregnant by the Muse, as the "vast... | |
 | John T. Lynch - 2003 - 244 pages
...materials were supplied by incessant study and unlimited curiosity. The heat of Milton's mind might be said to sublimate his learning, to throw off into...spirit of science, unmingled with its grosser parts . . . The characteristick quality of his poem is sublimity."3'* It may seem that readings of Milton... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 530 pages
...returned by Adam, may be confidently opposed to any rule of life which any poet has delivered. Jhrow off into his work the spirit of science, unmingled...and his conceptions therefore were extensive. The characteristic quality of his poem is sublimity. He sometimes descends to the elegant, but his clement... | |
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The thoughts which are occasionally called forth in the progress, are such as could only be produced by an imagination in the highest degree fervid and active, to which materials were supplied by incessant study and unlimited curiosity. The heat of Milton's... 
