Date: 1779, 1781
"Still, however, it is the work of Cowley, of a mind capacious by nature, and replenished by study."
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Date: 1779, 1781
"Thus, comparing the shield of Satan to the orb of the Moon, he crowds the imagination with the discovery of the telescope and all the wonders which the telescope discovers"
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1779, 1781
"Whatever be his subject he never fails to fill the imagination."
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Date: 1784
"And hence it will follow, that with the foregoing exceptions, we may, among Europeans, bring genius to actual admeasurement, and determine its degrees by the size of the possessor's head, just as an exciseman gauges a beer barrel."
preview | full record— Ramsay, James (1733-1789)