 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 pages
...tranfcription, without imitation. He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius j he looks round on Nature and on Life, with the eye which Nature beftows only on a poet ; the eye that diftinguifhes, in every thing prefented to its view, whatever... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 504 pages
...without tranfcription, without imitation. He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always asiariian of genius ; he looks round on Nature and on Life, with the eye which Nature beftows ohlyorfti poet-; the eye that diftingufifhes, in every 'thing prefented to its view,- whatever... | |
 | James Thomson - 1793 - 300 pages
...of expressing his thoughts, is original. His blank verse is no more the blank verse of Milton, or 0f any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes...poet ; the eye that distinguishes, in every thing presented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained, and withamind... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pages
...though both by Arbuthnot, were commonly assigned to Swift, and are printed in his Works. ' 'Thomson thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as...only on a poet ; — the eye that distinguishes in everything presented to its view whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...though both by Arbuthnot, were commonly assigned to Swift, and are printed in his Works. ' ' Thomson thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as...only on a poet ; — the eye that distinguishes in everything presented to its view whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pages
...imitation. He thinksrai peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius; he looks round oa Nature and on Life with the eye which Nature bestows...a poet; the eye that distinguishes, in every thing presented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained, and with... | |
 | James Thomson - 1802 - 320 pages
...not to be supprest: his works are said to contain " No line which, dying, he could wish to blot." " As a writer," says Dr. Johnson, " he is entitled to...a poet; the eye that distinguishes, in every thing presented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained, and with... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 258 pages
...one praise of the highest kind ; his mode of thinking and of expressing his thoughts, is original. He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always...poet ; the eye that distinguishes, in every thing presented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained, and with... | |
 | James Thomson, John Aikin - 1804 - 232 pages
...thoughts, is original. His blank verse is no more the " blank verse of Milton, or of any other puet, than the " rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley....poet ; the eye that distinguishes, in every thing pre" sented to his view, whatever there is in which ima" gination can delight to be detained, and with... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...pauses, his diction, are of, his own growth, without transcription, without imitation. He thinks ina peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius...with the eye which Nature bestows only on a poet; the eje that distinguishes in every thing presented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination... | |
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His numbers, his pauses, his diction, are of his own growth, without transcription, without imitation. He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius ; he looks round on nature and on life with the eye which nature bestows only... 
