 | Joseph Robertson, Society of Ancient Scots - 1821 - 414 pages
...that any new biographer can add can raise higher. " His mode of thinking," says that great critic, " and of expressing his thoughts, is original. His blank...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... | |
 | 1822 - 278 pages
...bis first acquaintance when the advancement of his reputation had left them behind him. Asa writer, he is entitled to one praise of the highest kind:...a poet; the eye that distinguishes, in every thing pre., sented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained, and with... | |
 | Joseph Clinton Robertson - 1822 - 414 pages
...that any new biographer can add can raise higher. " His mode of thinking," says that great critic, " and of expressing his thoughts, is original. His blank...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... | |
 | Joseph Robertson, Society of Ancient Scots, London - 1822 - 458 pages
...expressing his thoughts, is original. His blank verse is no more the blank verse of Milton, or of1 any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes...eye which Nature bestows only on a poet ; the eye thai: distinguishes, in every thing presented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination can... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 404 pages
...his first acquaintance when the advancement of his reputation had left them behind him. As a writer he is entitled to one praise of the highest kind:...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... | |
 | ARTHUR MURPHY - 1823 - 616 pages
...his first acquaintance when the advancement of his reputation had left them behind him. As a writer he is entitled to one praise of the highest kind:....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... | |
 | 1823 - 346 pages
...to 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...a poet; the eye that distinguishes, in every thing presented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained, a' VOL. i.... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1823 - 400 pages
...thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of " genius. He looks round on nature and life, with the eye " which nature bestows only on a poet ; the eye that distin" guishes in every thing presented to its view, whatever there " is on which imagination can... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 410 pages
...imitation. He thinks in ajeculiar 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 on a poet; in every thing presented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 384 pages
...poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes )f Cowley. His numbers, his pauses, his diction, ire of his own growth, without transcription, without...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... | |
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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... 
