 | Edward Phillips - 1824 - 310 pages
...» says the Critic , « in a peculiar train; and he thinks always as « a man of genius : he locks round on nature and on life « with the eye , which...poet ; the eye « that distinguishes in every thing presented to its view , whate« ver there is on which Imagination can delight to be de« tained, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 524 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 682 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 520 pages
...is no more the blank verse of Milton, or of any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhyntes of Cowley. His numbers, his pauses, his diction, are...poet ; the eye that distinguishes, in every thing presented to its \ , view, whatever there is on which imagination can delight ' to be detained, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 750 pages
...the blank verse of Milton, or of any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowiey. His numbers, his pauses, his diction, are of his own...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 446 pages
...train* and he thipks always as a man of genius : he looks round on Mature and on life with the ey * which Nature bestows only on 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... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1829 - 648 pages
...He 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 distinguishes in ereiy thing presented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination can delight lo be detained... | |
 | Thomas Allen - 1831 - 564 pages
...imitation. He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius. He looks around on nature and on life with the eye which nature bestows...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... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1833 - 654 pages
...He 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 distinguishes in every thing presented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination can delight to hidetained; and with a... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1835 - 472 pages
...of any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley. His numbers, bis pauses, bis diction, are of his own growth, without transcription,...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... 
