 | James Thomson, Samuel Johnson - 1813 - 180 Seiten
...•without transcription, without imitation. He thinks in a peculiar train, aad he thinks always as a man ft genius ; he looks round on nature and on life, with...a poet; the eye that distinguishes, in every thing presented to its view, whatever there is on w hich imagination can delight to be detained, and with... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 Seiten
...with an idea of legitimate poetry, recommended by the utmost felicity of imagery and expression. " He looks round on Nature and on Life, with the eye...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 - 1815 - 582 Seiten
...He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man ef genius. He looks round on nature and life, with the eye which nature bestows only on a poet ; the eye (hat distingushes in every thing presented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination can... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 410 Seiten
...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... | |
 | James Thomson - 1816 - 256 Seiten
...poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhyme* of Cowley. His numbers, his pauses, his diction, ;ir« of his own growth, without transcription, without...only on a poet ; the eye that distinguishes, in every titing presented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained, and... | |
 | John Evans - 1817 - 610 Seiten
...strains '. " Dr. JOHNSON'S character of the Writings of Thomson is animated and just : — " 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 a... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1819 - 364 Seiten
...highest kind : his mode of thinking, and of expressing his thoughts, is original. His blank verses is no more the blank verse of Milton, or of any other...a poet; the eye that distinguishes, in every thing presented to i* view, whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained, and with a... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1819 - 364 Seiten
...his mode of thinking, and of expressing bis thoughts, is original. His blank verses is no moretlie blank verse of Milton, or of any other poet, than...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, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 404 Seiten
...is no more the blank verse of Milton, or of any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the ryhmes 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 with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 412 Seiten
...is no more the blank verse of Milton, or of any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the ryhmes 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 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... 
