 | James Thomson - 1836 - 164 Seiten
...transcription, without imitation. He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genins : 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 ima^ination can delight to be detained, and with... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 438 Seiten
...one praise of the highest kind — his mode of thinking and of expressing his thoughts is original. His numbers, his pauses, his diction, are of his own...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 a... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 Seiten
...of Milton, or of any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior ate the rhymes of Cowley. His numbers, bis 1715, to the middle of the next year. This was undertaken...sometimes with mirth. In argument he had many equals ; presented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained, and with... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 448 Seiten
...took it down, Can re-assemble the loose scatter'd parts, And put them. as. they were. * « * * . * n, are of his own growth, without transcription, without...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 a... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1837 - 360 Seiten
...thinks,' said he, ' 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...poet; the eye ' that distinguishes, in every thing presented to his ' view, whatever there is, in which imagination can be ' delighted to be detained,... | |
 | Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - 1838 - 708 Seiten
...ourselves as others see us." Elsewhere the critic is more candid. " As a writer," he says, " Thompson is entitled to one praise of the highest kind. His...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 - 1838 - 716 Seiten
...blank verse of Milton, or of any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior nro the rhymes of Cowley. Hia numbers, his pauses, his diction, are of his own growth,...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 - 1840 - 522 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 742 Seiten
...train, and he thinks always as a man of genius : he looks round on Nature and on Life with the eve 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... | |
 | James Thomson - 1841 - 352 Seiten
...good, the same resemblance may be found. " His numbers, his pauses, his diction," says Johnson, " are his own growth, without transcription, without imitation;...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,... | |
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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... 
