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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the ... - Page 524
by James Boswell - 1799
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The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Volume 9

Robert Anderson - 1795 - 972 pages
...numbers, his paufes, his dietoo, arc of his own growth, without tranfcription, without imitation. He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as...he looks round on nature, and on life, with the eye »aich nature only beftows on a poet, the eye that diflinguifhcs in every thing prefented to its view,...
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Johnson's Lives of the the English Poets: Abridged: with Notes and Illustrations

Samuel Johnson - 1797 - 278 pages
...numbers, his paufes, his diction, are of his own growth, without tranfcription, without imitation. He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as...round on nature and on life, with the eye which nature beftows only on a poet ; the eye. that diftinguiihes, in every thing prefented to its view, whatever...
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Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts ..., Volume 18, Part 2

Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 636 pages
...numbers, his paules, his diftion, are of his own growth, without tranfcription, without imitation. He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as...a man of genius ; he looks round on Nature and on lite with the eye which Nature beftows only on a poet; the eye th?.t dillinguifhes, in every thin'T...
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Theatrum Poetarum Anglicanorum: Containing the Names and Characters of All ...

Edward Phillips - 1800 - 440 pages
...the eye which nature beftows only on a poet ; the eye that dif. tinguifhes, in every thing prefented to its view» whatever there is on which imagination...detained, and with a mind that at once comprehends the vaft, and attends to the minute.— ——The poet imparts to us fo much of his own enthufiafm, that...
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Lives

Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pages
...his pauses, his diction, K "t his own growth, without transcription, without 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 only on a poet; the eye that distinguishes,...
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The Seasons ...

James Thomson - 1802 - 320 pages
...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...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,...
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The British Essayists: The Observer

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 as...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,...
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The Poetical Works of James Thomson: With His Last Corrections ..., Volume 1

James Thomson, John Aikin - 1804 - 232 pages
...numbers, his pauses, his diction, are of his own " growth, without transcription, without imitation. " He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always "...only on a " 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,...
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The works of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland. With prefaces ..., Volume 1

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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The Beauties of Scotland: Containing a Clear and Full Account of the ...

Robert Forsyth - 1805 - 616 pages
...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...bestows only on a poet ; the eye that distinguishes in every thing represented to its view whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained,...
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