 | Robert Forsyth - 1805 - 636 pages
...the eye which nature 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, and with a! miud that at once comprehends the vast, and attends the minute. The reader of the Seasons wonders that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 322 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 a man of genius; he iooks round on nature and on life with the eye which nature bestows only on a poet; the eye that distinguishes,... | |
 | Samuel Miller - 1805 - 422 pages
...diqtion, are of his own growth, without transcription, without imitation. He thinks in a peculiar strain ; 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1807 - 356 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...round on nature and on life with the eye which Nature feestows only on a poet ; the eye that distinguishes, in every thing presented to its view, whatever... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1807 - 378 pages
...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...can delight to be detained, and with a mind that at ontfe comprehends the vast, and attends to the minute. The reader of the Season* wonders that he never... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1807 - 402 pages
...number*, 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 life, with the eye which nature bestows nniy on a. poet ; the eye that distinguishes in every thing... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1809 - 400 pages
...the eye " which nature beftows only on a Poet; the eye that diftinguimes *' in every thing prefehted to its view, whatever there is on which " imagination...; and with a mind, that " at once comprehends the vail and attends to the minute. The " Reader of the Seafo'ns wonders that he never faw before what... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 pages
...numbers, his pauses, his diction, are of his own growth, without transcription, with- mi 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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 464 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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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 on a poet... 
