 | Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1815 - 582 pages
...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1816 - 526 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,... | |
 | 1816 - 526 pages
...numbers, his pauses, his diction, art* 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,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1816 - 256 pages
...numbers, his pauses, his diction, ;ir« 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 titing presented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1816 - 530 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 looks round on Nature and on Lite with the eye which Nature bestows only on a poet; the eye that distinguishes, in every thing represented... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1816 - 298 pages
...one praife of the highlit Jtin,l,—his mode of thinking, and of expreffing his thoughts, is original He thinks always as a man of genius ; he looks round on nature, and on lifey with the eye which nature only beftows on a poet, the eye that diiiinguifhes in every thing prefented... | |
 | John Evans - 1817 - 610 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, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 404 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,... | |
 | Joseph Robertson, Society of Ancient Scots - 1821 - 414 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... 
