 | 1787 - 342 pages
...one praife of the higheft kind ; his mode of thinking and of exprefling 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 beftows only on a poet ; the eye that diftinguifhes, in every thing prefcnted to its view, whatever... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 676 pages
...numbers, his paufes, his diclion, are pf h}s pwrj growth, without tranfcription, without imitation, He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius; he looks round op Nature and on Life, with the eye which Nature bcftows only on a, poet; the eye that diftinguifties,... | |
 | 1788 - 340 pages
...eye eye which Nature bellows only on a poet ; the eye that diftinguifhes, 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 reader of the Seafons wonders that he never faw before what Thomfon... | |
 | 1788 - 340 pages
...one praife of the higheft kind ; his mode of thinking and of expreffing his thoughts is original. He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius : be looks round on nature and on life with the eye eye which Nature beftows only on a poet ; the eye... | |
 | David Stewart Erskine Earl of Buchan - 1792 - 342 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...looks round on nature and on life with the eye which nalure beftows only on a poet; the eye that diftinguifhes, in every thing prefented to its view, whatever... | |
 | James Thomson - 1793 - 300 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,... | |
 | 1793 - 738 pages
...numbers, his paufes, his diftion, 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 dirtingiiifhes, in .every thing prefented to its view, whatever... | |
 | 1782 - 682 pages
...diction, are of his own growth, without tranfcription, without imitation. He thinks in a pe« cuiiir train, and he thinks always -as a man of genius ;...round on Nature and on Life, with the eye which Nature bellows only on a poet ; the eye that didinguiihes, in every thing prefented to its view, whatever... | |
 | 1794 - 478 pages
...one praife of the higheft kind his mode of thinking and of expreffing 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 beftows only on a poet ; the eye that diftinguifhes, in every thing prefented to its view, whatever... | |
 | 1794 - 954 pages
...ff his own growth, without tranfcription, without imitation. He thinks in a peculiar - ! i* tliinks always as a man of genius : he looks round on nature, and on life, with the eye :ITITC only beuowH on a poet, the eye that diftiuguifhcs in every thing prefentc<} to its view, •:... | |
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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... 
