...numbers, his pauses, his diction, are of his own growth, without transcription, without imitation. He looks round on Nature and on Life with the eye...presented to its view, whatever there is on which unagination can delight to be detained. He imparts to us so much of his own enthusiasm, that our thoughts...

..." his pauses, his diction, are of his own " growth, without transcription, without " imitation. He thinks in a peculiar train, " and he thinks always...delight to be detained, " and with a mind that at once compre" hends the vast, and attends to the " minute. — The highest praise which he " has received...

...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...Life, with the eye which Nature bestows only on a 1 Vid. supr. p. 167. ' See Boswell's Johnson, vol. ii. p. 73. poet ; the eye that distinguishes, in...

...which, however perfect, cannot fail to weary the mind of the reader. "Thomson," says Dr. Johnson, " thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius ; he looks around on Nature and on life with the eye which Nature bestows only on a poet, and with a mind that...

...Dr. Johnson, " thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius ; he looks around on Nature and on life with the eye which Nature bestows only on a poet, and with a mind that at once comprehends the vast, and attends to the minute." To this well-expressed...

...to his genius, and his diction is frequently redundant and ambitious; but, as Johnson observes, "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 only on a poet — the eye that distinguishes in everything...

...Johnson describes him as " looking round on Nature and on Life with the eye of a poet, the eye which distinguishes in everything presented to its view...on which imagination can delight to be detained." His influence was at once and widely felt, and is still active in English poetry. The impetus he gave...

...on life with the eye which nature only bestows 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 witli a raind that at once comprebends the vast and attends to the minute." 20 Thomson wrofe likewise...

...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...life, with the eye which Nature bestows only on a poet—the eye that distinguishes, in everything presented to its view, whatever there is on which...

...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...on Life with the eye which Nature bestows only on a poet7, the eye that distinguishes in every thing presented 1 Spring ends with a description of wedded...