 | Edward Phillips - 1824 - 310 pages
...of praise conferred on him by the splendid eloge of Johnson. « He thinks , » says the Critic , « in a peculiar train; and he thinks always as « a man of genius : he locks round on nature and on life « with the eye , which nature bestows only on a poet ; the eye «... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 682 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 - 1825 - 750 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,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 pages
...praise of the highest kind, — his mode of thinking, and of expressing his thoughts, is original. He thinks always as a man of genius ; he looks round...on nature, and on life, with the eye which nature only bestows on a poet, the eye that distinguishes in every thiug presented to its view, whatever there... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 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...looks round on Nature and on Life with the eye which Nainre Bestows only on a poet, the eye lhat distinguishes., in every thing presented to its view, whatever... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...looking ilvely gratitude. But he looks aiso, as Johnson finely observed, ' with theeye which m ture whiclrimagination can delight to be detained, and with a mind that at once comprehends the viist, and... | |
 | Thomas Allen - 1831 - 564 pages
...pauses, his diction, are of his own CHAP. II. growth — without transcription, without imitation. He 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 — the eye that distinguishes... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1833 - 654 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 life, with the eye which nature bestows only on a poet; the eye that distinguishes in every thing presented... | |
 | James Thomson - 1836 - 164 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 genins : he looks round on nature and on life with the eye which nature bestows only on a poet ; the... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 448 pages
...as. they were. * « * * . * n, 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... 
