 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 362 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 - 1837 - 752 pages
...numbers, bis pauses, his diction, are of his own growth, without transcription, without imitation. He overnment, sometimes with argument and sometimes with mirth. In argument he had many equals ; every thing presented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained,... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 438 pages
...on 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 imagination...delight to be detained, and with a mind that at once comprebends the vast, and attends to the minute." Place it in any light, and the poem appears faultless... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1837 - 360 pages
...great; and for this he was justly valued by the first critic of his age. ' Thomson thinks,' said he, ' 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; the eye ' that... | |
 | Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - 1838 - 688 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... | |
 | Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - 1838 - 692 pages
...on 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...imagination can delight to be detained ; and with a mind which at once comprehends the vast, and attends to the minute. The reader of the Seasons wonders that... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1839 - 702 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 imagination can delight to be detained ; anil wiUi a mind, that at once comprehends the vast and attends to the minute. The reader of the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 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 - 1840 - 742 pages
...numbers, Ins pauses, his diction, are of his own growth, without transcription, without imitation. He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as...genius : he looks round on Nature and on Life with the eve which Nature bestows only on a poet ; the eye that distinguishes, in every thing presented to its... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1842 - 318 pages
...decorate his matter with every grace of elegant expression." And in his life of Thomson observes, that " Thomson thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks...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... 
