| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 էջ
...tranfcription, without imitation. He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius j he looks 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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 504 էջ
...without tranfcription, without imitation. He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always asiariian of genius ; he looks round on Nature and on Life, with the eye which Nature beftows ohlyorfti poet-; the eye that diftingufifhes, in every 'thing prefented to its view,- whatever... | |
| James Thomson - 1793 - 300 էջ
...poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley . His numbers, his pauses, his diction, are of his own growth, without transcription, without...poet ; the eye that distinguishes, in every thing presented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained, and withamind... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 648 էջ
...though both by Arbuthnot, were commonly assigned to Swift, and are printed in his Works. ' ' Thomson thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as...only on a poet ; — the eye that distinguishes in everything presented to its view whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained,... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 640 էջ
...though both by Arbuthnot, were commonly assigned to Swift, and are printed in his Works. ' 'Thomson thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as...only on a poet ; — the eye that distinguishes in everything presented to its view whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 էջ
...imitation. He thinksrai peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius; he looks round oa Nature and on Life with the eye which Nature bestows...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... | |
| James Thomson - 1802 - 320 էջ
...poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley. His numbers, his pauses, his diction, are of his own growth, without transcription, without...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... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 258 էջ
...one praise of the highest kind ; his mode of thinking and of expressing his thoughts, is original. He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always...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... | |
| James Thomson, John Aikin - 1804 - 232 էջ
...puet, than the " rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley. His " numbers, his pauses, his diction, are of his own " growth, without transcription, without...poet ; the eye that distinguishes, in every thing pre" sented to his view, whatever there is in which ima" gination can delight to be detained, and with... | |
| Great Britain - 1804 - 716 էջ
...pauses, his diction, are of, his own growth, without transcription, without imitation. He thinks ina peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius...with the eye which Nature bestows only on a poet; the eje that distinguishes in every thing presented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination... | |
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