 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...  The Scots Magazine - Page 631782Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 516 pages
...acquaintance when the advancement of his reputation had left them behind him. As a writer, he is entitled to one praife of the higheft kind ; his mode of thinking,...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 - 1781 - 516 pages
...and of expreffing his thoughts, is original. His blank verfe is no more the blank verfe of Mil-, ton, or of any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are...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 - English poetry - 1781 - 522 pages
...other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley. His numbers, his paufes, his di6tion, are of his own growth, without tranfcription, without...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... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1781 - 506 pages
...rhymes of Cowley. His numbers, his paufes, his diction, are of his own growth, ivithout tranfcrip. tion, without imitation. He thinks in a peculiar train,...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 - English poetry - 1781 - 516 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1783 - 504 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...kind; his mode of thinking, and of expreffing his thoughts, is original. His blank verfe is no mqre the blank verfe of Milton, or of any other poet, than...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, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...blank verfe of Milton, or of any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley. Hia numbers, his paufes, his diction, are of his own growth,...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... | |
 | English essays - 1787 - 342 pages
...to 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...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... | |
 | David Stewart Erskine Earl of Buchan - Scotland - 1792 - 342 pages
...Imag. b. iii. v. 515. " Thomfon's mode of thinking and of expreffing his thoughts (writes Johnfon) is original. His blank verfe is no more the blank...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... | |
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