 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 pages
...numbers, his paufes, his diction, are of his own growth, without tranfcription> without imitation. He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as...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 - 516 pages
...numbers, his paufes, his diction, are of his own growth, -without tranfcription, without imitation. He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as...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
...numbers, his paufes, his diction, are of his own growth, ivithout tranfcrip. tion, without imitation. He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as...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
...the eye which Nature beftows only on a poet ; the eye that diftinguifhes, in every thing prefented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination...detained, and -with a mind that at once comprehends the vaft, and attends to the minute. The reader of the Seafons wonders that he never faw before what Thomfon... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Criticism and interpretation - 1781 - 258 pages
...the eye which Nature beftows ooly on a poet; the eye that diftinguifhes, in every thing prefented ta its view, whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained, and wkh a mind that at once comprehends the vaft, and attends to the minute. The reader of the Seafens... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 516 pages
...numbers, his paufes, his diction, are of his own growth, without 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Biography - 1784 - 778 pages
...numbers, his pavfes, bis didYion, are of his own growth, without tranfcription, without imitation. He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius ; he looks round ou Nature and on Life with, the eye ' which Nature beftows only on a poet; the eye tha.t d.iflinguilhes,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...numbers, his paufes, his diction, are of his own growth, without tranfcription, without imitation* He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as...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
...numbers, his paufes, his diction, are of his own growth, without tranfcription, without imitation. He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as...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... | |
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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... 
