 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 750 pages
...the blank verse of Milton, or of any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowiey. His numbers, his pauses, his diction, are of his own...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1826 - 446 pages
...train* and he thipks always as a man of genius : he looks round on Mature and on life with the ey * 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... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1829 - 648 pages
...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 ereiy thing presented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination can delight lo be detained... | |
 | Thomas Allen - Surrey (England) - 1831 - 564 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Rhetoric - 1833 - 654 pages
...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 to its view, whatever there is on which imagination can delight to hidetained; and with a... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1835 - 472 pages
...of any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley. His numbers, bis pauses, bis diction, are of his own growth, without transcription,...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 - 1836 - 164 pages
...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...poet ; the eye that distinguishes, in every thing presented to its view, whatever there is on which ima^ination can delight to be detained, and with... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 438 pages
...one praise of the highest kind — his mode of thinking and of expressing his thoughts is original. His numbers, his pauses, his diction, are of his own...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...of Milton, or of any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior ate the rhymes of Cowley. His numbers, bis 1715, to the middle of the next year. This was undertaken...sometimes with mirth. In argument he had many equals ; presented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained, and with... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 448 pages
...took it down, Can re-assemble the loose scatter'd parts, And put them. as. they were. * « * * . * n, 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 a... | |
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His 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 on life with the eye which nature bestows only... 
