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 eye that distinguishes, in every thing presented to its view, whatever there is on which... Lives of the English Poets: Swift-Lyttelton - Page 299by Samuel Johnson - 1905Full view - About this book
| Samuel Johnson - 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... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1781 - 506 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 vafl, and attends to the minute. The. reader of the Seafons wonders that he never faw before what Thomfon... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 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 - 1781 - 516 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 the1 vaft, and attends to the minute. The reader of the Seafons wonders that he never faw before what... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 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 - 1781 - 244 pages
...that diftinguifb.es, in every thing prefented to it's view, whatever there is on which imagination ean delight to be 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 - 1783 - 504 pages
...the eye which Nature beftows ohlyorfti poet-; the eye that diftingufifhes, in every 'thing prefented to its view,- whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained, and with a •mind tha't^-onee comprehends the vaft, and •attends to' the minute. The reader of the Seajons wonders... | |
| 1784 - 778 pages
...poet; the eye tha.t d.iflinguilhes, in every thing reprefented to its view, . whatever there is oi which imagination can delight to be detained, and with a mind that at once comprehends the vaft, and attends to the minute. The reader, of the " Seafous"'. winders that he never faw before what... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...with 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... | |
| 1787 - 342 pages
...the eye which nature beftows only on a poet ; the eye that diftinguifhes, in every thing prefcnted 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... | |
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