 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 beitows only on a poet; the eye that distinguishes, in every thing presented to its view, whatever there is on which...  A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen - Page 374by Thomas Thomson - 1855Full view - About this book
 | Sir William Chambers, Joseph Gwilt - 1825 - 378 pages
...conceptions, or of shrinking to the level of the meanest and minutest enquiries ; as Dr. Johnson expresses it, a mind, that at once comprehends the vast, and attends to the minute. Dispositions of this nature are seldom found, their constituent qualities are in some degree incompatible,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1829 - 658 pages
...nature and life, with the eye which nature bestows only on a poet ; the eye that distinguishes in ever* thing presented to its view, whatever there is on...comprehends the vast and attends to the minute. The render of the Seasons wonders that he never saw before what Thomson shows him, and that he never yet... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1829 - 648 pages
...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 ; and with a mind, that at once comprehends the vast and attends to the minute. The... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...eye that distinguishes, in everything presented to its view, whatever there is on whiclrimagination + viist, and attends to the minute.' He looks also with a heart that freís for all mankind. His sympathies... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1833 - 654 pages
...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 mind, that at once comprehends the vast and attends to the minute. The render... | |
 | James Thomson - 1836 - 164 pages
...eye that distinguishes, in every thing presented to its view, whatever there is on which ima^ination can delight to be detained, and with a mind that at...The reader of THE SEASONS wonders that he never saw hefore what Thomson shews him, and that he never yet has felt what Thomson impresses. His is one of... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 362 pages
...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...comprehends the vast, and attends to the minute." Place it in any light, and the poem appears faultless — the episodes are delicious stories — the... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 438 pages
...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...delight to be detained, and with a mind that at once comprebends the vast, and attends to the minute." Place it in any light, and the poem appears faultless... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 448 pages
...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...delight to be detained, and with a mind that at once comprchends the vast, and attends to the minute." Place it in any light, and the poem appears faultless... | |
 | Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - 1838 - 708 pages
...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...imagination can delight to be detained ; and with a mind which at once comprehends the vast, and attends to the minute. The reader of the Seasons wonders that... | |
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