...1 Vid. supr. p. 167. ' See Boswell's Johnson, vol. ii. p. 73. poet ; the eye that distinguishes, in every thing presented to its view, whatever there...attends to the minute. The reader of the " Seasons " l wonders that he never saw before what Thomson shews him, and that he never yet has felt what Thomson...

...of genius ; he looks around on Nature and on life with the eye which Nature bestows only on a poet, and with a mind that at once comprehends the vast, and attends to the minute." To this well-expressed encomium another critic happily adds : " He looks also with a heart that feels...

...life with the eye which nature bestows only on a poet — the eye that distinguishes in everything presented to its view whatever there is on which imagination...comprehends the vast, and attends to the minute." His sentiments are of the purest and most elevating character, and, as Lord Lyttelton has justly remarked,...

...nature and on life with the eye which nature only bestows on a poet; the eye that distinguishes in every thing presented to its view whatever there is...which Imagination can delight to be detained, and witli a raind that at once comprebends the vast and attends to the minute." 20 Thomson wrofe likewise...

...looking round on Nature and on Life with the eye of a poet, the eye which distinguishes in everything presented to its view whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained." His influence was at once and widely felt, and is still active in English poetry. The impetus he gave...

...Nature bestows only on л poet,— the eye that distinguishes, in every thing preí to led to its new, whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained, and a mind that at once comprehends the TMt and attend« to the minute. The reader of 'The Seasons' wunder^...

...said, ' with the eye which nature bestows only on a poe: — the eye that distinguishes, in everything presented to its view, whatever there is on which...comprehends the vast, and attends to the minute.' And everywhere we find evidences of a genuinely sympathetic and kindly heart His touching allusions...

...on Life with the eye which Nature bestows only on a poet, the eye that distinguishes, in everything presented to its view, whatever there is on which...once comprehends the vast and attends to the minute." 2 Finally, in our own day, Professor Saintsbury has justly appreciated Thomson as follows : — "He...

...nature and on life with the eye which nature bestows only on the poet : the eye which distinguishes, in every thing presented to its view, whatever there...mind that at once comprehends the vast and attends to minute. — JOHNSON, SAMUEL, 1779-81, Thomson, Lives of the English Poets. Thomson was admirable in...

...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. ' Of mathematical knowledge, geometry, trigonometry, and conic sections should be understood, as teaching...