 | Joseph Robertson, Society of Ancient Scots - 1821 - 414 pages
...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...Seasons wonders that he never saw before what Thomson shews him, and that he never yet has felt what Thomson impresses." Of his merits as a dramatist, however,... | |
 | Joseph Clinton Robertson - 1822 - 414 pages
...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...Seasons wonders that he never saw before what Thomson shews him, and that he never yet has felt what Thomson impresses." Of his merits as a dramatist, however,... | |
 | Joseph Robertson, Society of Ancient Scots, London - 1822 - 458 pages
...looks round on Nature and on Life with the eye which Nature bestows only on a poet ; the eye thai: distinguishes, in every thing presented to its view,...Seasons wonders that he never saw before what Thomson shews him, and that he never yet has felt what Thomson impresses." Of his merits as a dramatist, however,... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 346 pages
...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...shows him, and that he never yet has felt what Thomson expresses.' Great part of this high praise appears to me to have arisen from what has been observed,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 404 pages
...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...Seasons " wonders that he never saw before what Thomson shews him, and that he never yet has felt what Thomson impresses. His is one of the works in which... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1823 - 400 pages
...nature and life, with the eye " which nature bestows only on a poet ; the eye that distin" guishes in every thing presented to its view, whatever there...Seasons wonders that he never " saw before what Thomson shews him, and that he never yet " has felt what Thomson impresses. His descriptions of ex." tended... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 734 pages
...presented to its view, whatever there is on vvhich imagination can delight to be detained, and VOL XXX. X with a mind that at once comprehends the vast, and...shows him, and that he never yet has felt what Thomson expresses.' Great part of this high praise appears to me to have arisen from what has been observed,... | |
 | 1823 - 356 pages
...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...which imagination can delight to be detained, and VOL. xxx. x with a mind that at once comprehends the vast, afnd attends to the minute. The reader of... | |
 | 1823 - 346 pages
...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...is on which imagination can delight to be detained, a' VOL. i. x 230 THE LOUNGER. 38with a mind that at once comprehends the vast, and attends to the minute.... | |
 | Edward Phillips - 1824 - 310 pages
...thing presented to its view , whate« ver there is on which Imagination can delight to be de« tained, and with a mind that at once comprehends the « vast...» « wonders that he never saw before what Thomson shews « him, and that he never yet has felt what Thomson impresses. » It must however be still admitted,... | |
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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... 
