| James Thomson - 1793 - 300 pages
...to its view, whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained, and withamind thatat once comprehends the vast, and attends to the minute....that he never yet has felt what Thomson impresses. His is one of the works in which blank verse seems properly used. Thomson's wide expansion of general... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pages
...everything presented to its view whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained, and with a mind that at once comprehends the vast, and attends to the minute.' Johnson's Works, viii. 377. See /tar/, ii. 72, and April 1 1, 1776. 'Has Aetat.54.] Mr. Tkomas Sheridan... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...everything presented to its view whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained, and with a mind that at once comprehends the vast, and attends to the minute.' Johnson's Works, viii. 377. See/<w/, ii. 72, and April 11, 1776. 'Has not ' a great deal of wit, Sir?'... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pages
...to its view, whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained, and with a mind thr at once comprehends the vast, and attends to the minute. The reader of ihe " Seasons" wonders that he never saw before what Thomson shews hr. and that h» never yet has felt... | |
| James Thomson - 1802 - 320 pages
...every thing presented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained, and with a mind that at once comprehends the vast,...that he never yet has felt what Thomson impresses." "His is one of the works in which blank verse seems properly used. Thomson's wide expansion of general... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 258 pages
...every thing presented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained, and with a mind that at once comprehends the vast,...Seasons wonders that he never saw before what Thomson shows him, and that he never yet has felt what Thompson expresses.' Great part of this high praise... | |
| James Thomson, John Aikin - 1804 - 232 pages
...thing pre" sented to his view, whatever there is in which ima" gination can delight to be detained, and with a mind that at once comprehends the vast,...that he never yet has felt what Thomson impresses. " His descriptions of extended scenes and general ' effects bring before us the whole magnificence... | |
| Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...view, whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained, and with a mind that at ooce comprehends the vast, and attends to the minute. The...wonders that he never saw before what Thomson shews bin), and that he never yet has felt what Thomson impresses. Bis is one of the works in which blank... | |
| Robert Forsyth - 1805 - 616 pages
...every thing represented to its view whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained, and with a mind that at once comprehends the vast,...never saw before what Thomson shews him ; and that he I never yet has felt what Thomson impresses." His testamentary executors were Lord Lyttelton, whose... | |
| Robert Forsyth - 1805 - 636 pages
...imagination can delight to be detained, and with a! miud that at once comprehends the vast, and attends the minute. The reader of the Seasons wonders that...that he never yet has felt what Thomson impresses." His testamentory executors were Lord Lyttelton, whose tare of our poet's fortune and fame ceased not... | |
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