| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 1788 - 340 pages
...eye eye which Nature bellows 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... | |
| David Stewart Erskine Earl of Buchan - 1792 - 342 pages
...with the eye which nalure 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... | |
| James Thomson - 1793 - 300 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...which imagination can delight to be detained, and withamind thatat once comprehends the vast, and attends to the minute. The reader of the " Seasons"... | |
| 1782 - 682 pages
...with the eye which Nature bellows only on a poet ; the eye that didinguiihes, 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 ftw before what Thomfon... | |
| 1793 - 738 pages
...the eye which Nature beftows only on a poet; the eye that dirtingiiifhes, 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 Thomlbn... | |
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