| Tobias Smollett - 1781 - 506 pages
...rhymes of Cowley. His numbers, his paufes, his diction, are of his own growth, ivithout tranfcrip. tion, without imitation. He thinks in a peculiar train,...on Nature, and on Life, with the eye which Nature beftows only on a poet ; . the eye that diftinguifhes, in every thing prefented to its view, whatever... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 pages
...rhymes of Cowley. His numbers, his paufes, his diction, are of his own growth, without tranfcription> without imitation. He thinks in a peculiar train,...round on Nature and on Life, with the eye which Nature beftows only on a poet ; the eye that diftinguifhes, in every thing prefented to its view, whatever... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 522 pages
...rhymes of Cowley. His numbers, his paufes, his di6tion, are of his own growth, without tranfcription, without imitation. He thinks in a peculiar train,...round on Nature and on Life, with the eye which Nature beftows only on a poet ; the eye that diftinguifhes, in every thing prefented to its view, whatever... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...rhymes of Cowley. His numbers, his paufes, his diction, are of his own growth, without tranfcription, without imitation. He thinks in a peculiar train,...round on Nature and on Life, with the eye which Nature beftows only on a poet; the eye that diftinguifhes, in every thing prefented to its view, whatever... | |
| 1787 - 342 pages
...to one praife of the higheft kind ; his mode of thinking and of exprefling his thoughts is original. He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always...round on nature and on life with the eye which nature beftows only on a poet ; the eye that diftinguifhes, in every thing prefcnted to its view, whatever... | |
| James Thomson - 1793 - 300 pages
...of expressing his thoughts, is original. His blank verse is no more the blank verse of Milton, or 0f any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes...round on 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... | |
| 1793 - 738 pages
...rhymes of Cowley. His numbers, his paufes, his diftion, are of his own growth, without tranfcription, without imitation. He thinks in a peculiar train,...round on Nature and on Life, with the eye which Nature beftows only on a poet; the eye that dirtingiiifhes, in .every thing prefented to its view, whatever... | |
| 1782 - 682 pages
...diction, are of his own growth, without tranfcription, without imitation. He thinks in a pe« cuiiir train, and he thinks always -as a man of genius ;...round on Nature and on Life, with the eye which Nature bellows only on a poet ; the eye that didinguiihes, in every thing prefented to its view, whatever... | |
| 1794 - 478 pages
...to one praife of the higheft kind his mode of thinking and of expreffing his thoughts is original. He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always...round on nature and on life with the eye which Nature beftows only on a poet ; the eye that diftinguifhes, in every thing prefented to its view, whatever... | |
| Robert Anderson - 1795 - 972 pages
...rhymes of Cowley. His numbers, his paufes, his dietoo, arc of his own growth, without tranfcription, without imitation. He thinks in a peculiar train,...he looks round on nature, and on life, with the eye »aich nature only beftows on a poet, the eye that diflinguifhcs in every thing prefented to its view,... | |
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