 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 362 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...comprehends the vast, and attends to the minute." Place it in any light, and the poem appears faultless — the episodes are delicious stories — the... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 448 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...delight to be detained, and with a mind that at once comprchends the vast, and attends to the minute." Place it in any light, and the poem appears faultless... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 438 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...delight to be detained, and with a mind that at once comprebends the vast, and attends to the minute." Place it in any light, and the poem appears faultless... | |
 | Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - 1838 - 692 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...imagination can delight to be detained ; and with a mind which at once comprehends the vast, and attends to the minute. The reader of the Seasons wonders that... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1839 - 702 pages
...thinks always as a man of genius. He looks round on nature and 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 ; anil wiUi a mind, that at once comprehends the vast and attends to the minute. The reader of the... | |
 | James Thomson - 1841 - 352 pages
...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." This is as true as it is eloquent. Though a scholar, and familiar with all the resources of ancient... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1842 - 318 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...once comprehends the vast and attends to the minute." give them; where he should lodge his carriages, his baggage, and the defenceless followers of his camp... | |
 | James Thomson - 1842 - 440 pages
...always as a man of genins : he looks round on nature and on life with the eye which nature hestows ouly on a poet ; the eye that distinguishes, in every thing...whatever there is on which imagination can delight to he detained, and with a mind that at once comprehends the vast and attends to the minnta. The reader... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...observed, ' with the eye which nature bestows only on a poet — the eye that distinguishes, in everything he morning star i In Ms steep course ! So long he...awful head, 0 sovran Blanc ! The Arve and Arveiron He looks also with a heart that feels for all mankind. His sympathies are universal. His touching allusions... | |
 | Eliphalet L. Rice - 1846 - 432 pages
...as a man of genius. He looks round on nature and life, with the eye which nature bestows only on the poet ; the eye that distinguishes in every thing presented...comprehends the vast, and attends to the minute." Amid his strength and splendor, his style is sometimes harsh, but goodness and beauty were a passion... | |
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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... 
