 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 pagina’s
...Prior are the rhymes of Cowley. His numbers, his pauses, his diction, are of his own growth, in that transcription, without imitation. He thinks in a peculiar...bestows only on a poet; the eye that distinguishes, in everything presented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained,... | |
 | Edwin Beresford Chancellor - 1885 - 344 pagina’s
...In the " Life of Thomson," by Percival Stockdale, prefixed to " The Seasons," published in 1793. " thinking, and of expressing his thoughts, " is original....only on a poet ; the eye that " distinguishes, in everything presented " to its view, whatever there is on which " imagination can delight to be detained,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1890 - 480 pagina’s
...his first acquaintance when the advancement of his reputation had left them behind him.2 As a writer, he is entitled to one praise of the highest kind :...Life, with the eye which Nature bestows only on a 1 Vid. supr. p. 167. ' See Boswell's Johnson, vol. ii. p. 73. poet ; the eye that distinguishes, in... | |
 | Sarah Warner Brooks - 1890 - 520 pagina’s
...Dr. Johnson, " thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius ; he looks around on Nature and on life with the eye which Nature bestows only on a poet, and with a mind that at once comprehends the vast, and attends to the minute." To this well-expressed... | |
 | Walter Jenkinson Kaye - 1891 - 350 pagina’s
...thinks in a peculiar train, and he 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 everything presented to its view whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hepburn Millar - 1896 - 316 pagina’s
...his first acquaintance when the advancement of his reputation had left them behind him. As a writer, he is entitled to one praise of the highest kind :...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... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1899 - 836 pagina’s
...imitation, lie thinks in a peculiar train, «n»l hu thinks a) way g ae a man of genius; he looks round ou Nature and on life with the eye which Nature bestows only on л poet,— the eye that distinguishes, in every thing preí to led to its new, whatever there is on... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1902 - 808 pagina’s
...blank verse of Milton, or of any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley. 266 267 His numbers, his pauses, his diction, are of his own...on life with the eye which nature bestows only on the poet ; the eye which distinguishes, in every thing presented to its view, whatever there is on... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 pagina’s
...the blank verse of Milton or of any other poet than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley 6. His numbers, his pauses, his diction, are of his own...on Life with the eye which Nature bestows only on a poet7, the eye that distinguishes in every thing presented 1 Spring ends with a description of wedded... | |
 | 1904 - 704 pagina’s
...easy to turn to Johnson and find out just what it did mean to him. This is Johnson's own account : He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always...bestows only on a poet; the eye that distinguishes, in everything presented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained,... | |
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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... 
