 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 pagina’s
...bestows on a poet, the eye that distinguishes in every thiug presented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained ; and...Seasons" wonders that he never saw before what Thomson shows him, and that he had never felt what Thomson impresses. WATTS, Dr. Isaac, — a learned and eminent... | |
 | Sir William Chambers, Joseph Gwilt - 1825 - 378 pagina’s
...conceptions, or of shrinking to the level of the meanest and minutest enquiries ; as Dr. Johnson expresses it, a mind, that at once comprehends the vast, and attends to the minute. Dispositions of this nature are seldom found, their constituent qualities are in some degree incompatible,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1826 - 268 pagina’s
...There breathes throughout his poem the enthusiasm of the poet of nature: and if we cannot allow that the reader of the Seasons "wonders that he never saw before what Thomson shows him," unless it be a reader unaccustomed to hold converse with the beautiful in the material... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1829 - 648 pagina’s
...distinguishes in ereiy thing presented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination can delight lo be detained ; and with a mind, that at once comprehends...Seasons wonders that he never saw before what Thomson •hows him, and that he never yet has felt what Thomson impresses. His descriptions of extended scenes,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1829 - 658 pagina’s
...only on a poet ; the eye that distinguishes in ever* thing presented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained ; and...comprehends the vast and attends to the minute. The render of the Seasons wonders that he never saw before what Thomson shows him, and that he never yet... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pagina’s
...eye that distinguishes, in everything presented to its view, whatever there is on whiclrimagination + viist, and attends to the minute.' He looks also with a heart that freís for all mankind. His sympathies... | |
 | Thomas Allen - 1831 - 564 pagina’s
...on a poet — the eye that distinguishes in every thing presented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained, and...Seasons wonders that he never saw before what Thomson shows him, and that he never yet has felt what Thomson impresses. His description of extended scenes... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1833 - 654 pagina’s
...every thing presented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination can delight to hidetained; and with a mind, that at once comprehends the vast and attends to the minute. The render of the Seasons wonders that he never saw before what Thomson shows him, and that he never yet... | |
 | 1834 - 602 pagina’s
...with a fidelity that, in the words of hie biographer, makes the reader *' wonder that he never sew before what Thomson shews him, and that he never yet has felt what Thomson impresses." His diction, though occasionally cumbrous and la302 LITERATURE. boured, seldom becomes harsh or unmusical;... | |
 | James Thomson - 1836 - 164 pagina’s
...eye that distinguishes, in every thing presented to its view, whatever there is on which ima^ination can delight to be detained, and with a mind that at...The reader of THE SEASONS wonders that he never saw hefore what Thomson shews him, and that he never yet has felt what Thomson impresses. His is one of... | |
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Seasons wonders that he never saw before what Thomson shows him, and that he never yet has felt what Thomson impresses. 
