 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - Liczba stron: 348
...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 - Liczba stron: 344
...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 - Liczba stron: 480
...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 - Liczba stron: 520
...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 - Liczba stron: 350
...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 - Liczba stron: 316
...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 - Liczba stron: 836
...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 - Liczba stron: 808
...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 - Liczba stron: 582
...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 - Liczba stron: 704
...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... 
