 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 516 pages
...poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley. His numbers, numbers, his paufes, his diction, are of his own growth, without tranfcription, without...peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius j he looks round on Nature and on Life, with the eye which Nature beftows only on a poet ; the eye... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 244 pages
...'numbers, his paufcs, his diciion, are of his own growth, without tranfcription, withdurt-imitation. He thinks in a peculiar train, 'and he thinks always- as. a tnan'of genius^ :he looks round on Nature and C r 34 THOMSON, oh Lift,- with the eye which Nature beflows... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1783 - 504 pages
...than the rhymes of Prior arc the rhymes of Cowley. His rrambers, his paufe, h« diction; ate of jhi§ own growth, without tranfcription, without imitation....He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always asiariian of genius ; he looks round on Nature and on Life, with the eye which Nature beftows ohlyorfti... | |
 | Biography - 1784 - 778 pages
...other poet, than the rhymes of Prior, are the rhymes of Cowjey. Hi$ numbers, his pavfes, bis didYion, are of his own growth, without tranfcription, without...thinks always as a man of genius ; he looks round ou Nature and on Life with, the eye ' which Nature beftows only on a poet; the eye tha.t d.iflinguilhes,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 676 pages
...the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowjey. His numbers, his paufes, his diclion, are pf h}s pwrj growth, without tranfcription, without imitation,...he thinks always as a man of genius; he looks round op Nature and on Life, with the eye which Nature bcftows only on a, poet; the eye that diftinguifties,... | |
 | 1788 - 340 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 as a man of genius : be looks round on nature and on life with the eye eye which Nature beftows only on a poet ; the eye... | |
 | David Stewart Erskine Earl of Buchan - Scotland - 1792 - 342 pages
...other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley. His numbers, his paufes, his diction, are of his own growth, without tranfcription, without...looks round on nature and on life with the eye which nalure beftows only on a poet; the eye that diftinguifhes, in every thing prefented to its view, whatever... | |
 | James Thomson - 1793 - 300 pages
...rhymes of Cowley . His numbers, his pauses, his diction, are of his own growth, without transcription, without imitation. He thinks in a peculiar train,...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... | |
 | English literature - 1782 - 682 pages
...other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley. Hi» numbers, his paules, his 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 ; he looks round on Nature and on Life,... | |
 | 1794 - 954 pages
...;, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley. His numbers, his paufes, his dic•. <f : ff his own growth, without tranfcription, without imitation. He thinks in a peculiar - ! i* tliinks always as a man of genius : he looks round on nature, and on life, with the eye :ITITC... | |
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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 on a poet... 
