 | Walter Jenkinson Kaye - English poetry - 1891 - 350 pages
...equal to his genius, and his diction is frequently redundant and ambitious; but, as Johnson observes, "he 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1905 - 582 pages
...rhymes of Cowley 6. 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 poet7, the eye that distinguishes in every thing presented 1 Spring ends with a description... | |
 | American literature - 1904 - 704 pages
...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...round on Nature and on Life with the eye which Nature bestows only on a poet; the eye that distinguishes, in everything presented to its view, whatever there... | |
 | George Campbell Macaulay - Poets, Scottish - 1907 - 278 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 everything presented to its view, whatever there... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 616 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 the poet : the eye which distinguishes, in every thing presented to its view, whatever... | |
 | George Campbell Macaulay - 1910 - 280 pages
...diction are of his own growth, without transcription, without imitation. He thinks in a peculiar tram, 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, the eye that distinguishes, in everything presented to its view, whatever there... | |
 | Robert Anderson - College readers - 696 pages
...with an idea of legitimate poetry, recommended by the utmost felicity of imagery and expression. " He looks 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... | |
 | Allen Reddick - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 292 pages
..."poetical eye." "Thomson had a true poetical genius, the power of viewing every thing in a poetical light." "He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always...round on Nature and on Life with the eye which Nature bestows only on a poet, the eye that distinguishes in everything presented to its view whatever there... | |
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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... 
