 | Hugh Blair - 1849 - 650 страници
...every thing presented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination can delight to bidetained ; and with a mind, that at once comprehends the vast...he never yet has felt what Thomson impresses. His descriptions of extended scenes, and general effects, bring before us the whole magnificence of nature,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1850 - 800 страници
...there is on whieh Imagination ean delight to be detained ; and with a mind that at onee eomprehends the vast, and attends to the minute. The reader of...what Thomson impresses. His is one of the works in whieh blank verse seems properly used. Thomson's wide expansion of general views, and his enumeration... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 страници
...always as a man of genins. He looks round on nature and on life with the eye which nature only bestows on a poet; the eye that distinguishes in every thing...once comprehends the vast and attends to the minute." — A Hymn. (From Ihe Seasons.) These , as they change , Almighty Father , these Are but the varied... | |
 | Thomas Thomson - 1855 - 368 страници
...nature, and on life, with the eye which nature only bestows on a poet, the eye that distinguishes, ¡n every thing presented to its view, whatever there...before what Thomson shows him, and that he never yet felt what Thomson impresses. His deicriptions of extended scenes, and general effects, bring before... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1856 - 372 страници
...always as a man of genius ; he looks round on nature and on life witli the eye which nature bestows only on a poet ; the eye that distinguishes, in every...imagination can delight to be detained, and with a rnind that at once comprehends the vast, and attends to the minute. The reader of the Seasons wonders... | |
 | James Thomson - 1856 - 344 страници
...gratitude. -*. But he looks also, as Johnson has finely observed, " with the eye which nature bestows only on a poet — the eye that distinguishes, in...comprehends the vast, and attends to the minute." He looks also with a heart that feels for all manJjis.sympathies are ^universal. ™His touching allusions... | |
 | James Thomson - 1856 - 346 страници
...lively gratitude. But he looks also, as Johnson has finely observed, " with the eye which nature bestows only on a poet — the eye that distinguishes, in...comprehends the vast, and attends to the minute." He looks also with a heart that feels for all mankind. His sympathies are universal. His touching allusions... | |
 | 1857 - 574 страници
...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 every...comprehends the vast, and attends to the minute." Campbell has accurately described the beauties of Thomson's descriptive poetry in the following eloquent... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1861 - 660 страници
...on 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...minute. The reader of ' The Seasons ' wonders that lie never saw before what Thomson shows him, and that he never yet has felt what Thomson impresses.... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1862 - 432 страници
...distinguishes in everything presented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination can delight to he detained, and with a mind that at once comprehends...that he never yet has felt what Thomson impresses." — (Life of Thomson.) • • A System of Chemistry, by Thomas Thomson, MD, Professor of Chemistry,... | |
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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... 
