 | James Thomson - 1863 - 140 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...The reader of the ' Seasons ' wonders that he never sawbefore what Thomson shows him, and that he never yet has felt what Thomson impresses. " His descriptions... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1865 - 426 страници
...on Life with the eye which Nature bestows only on a poet: the eye that distinguishes, ia everything presented to its view, whatever there is on which..."Seasons" wonders that he never saw before what Thomson shews him, and that he never yet has felt what Thomson impresses. His is one of the works in which... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - 1876 - 604 страници
...on life with the eye which nature only bestows on a poet, the eye that distinguishes in everything presented to its view whatever there is on which imagination...before what Thomson shows him, and that he never yet felt what Thomson impresses. His descriptions of extended scenes and general effects bring before us... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 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...comprehends the vast, and attends to the minute. The gaiety of Spring, the splendour of Summer, the tranquillity of Autumn, and the horror of Winter, take... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1890 - 480 страници
...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 every thing...attends to the minute. The reader of the " Seasons " l wonders that he never saw before what Thomson shews him, and that he never yet has felt what Thomson... | |
 | Walter Jenkinson Kaye - 1891 - 350 страници
...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...comprehends the vast, and attends to the minute." His sentiments are of the purest and most elevating character, and, as Lord Lyttelton has justly remarked,... | |
 | 1894 - 290 страници
...always äs a man of genius. He looks ronnd on nature and on life with the eye which nature only bestows on a poet; the eye that distinguishes in every thing...which Imagination can delight to be detained, and witli a raind that at once comprebends the vast and attends to the minute." 20 Thomson wrofe likewise... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 860 страници
...said, ' with the eye which nature bestows only on a poe: — the eye that distinguishes, in everything presented to its view, whatever there is on which...comprehends the vast, and attends to the minute.' And everywhere we find evidences of a genuinely sympathetic and kindly heart His touching allusions... | |
 | 1904 - 704 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...that he never yet has felt what Thomson impresses. Eighteenth century, full-bottomed periwig and all, how that sticks out, for perception and for expression,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 страници
...candles burning but with a poetical eye.1 Boswell's Johnson, i. 453. Hazlitt, in a criticism of Crabbe, to its view whatever there is on which imagination...Seasons wonders that he never saw before what Thomson shews him, and that he never yet has felt what Thomson impresses. His is one of the works in which... | |
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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... 
