 | 1788 - 340 pages
...poet ; the eye that diftinguifhes, in every thing prefented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained, and with a mind that at once comprehends the vaft, and attends to the minute. The reader of the Seafons wonders that he never faw before what Thomfon... | |
 | David Stewart Erskine Earl of Buchan - Scotland - 1792 - 342 pages
...poet; the eye that diftinguifhes, in every thing prefented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained, and with a mind that at once comprehends the vaft, and attends to the minute. " The reader of the Seafons wonders that he never faw before what... | |
 | James Thomson - 1793 - 300 pages
...to its view, whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained, and withamind thatat once comprehends the vast, and attends to the minute....shews him, and that he never yet has felt what Thomson impresses. His is one of the works in which blank verse seems properly used. Thomson's wide expansion... | |
 | English literature - 1782 - 682 pages
...poet ; the eye that didinguiihes, in every thing prefented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained, and with a mind that at once comprehends the vaft, and attends to the minute. The reader of the Seafons wonders that he never ftw before what Thomfon... | |
 | 1793 - 738 pages
...poet; the eye that dirtingiiifhes, in .every thing prefented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained, and •with a mind that at once comprehends the vaft, and attends to the minute. The reader of the Seafons wonders that he never faw before what Thomlbn... | |
 | 1794 - 954 pages
...on a poet, the eye that diftiuguifhcs in every thing prefentc<} to its view, •: there is on which imagination can delight to be detained, and with a mind that at once • '-iSoid» the vaft, and attends to the minute. The reader of the Staßns wonders that he never... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1797 - 278 pages
...poet ; the eye. that diftinguiihes, in every thing prefented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained, and with a mind that at once comprehends the vafl, and attends to the minute." ' ' : , . " -- The great defect of the " Seafons" i* want of method... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...poet ; — the eye that distinguishes in everything presented to its view whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained, and with a...comprehends the vast, and attends to the minute.' Johnson's Works, viii. 377. See /tar/, ii. 72, and April 1 1, 1776. 'Has Aetat.54.] Mr. Tkomas Sheridan... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...poet ; — the eye that distinguishes in everything presented to its view whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained, and with a...comprehends the vast, and attends to the minute.' Johnson's Works, viii. 377. See/<w/, ii. 72, and April 11, 1776. 'Has not ' a great deal of wit, Sir?'... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...to its view, whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained, and with a mind thr at once comprehends the vast, and attends to the minute. The reader of ihe " Seasons" wonders that he never saw before what Thomson shews hr. and that h» never yet has felt... | |
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Seasons" wonders that he never saw before what Thomson shews him, and that he never yet has felt what Thomson impresses. 
