...poet ; the eye that distinguishes, in every thing presented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained, and with a...Seasons wonders that he never saw before what Thomson shows him, and that he never yet has felt what Thomson impresses. His is one of the works in which...

...conceptions, or of shrinking to the level of the meanest and minutest enquiries ; as Dr. Johnson expresses it, a mind, that at once comprehends the vast, and attends to the minute. Dispositions of this nature are seldom found, their constituent qualities are in some degree incompatible,...

...poet ; the eye that distinguishes, in every thing presented to its .view, whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained, and with a...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...

...There breathes throughout his poem the enthusiasm of the poet of nature: and if we cannot allow that the reader of the Seasons "wonders that he never saw before what Thomson shows him," unless it be a reader unaccustomed to hold converse with the beautiful in the material...

...distinguishes in ereiy thing presented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination can delight lo be detained ; and with a mind, that at once comprehends...Seasons wonders that he never saw before what Thomson •hows him, and that he never yet has felt what Thomson impresses. His descriptions of extended scenes,...

...poet ; the eye that distinguishes in ever* thing presented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained ; and with...comprehends the vast and attends to the minute. The render of the Seasons wonders that he never saw before what Thomson shows him, and that he never yet...

...poet, the eye lhat distinguishes., in every thing presented to its view, whatever there n on which imagination can delight to be detained, and with a...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...

...eye that distinguishes, in everything presented to its view, whatever there is on whiclrimagination + viist, and attends to the minute.' He looks also with a heart that freís for all mankind. His sympathies...

...poet — the eye that distinguishes in every thing presented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained, and with a...Seasons wonders that he never saw before what Thomson shows him, and that he never yet has felt what Thomson impresses. His description of extended scenes...

...of genius ; he looks around on Nature and on life with the eye which Nature bestows only on a poet, and with a mind that at once comprehends the vast, and attends to the minute." To this well-expressed encomium another critic happily adds : " He looks also with a heart that feels...