 | Edwin Beresford Chancellor - Richmond (England) - 1885 - 344 pages
...blank verse of Milton, or of any " other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are " the rhymes of Cowley. His numbers, " his pauses, his diction, are of his...only on a poet ; the eye that " distinguishes, in everything presented " to its view, whatever there is on which " imagination can delight to be detained,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1890 - 480 pages
...the blank verse of Milton, or of any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley. His numbers, his pauses, his diction, are of his own...Life, with 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... | |
 | Sarah Warner Brooks - English poetry - 1890 - 518 pages
...which, however perfect, cannot fail to weary the mind of the reader. "Thomson," says Dr. Johnson, " thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man 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... | |
 | Sarah Warner Brooks - English poetry - 1890 - 520 pages
...Dr. Johnson, " thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Hugh Walker - English literature - 1893 - 272 pages
...his measure, Thomson's verse is no mere echo of that of any earlier poet. Johnson justly remarks, " His numbers, his pauses, his diction, are of his own...growth, without transcription, without imitation." Even in The Seasons however there are evidences of the limitations which prevented Thomson from fulfilling... | |
 | Hugh Walker - Scottish literature - 1893 - 272 pages
...his measure, Thomson's verse is no mere echo of that of any earlier poet. Johnson justly remarks, " His numbers, his pauses, his diction, are of his own...growth, without transcription, without imitation." Even in The Seasons however there are evidences of the limitations which prevented Thomson from fulfilling... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hepburn Millar - English poetry - 1896 - 316 pages
...the blank verse of Milton, or of any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley. His numbers, his pauses, his diction, are of his own...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... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - American literature - 1899 - 836 pages
...imitation, lie thinks in a peculiar train, «n»l hu thinks a) way g ae a man of genius; he looks round ou Nature and on life with the eye which Nature bestows only on л poet,— the eye that distinguishes, in every thing preí to led to its new, whatever there is on... | |
 | John Hepburn Millar - Europe - 1902 - 412 pages
...without strong reminiscences of the latter. It is something sui generis. " His numbers," says Johnson, " his pauses, his diction, are of his own growth, without transcription, without imitation." Some of his effects are attained by means of an artifice which has rarely failed of success in English... | |
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As a writer, he is entitled to one praise of the highest kind: his mode of thinking, and of expressing his thoughts, is original. His blank verse is no more the blank verse of Milton, or of any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley.... 
