 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 522 strani
...the eye which Nature beftows only on a poet ; the eye that diftinguifhes, in every thing prefented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination...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... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1781 - 506 strani
...the eye which Nature beftows only on a poet ; . the eye that diftinguifhes, in every thing prefented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination...detained, and with a mind that at once comprehends the vafl, and attends to the minute. The. reader of the Seafons wonders that he never faw before what Thomfon... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 strani
...the eye which Nature beftows only on a poet ; the eye that diftinguifhes, in every thing prefented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination...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... | |
 | 1787 - 342 strani
...the eye which nature beftows only on a poet ; the eye that diftinguifhes, in every thing prefcnted to its view, whatever there is on which imagination...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 strani
...with the eye which Nature beftows only on a poet; the eye that diftinguifhes, in every thing prefented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination...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... | |
 | 1788 - 340 strani
...eye eye which Nature bellows only on a poet ; the eye that diftinguifhes, in every thing prefented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination...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 - 1792 - 342 strani
...with the eye which nalure beftows only on a poet; the eye that diftinguifhes, in every thing prefented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination...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 strani
...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...which imagination can delight to be detained, and withamind thatat once comprehends the vast, and attends to the minute. The reader of the " Seasons"... | |
 | 1782 - 682 strani
...with the eye which Nature bellows only on a poet ; the eye that didinguiihes, in every thing prefented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination...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 strani
...the eye which Nature beftows only on a poet; the eye that dirtingiiifhes, in .every thing prefented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination...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... | |
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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... 
