 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....  Lounger - Page 224by Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 516 pages
...numbers, his paufes, his diction, are of his own growth, without tranfcription, without imitation. He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius j he looks round on Nature and on Life, with the eye which Nature beftows only on a poet ; the eye... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 244 pages
...'numbers, his paufcs, his diciion, are of his own growth, without tranfcription, withdurt-imitation. He thinks in a peculiar train, 'and he thinks always- as. a tnan'of genius^ :he looks round on Nature and C r 34 THOMSON, oh Lift,- with the eye which Nature beflows... | |
 | 1788 - 340 pages
...diflinguifhed critic, " is intitled to one praife of the higheft kind ; his mode of thinking and of expreffing his thoughts is original. He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius : be looks round on nature and on life with the eye eye which Nature beftows only on a poet ; the eye... | |
 | James Thomson - 1793 - 300 pages
...first acquaintance when the advancement of his reputation had left them behind him. As a writer, he is entitled to one praise of the highest kind : his...thinking, and of expressing his thoughts, is original. His blank verse is no more the blank verse of Milton, or 0f any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior... | |
 | James Thomson - English poetry - 1802 - 320 pages
...said to contain " No line which, dying, he could wish to blot." " As a writer," says Dr. Johnson, " he is entitled to one praise of the highest kind : his...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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...first acquaintance when the advancement of his 'reputation had left them behind him. ; As a writer, he is entitled to one praise of the highest kind : his...thinking, and of expressing his thoughts, is original. His Wank verse is no more the blank verse of Milton, or of any other poet, than the rhymes of Piior... | |
 | James Thomson, John Aikin - 1804 - 232 pages
...Johnson in the following picturesque language. " As a writer, he is entitled to one praise ofthehigh" est 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 puet, than the " rhymes of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 322 pages
...paper from his hand, and told him that he did not understand his own verses." " — As a writer he is entitled to one praise of the highest kind; his...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... | |
 | Robert Forsyth - Agriculture - 1805 - 636 pages
...productions ; and his friends loved him \vith an enthusiastic ardour. " As a writer (says Dr Johnson), he is entitled to one praise of the highest kind ; his...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... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1807 - 402 pages
...his Lives of the Poets, gives of Thomson, is high, aril, in my opinion, very lust. " As a writer, he is entitled to one praise of the highest kind ; his mode of thinking, and of expressing bis thoughts, is original. His blank verse is no more the blank verse of Milton, or of any other poet,... | |
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