 Nature bestows only on a 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 mind that at once comprehends the vast, and attends to the minute. The reader...  The British Essayists: Lounger - Page 2301823Full view - About this book
 | James Thomson - 1793 - 300 pages
...on which imagination can delight to be detained, and withamind thatat once comprehends the vast, and attends to the minute. The reader of the " Seasons" wonders that he never saw before what Thomson shews him, and that he never yet has felt what Thomson impresses. His is one of the works in which... | |
 | James Thomson - English poetry - 1802 - 320 pages
...which imagination can delight to be detained, and with a mind that at once comprehends the vast, and attends to the minute. The reader of the Seasons wonders that he never saw before what Thomson shews him, and that he never yet has felt what Thomson impresses." "His is one of the works in which... | |
 | James Thomson, John Aikin - 1804 - 232 pages
...which ima" gination can delight to be detained, and with a mind that at once comprehends the vast, and attends to the minute. The reader of the "Seasons" wonders that ' he never saw before what Thomson shews him, and that he never yet has felt what Thomson impresses. " His descriptions of extended scenes... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...which imagination can delight to be detained, and with a mind that at ooce comprehends the vast, and attends to the minute. The reader of the " Seasons" wonders that he never saw before what Thomson shews bin), and that he never yet has felt what Thomson impresses. Bis is one of the works in which... | |
 | Robert Forsyth - Agriculture - 1805 - 636 pages
...imagination can delight to be detained, and with a! miud that at once comprehends the vast, and attends the minute. The reader of the Seasons wonders that he never saw before what Thomson shews him ; and that he never yet has felt what Thomson impresses." His testamentory executors were... | |
 | Robert Forsyth - Agriculture - 1805 - 616 pages
...which imagination can delight to be detained, and with a mind that at once comprehends the vast, and attends to, the minute. The reader of the Seasons wonders that he Eminent men. never saw before what Thomson shews him ; and that he ' v .i never yet has felt what Thomson... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 464 pages
...which imagination can delight to be detained, and with a mind that at once comprehends the vast, and attends to the minute. The reader of The Seasons wonders...shows 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...with a mind that at once comprehends the vast and attends to the minute. The reader of the Sea-\ tons 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 blank verse seems properly used. Thomson's wide expansion... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 pages
...which imagination can delight to be detained, and with a mind that at once comprehends the vast, and attends to the minute. The reader of the " Seasons" wonders that he never saw before what Thomson shews him, and that he never yet has felt what Thomson impresses. His is one of the works in which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 pages
...which imagination can delight to be detained, and with a mind that at once comprehends the vast, and attends to the minute. The reader of the " Seasons" wonders that he never saw before what Thomson shews him, and that 'he never yet has felt what Thomson impresses'.' ''''•• His is one of the works... | |
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