 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...one praise of the highest kind- — his mode of thinking and of expressing his thoughts is original. His numbers, his pauses, his diction are of his own...without imitation. He thinks in a peculiar train , and he thinks always as a man of genins. He looks round on nature and on life with the eye which nature... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 344 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | Thomas Thomson - Scotland - 1855 - 368 pages
...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,...other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowlcy. His numbers, his pauses, his diction, are of his own growth, without transcription, without... | |
 | James Thomson - Seasons in literature - 1856 - 346 pages
...of expressing his thoughts, is original. His blank verse is no more the blank verse of Milton, nor of any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the...without imitation. He thinks in a peculiar train, and he always thinks as a man of genius. He looks round on nature and on life with the eye which nature... | |
 | James Thomson - Seasons in literature - 1856 - 344 pages
...of expressing his thoughts, is original. His blank verse is no more the blank verse of Milton, nor of any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the...without imitation. He thinks in a peculiar train, and he always thinks as a man of genius. He looks round on nature and on life with the eye which nature... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 pages
...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 ot any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley. His numbers, his pauses, his... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 574 pages
...kind — his mode of thinking, and of expressing his thoughts is original. His numbers, his powers, 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... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - Catalogs, Dictionary - 1862 - 432 pages
...vols. London, 1788. . The same. 8vo. 3 vols. London, 1 788. Large paper, calf, ex. THOMSON — cont. 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... | |
 | James Thomson - 1863 - 140 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - English language - 1866 - 654 pages
...oaf prai» of the highest kind ; his mode of thinking, and of expressing his thongVAi , Is original. His blank verse is no more the blank verse of Milton, or of any other pJet, than th« rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley . His numbers, his pauses, his diction, are... | |
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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.... 
