 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 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,...other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes ofCowley. His numbers, his pauses, his diction, are of his own growth, without transcription, without... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 pages
...praise of the highest kind : his mode of thinking, ami of ex*. pressing 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 tbe rhymes of Cowley. • His numbers, his pauses, his diction, are of hisown growth, without transcription,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 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... | |
 | William Somervile - 1811 - 312 pages
...to one praiseof the highest kind ; his modeof thinking, and of expressing his thoughts, is original. His blank verse is no more the blank verse of Milton,...Cowley. His numbers, his pauses, his diction, are of hisown growth, without transcription, without imitation. He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks... | |
 | James Thomson - 1811 - 182 pages
...to one praise of the highest kind: his mode of thinking and of expressing his thonghts is original. His blank verse is no more the blank verse of Milton,...the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley. His nnmbers, his panses, his diction, are of his ova growth, withont transcription, withont imitation.... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English literature - 1811 - 400 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, or of " any other poet, than the vliimes of Prior are the rhimes of MR. PARNELL'S Tale of the Hermit, is conspicuous, throughout the... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 532 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... | |
 | James Thomson, Samuel Johnson - 1813 - 180 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, aad he thinks always as a man ft genius ; he looks round on nature and on life, with the eye which... | |
 | William Barker Daniel - Fishing - 1813 - 820 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 of any other Poet, than the Rhymes of PRIOR, were the Rhymes of COWLEV. His Numbers, his Powers, his Diction, are of his own Growth, without Transcription,... | |
 | William Barker Daniel - Falconry - 1813 - 568 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 of any other Poet, than the Rhymes of PRIOR, were the Rhymes of Cow LEY. His Numbers, his Powers, his Diction, are of his own Growth, without Transcription,... | |
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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.... 
