 | John Adams - Great Britain - 1813 - 324 pages
...to one praise of the highest kind; his mode of thinking, and expressing his thoughts, is original. His Blank Verse is no more the Blank Verse of Milton, or any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley. His numbers, his pauses, his diction,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1815 - 582 pages
...is no more the lilank verse of Milton, or of any other poet, than the rhimcs of Prior are the rlumcs of Cowley. His numbers, his pauses, his diction, are...without imitation. He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man ef genius. He looks round on nature and life, with the eye which nature bestows... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 526 pages
...praise of the highest kind : his mode of thinking, and of express-, ing 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... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...own compositions.' His mode of thinking, and of expressing his thoughts (says Johnson) is original. His blank verse is no more the blank verse of Milton,...transcription, without imitation. He thinks in a peculiar strain, and he thinks, always, as a man of genius. And blank verse seemed especially adapted to his... | |
 | James Thomson - 1816 - 256 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,...of any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhyme* of Cowley. His numbers, his pauses, his diction, ;ir« of his own growth, without transcription,... | |
 | Biography - 1816 - 526 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 rbymes of Prior are the rbymes of Cowley. His numbers, his pauses, his diction, art* of his own growth,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 530 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 rbymes of Prior are the rbymes of Cowley. His numbers, his pauses, his diction, are of his own growth,... | |
 | John Evans - 1817 - 610 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1819 - 364 pages
...highest kind : his mode of thinking, and of expressing his thoughts, is original. His blank verses is no more the blank verse of Milton, or of any other...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1819 - 364 pages
...his mode of thinking, and of expressing bis thoughts, is original. His blank verses is no moretlie blank verse of Milton, or of any other poet, than...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... | |
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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.... 
