| Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 384 pages
...one praise of the .lighest 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 )ther poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes )f Cowley. His numbers, his pauses, his diction,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 524 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 - 1825 - 682 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 - 1825 - 750 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 of Cowiey. His numbers, his pauses, his diction, are of his own growth, without transcription, without... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 520 pages
...one praise of the highest kind : his mode of thinking, and of expressing his thoughts, 1 is original. His blank verse is no more the blank verse of Milton,...of any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhyntes of Cowley. His numbers, his pauses, his diction, are of his own growth, without transcription,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1826 - 446 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 transcription, without imitation. He thinks in ;i peculiar train* and he thipks always as a man of genius : he looks round on Mature and on life with... | |
| Hugh Blair - English language - 1829 - 648 pages
...verse is no more the blank verse of Milton, or of any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are Ihc rhymes of Cowley His numbers, his pauses, his diction,...without imitation. He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius. He looks round on nature and life, with the eye which nature bestows... | |
| Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...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,...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 Nainre... | |
| Thomas Allen - Surrey (England) - 1831 - 564 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 poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley. His numbers, his pauses, his diction, are... | |
| Hugh Blair - Rhetoric - 1833 - 654 pages
...cje 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 life, with the eye which nature bestows... | |
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