 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 bestows only on a poet; the eye that distinguishes, in every thing presented to its view, whatever there is on which...  Lives of the English Poets: Swift-Lyttelton - 299 ページSamuel Johnson 著 - 1905全文表示 - この書籍について
 | George Campbell Macaulay - 1908 - 280 ページ
...with the eye which Nature bestows only on a poet, the eye that distinguishes, in everything presented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination...once comprehends the vast and attends to the minute." 2 Finally, in our own day, Professor Saintsbury has justly appreciated Thomson as follows : — "He... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1908 - 650 ページ
...looks round on Nature and on life with the eye which Nature bestows only on a poet.' When he adds that the reader of the ' Seasons ' ' wonders that he never saw before what Thomson shows him, and that he never yet has felt what Thomson impresses,' he very naively and amusingly betrays... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 616 ページ
...the eye which nature bestows only on the poet : the eye which distinguishes, in every thing presented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination...mind that at once comprehends the vast and attends to minute. — JOHNSON, SAMUEL, 1779-81, Thomson, Lives of the English Poets. Thomson was admirable in... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - 1913 - 672 ページ
...and attractive to cause such a classicist and lover of the town as Dr. Samuel Johnson to say: — " The reader of The Seasons wonders that he never saw before what \ Thomson shows him, and that he never yet has felt what Thomson I impresses." Ossian "and The Castle of Otranto."... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - 1913 - 678 ページ
...novel and attractive to cause such a classicist and lover of the town as Dr. Samuel Johnson to say: — "The reader of The Seasons wonders that he never saw before what Thomson shows him, and that he never yet has felt what Thomson impresses." Ossian " and The Castle of Otranto."... | |
 | Stephen Coleridge - 1916 - 242 ページ
...complete satisfaction in the perusal of Thomson. Dr. Johnson said of Thomson's " Seasons " : " The reader wonders that he never saw before what Thomson shews him, and that he never yet felt what Thomson impresses." His mantle fell upon Cowper, who was a youth when Thomson died in 1748.... | |
 | George Gregory Smith - 1919 - 312 ページ
...knowledge. On this last point, Johnson, with characteristic nobility of judgement, has said the last word. "The reader of the Seasons wonders that he never saw before what Thomson shows him, and that he never yet has felt what Thomson impresses." l We are ungrateful to him as we... | |
 | Frances Elizabeth Clarke - 1927 - 474 ページ
...Thomson in The Seasons makes ready the way. In his criticism of this work, Samuel Johnson remarks: " The reader of The Seasons wonders that he never saw before what Thomson shows him, and that he never felt what Thomson impresses." Cowper and Burns are the first to denounce... | |
 | Martin Shaw Briggs - 1927 - 482 ページ
...conceptions, or of shrinking to the level of the meanest and minutest enquiries : as Dr. Johnson expresses it, a mind that at once comprehends the vast and attends to the minute. ' Of mathematical knowledge, geometry, trigonometry, and conic sections should be understood, as teaching... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 696 ページ
...to its view, whatever there is OB which imagination can delight to be detained ; and with a nri«d that at once comprehends the vast, and attends to the minute. The gaiety of Spring, the splendour of Summer, the tranquillity of Autumn, and the horror of Winter, take,... | |
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