...numbers, his paufes, his diction, are of his own growth, without tranfcription, without imitation. He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius j he looks round on Nature and on Life, with the eye which Nature beftows only on a poet ; the eye...

...'numbers, his paufcs, his diciion, are of his own growth, without tranfcription, withdurt-imitation. He thinks in a peculiar train, 'and he thinks always- as. a tnan'of genius^ :he looks round on Nature and C r 34 THOMSON, oh Lift,- with the eye which Nature beflows...

...diflinguifhed critic, " is intitled to one praife of the higheft kind ; his mode of thinking and of expreffing his thoughts is original. He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius : be looks round on nature and on life with the eye eye which Nature beftows only on a poet ; the eye...

...first acquaintance when the advancement of his reputation had left them behind him. As a writer, he is entitled to one praise of the highest kind : his...thinking, and of expressing his thoughts, is original. His blank verse is no more the blank verse of Milton, or 0f any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior...

...said to contain " No line which, dying, he could wish to blot." " As a writer," says Dr. Johnson, " he is entitled to one praise of the highest kind : his...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...

...first acquaintance when the advancement of his 'reputation had left them behind him. ; As a writer, he is entitled to one praise of the highest kind : his...thinking, and of expressing his thoughts, is original. His Wank verse is no more the blank verse of Milton, or of any other poet, than the rhymes of Piior...

...Johnson in the following picturesque language. " As a writer, he is entitled to one praise ofthehigh" est 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 puet, than the " rhymes of...

...paper from his hand, and told him that he did not understand his own verses." " — As a writer he is entitled to one praise of the highest kind; his...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...

...productions ; and his friends loved him \vith an enthusiastic ardour. " As a writer (says Dr Johnson), he is entitled to one praise of the highest kind ; his...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...

...his Lives of the Poets, gives of Thomson, is high, aril, in my opinion, very lust. " As a writer, he is entitled to 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, or of any other poet,...