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" The poet leads us through the appearances of things as they are successively varied by the vicissitudes of the year, and imparts to us so much of his own enthusiasm that our thoughts expand with his imagery and kindle with his sentiments. "
A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen - Page 375
by Thomas Thomson - 1855
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: Prior. Congreve. Blackmore ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 494 pages
...poet leads us through the appearances of things as they are successively varied by the vicissitudes of the year, and imparts to us so much of his own en' thusiam, that our thoughts expand with his imagery and kindle with his sentiments. Nor is the naturalist...
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Broome, Pope, Pitt, Thomson

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 538 pages
...as they are successively varied by the vicissitudes of the year, and imparts to us so much of Jiis own enthusiasm, that our thoughts expand with his imagery, and kindle with hiť sentiments. Nor i* the naturalist without his part in the entertainment; for he is assisted to...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 12

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...which are the necessary effects of rhyme. of his own enthusiasm, that our thoughts expand with hi* imagery, and kindle with his sentiments. Nor is the naturalist without his part in the entertainment; for he is assisted to recollect and to combine, to range his discoveries,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes, Volume 11

Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 pages
...poet leads us through the appearances of things as they are successively varied by the vicissitudes of the year, and imparts to us so much of his own...his sentiments. Nor is the naturalist without his part in the entertainment ; for he is assisted to recollect and to combine, to range his discoveries...
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Lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres, Volume 3

Hugh Blair - English literature - 1811 - 402 pages
...appearances of things, as they " are successively varied by the vicissitudes of the year, and im" parts to us so much of his own enthusiasm, that our thoughts...with his imagery, and kindle with his sentiments." The censure which the same eminent critic passes upon Thomson's diction, is no less just and well founded,...
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The seasons; to which is prefixed the life of the author

James Thomson - 1811 - 182 pages
...by the vicissitndes of the year, and imparts to ns so mnch of his own enthnsiasm, that onr thonghts expand with his imagery, and kindle with his sentiments. Nor is the natnralist -withont his pert in the entertainment; for he is assisted to recollect and combine ; to...
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The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and ..., Volume 29

Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 532 pages
...poet leads us through the appearances of things as they are successively varied by the vicissitudes of the year, and imparts to us so much of his own enthusiasm, that our thoughts expand with bis imagery, and kindle with his sentiments. Nor is the naturalist without his part in the entertainment...
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The Flowers of Modern History: Comprehending on a New Plan, the Most ...

John Adams - Great Britain - 1813 - 324 pages
...things, as they are successively varied by the vicissitudes of the year, and imparts to us so much of his enthusiasm, that our thoughts expand with his imagery, and kindle with his sentiments." Mr Parnell's Tale of the Hermit, is conspicuous, throughout the whole of it, for beautiful Descriptive...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Critical Observations on His Works

Robert Anderson - Authors, English - 1815 - 660 pages
...poet leads us through the appearances of things, as they are successively varied by the vicissitudes of the year, and imparts to us so much of his own...with his imagery, and kindle with his sentiments." The decision of impartial criticism is pronounced on the poems of Young ; and a very just and glowing...
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The General Biographical Dictionary, Volume 29

Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 532 pages
...poet leads us through the appearances of things as they are successively varied by the vicissitudes of the year, and imparts to us so much of his own...his sentiments. Nor is the naturalist without his part in the entertainment ; for he is assisted to recollect and to combine, to arrange his discoveries,...
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