"Thomsonian" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Nature herself saw him, and took him in, Hitherto, as I have already said, Hugh's acquaintance with Nature had been chiefly a second-hand one — he knew friends of hers. Nature in poetry — not in the form of Thomsonian or Cowperian descriptions, good as they are, but closely interwoven with and expository of human thought and feeling — had long been dear to him. In this form he had believed that he knew her so well, as to be able to reproduce the lineaments of her beloved ...
— David Elginbrod • George MacDonald |
