 ... of attention was suddenly magnified : no kind of knowledge was to be overlooked. I ranged mountains and deserts for images and resemblances, and pictured upon my mind every tree of the forest and flower of the valley. I observed •with equal•care...  Works - Seite 309von Samuel Johnson - 1811Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Francis Wayland - 1865 - 444 Seiten
...Sometimes I wandered along the mazes of the rivulet, and sometimes watched the changes of the summer cloud. To a poet nothing can be useless. Whatever is beautiful and whatever ia dreadful must be familiar to his imagination ; he must be conversant with all that is awfully vast... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 802 Seiten
...of faculties does " Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" display! "To a Poet," says Johnson, in Rasselas, " nothing can be useless. Whatever is beautiful and...with all that is awfully vast or elegantly little." After this direction is "Childe Harold" written, but with a much wider scope ; the vices, the follies,... | |
 | Louis Nottelle - 1868 - 190 Seiten
...pictured upon my mind every tree of the forest and flower of the valley. I observed with equal care the crags of the rock and the pinnacles of the palace. Sometimes 3 I wandered along the mazes of the rivulet, and sometimes 3 watched the changes of the summer clouds.... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1871 - 444 Seiten
...Sometimes I wandered along the mazes of the rivulet, and sometimes watched the changes of the summer cloud. To a poet nothing can be useless. Whatever is beautiful and whatever ia dreadful must be familiar to his imagination ; he must be conversant with all that is awfully vast... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1872 - 776 Seiten
...grasp of faculties does "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" display! "To a Poet," says Johnson, in Bosselas, " nothing can be useless. Whatever is beautiful and...with all that is awfully vast or elegantly little." After this direction is "Childe Harold" written, but with a much wider scope ; the vices, the follies,... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1875 - 660 Seiten
...and pictured upon my mind eventree of the forest and flower of the valley. I observed with equal care the crags of the rock and the pinnacles of the palace....or elegantly little. The plants of the garden, the a'himals of the wood, the minerals of the earth, and meteors of the sky, must all concur to store his... | |
 | 1877 - 678 Seiten
...pictured upon my mind every tree of the forest and flower of the valley. I observed with equal care the crags of the rock and the pinnacles of the palace....sometimes watched the changes of the summer clouds. To a poot nothing can be useless. Whatever is beautiful and whatever is dreadful, must be familiar to his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 216 Seiten
...pictured upon my mind every tree of the forest and flower of the valley. I observed with equal care the crags of the rock and the pinnacles of the palace....wandered along the mazes of the rivulet, and sometimes j watched the changes of the summer clouds. To a poet 'nothing can be useless. Whatever is beautiful,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1891 - 286 Seiten
...pictured upon my mind every tree of the forest and flower of the valley. I observed with equal care the crags of the rock and the pinnacles of the palace....rivulet, and sometimes watched the changes of the sum- 20 mer clouds. To a poet nothing can be useless. Whatever is beautiful, and whatever is dreadful,... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 Seiten
...— Shdleg. Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious. — Carlyle. To a poet nothing can be useless. Whatever is beautiful,...whatever is dreadful, must be familiar to his imagination ; lie must be conversant with all that is awfully vast or elegantly little. — Johnson. Poetry is... | |
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