To a poet nothing can be useless. Whatever is beautiful, and whatever is dreadful, must be familiar to his imagination : he must be conversant with all that is awfully vast or elegantly little. The plants of the garden, the animals of the wood, the minerals... The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale : in Two Volumes - Seite 67von Samuel Johnson - 1759 - 165 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Horace - 1855 - 718 Seiten
...dreadful, must be familiar to his imagination : he must be conversant with all that is awfully vast, or elegantly little. The plants of the garden, the...wood, the minerals of the earth, and meteors of the sky, must all concur to store his mind with inexhaustible variety : for every idea is useful for the... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1856 - 118 Seiten
...dreadful, must be familiar to his imagination; he must be conversant with all that is awfully vast or elegantly little. The plants of the garden, the animals of the wood, the minerals of the eaith, and meteors of the sky, must all concur to store his mind with inexhaustible variety ; for every... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1856 - 120 Seiten
...dreadful, must be familiar to his imagination; he must be conversant with all that is awfully vast or elegantly little. The plants of the garden, the animals of the wood, the minerals of tfie eaith, and meteors of the sky, must all concur to store his mind with inexhaustible variety ;... | |
| Salem Town - 1857 - 524 Seiten
...vast or elegantly little, must be familiar to his imagination. The plants of the garden, the imim:i! of the wood, the minerals of the earth, and meteors of the sky, must all concur to store his mind with inexhau?tible variety. SECTION XII. RULE 12. The emphatic... | |
| P. F. Merlet - 1858 - 188 Seiten
...familiar to his imagination : he must be conversant with all that is wfully vast 12 or elegantly little.13 The plants of the garden, the animals of the wood, the minerals of the earth, and meteors of the sky. must all concur to store his nih.d with inexhaustible variety, for 18 Instead of saying: "écrire... | |
| Jean-Pons-Victor Lecoutz de Levizac - 1858 - 576 Seiten
...his imagination : he must (be conversant 22) with all that (is awfully vast or elegantly little 23). The plants of the garden, the animals of the wood, the minerals of tin: earth, and the meteors of the sky, must all concur to store hi; mind with inexhaustible variety... | |
| Allan Cunningham - 1859 - 288 Seiten
...watch the changes of the clouds : in short, all nature, savage or civilized, animate or inanimate, the plants of the garden, the animals of the wood, the minerals of the earth, and the motions of the sky, must undergo is examination. Whatever is great, whatever is eautiful, whatever... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1860 - 250 Seiten
...communicative without ostentation." — CHAP. XL. Of the quaternion, the following is an instance : — " The plants of the garden, the animals of the wood, the minerals of the earth, and meteors of the sky, must all concur to store his mind with inexhaustible variety."— CHAP. X. It is chiefly the concatenation... | |
| Salem Town, Nelson M. Holbrook - 1864 - 516 Seiten
...Whatever is beautiful or dreadful, awfully vast or elegantly little, must be familiar to his imagination. The plants of the garden, the animals of the wood, the minerals of the earth, and meteors of the sky, must all concur to store his mind with inexhaustible variety. SECTION XII. RULE 12. The emphatic... | |
| Wise sayings - 1864 - 394 Seiten
...dreadful, must be familiar to his imagination ; he must be conversant with all that is awfully vast or elegantly little. The plants of the garden, the animals of the wood, the minerals of the earth, the meteors of the sky, must all concur to store his mind with inexhaustible variety ; for every idea... | |
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