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" I saw every thing with a new purpose; my sphere 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 Prince of Abissinia: A Tale : in Two Volumes - Page 67
by Samuel Johnson - 1759 - 165 pages
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The New [afterw.] Owen's weekly chronicle; or ..., Volume 2, Issues 40-91

1759 - 422 pages
...piftured upon my1 mind every tree of the foreil end flower of the valley. I obferved with equal care the1 crags of the rock, and the pinnacles of the palace....Sometimes I wandered along the mazes of the rivulet, and forafetinies watched the changes of the fummer clouds. To1 •a poet nothing can be ufelefs. Whatever...
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The prince of Abissinia [by S. Johnson].

Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 324 pages
...and pictured upon my mind every tree of the foreft and flower of the valley. I obferved with equal care the crags of the rock and the pinnacles of the...palace. Sometimes I wandered along the mazes of the rivuletx and fometimes watched the changes of the fummer clouds. To a poet nothing can be ufelefs....
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Tales and visions: The history of ...

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 546 pages
...refemblances, and pictured upon my mind every tree of the foreft and Mower of the valley. I obferved with equal care the crags of the rock and the pinnacles of the...Sometimes I wandered along the mazes of the rivulet, and fometimcs watched the changes of the fummer clouds. To a poet nothing can be ufelefs. Whatever is beautiful,...
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The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale

Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1790 - 318 pages
...and pi<flured upon my mind every ucc of the foreft and flower of the valley. I obferved with .equal care the crags of the rock and the pinnacles of the palace. Sometimes 1 wandered along the mazes PRINCE OF AB1SSINIA. 67 mazes of the rivulet^ and fometimes watched the...
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected ...

Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1797 - 516 pages
...and piftured upon my mind every tree of the foreft and flower of the valley. I obferved with equal care the crags of the rock, and the pinnacles of the palace. Sometimes I wandered along thi mazes of the rivulet, and fometimes watched the changes of the fummer clouds. To a poet nothing...
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose ..., Volume 2

1797 - 522 pages
...and pictured upon my mind every tree of the foreft and flower of the valley. I obferved with equal care the crags of the rock, and the pinnacles of the palace. Sometime* I was. dered along the mazes of the rivulet, and fometimes watched the changes of the fummer...
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Dissertation on Greek comedy fr. Brumoy. Observations on Macbeth. Adventurer ...

Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 458 pages
...and pictured upon my mind every tree of the foreft and flower of the valley. I obferved with equal care the crags of the rock and the pinnacles of the...rivulet, and fometimes watched the changes of the furrimer clouds. To a poet nothing can be ufelefs. Whatever is beautiful, and whatever is dreadful,...
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Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 pages
...and 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...Sometimes I wandered along the mazes of the rivulet, and sometimes watched the changes of the summer clouds.—To a poet nothing can be useless. Whatever is...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...and 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...Sometimes I wandered along the mazes of the rivulet, and sometimes watched the changes of the summer clouds. To a poet nothing can be useless. Whatever is beautiful,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and ..., Volume 3

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 458 pages
...and 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...Sometimes I wandered along the mazes of the rivulet, and sometimes watched the changes of the summer clouds. To a poet nothing can be useless. Whatever is beautiful,...
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