Being now resolved to be a poet, 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... Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia - Page 28by Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 135 pagesFull view - About this book
| J. Cherpilloud - 1853 - 266 pages
...crou Je Malte ; — • sauver. QUALIFICATIONS KECESSARY FOR1 A. POET. Now resolved to" be a* poet, my sphere" of attention was suddenly magnified", no* kind of knowledge was to be overlooked1. I ranged* mountains and deserts for imagesb and resemblances*, and pictured •upon* my... | |
| Francis Wayland - Philosophy - 1854 - 444 pages
...Says Imlac, in Easselas, "I ranged mountains and deserts for images and resemblances, and pictured on my mind every tree of the forest and flower of the...rivulet, and sometimes watched the changes of the summer cloud. To a poet nothing can be useless. Whatever is beautiful and whatever is dreadful must be familiar... | |
| Francis Wayland - Philosophy - 1854 - 436 pages
...Imlac, in Rasselas, " I ranged, mountains and deserts for images and resemblances, and pictured on my mind every tree of the forest and flower of the...rivulet, and sometimes watched the changes of the summer cloud. To a poet nothing can be useless. Whatever is beautiful and whatever is dreadful must be familiar... | |
| Francis Wayland - Philosophy - 1861 - 444 pages
...and pictured on my mind every tree of the forest, and flower of CULTIVATION OF THE IMAGINATION. 371 the valley. I observed with equal care the crags of...rivulet, and sometimes watched the changes of the summer cloud. To a poet nothing can be useless. Whatever is beautiful and whatever is dreadful must be familiar... | |
| William Russell - Elocution - 1854 - 398 pages
...the sage at his meditation : 1 mingle in the crowd of cities, and bless the hermit in his cell. 2. I ranged mountains and deserts for images and resemblances,...every tree of the forest, and flower of the valley. 3. Though Homer lived, as is generally believed, only two or three centuries after the Trojan war,... | |
| Horace - 1855 - 718 pages
...greatest critics of modern times : " Being now resolved to be a poet, I saw every thing with a new purpose ; my sphere of attention was suddenly magnified : no kind of knowledge was to be overlooked. * » • * To a poet, nothing can be useless. Whatever is beautiful, and whatever is dreadful, must... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1856 - 120 pages
...and opinions I did not understand. " Being now resolved to be a poet, I saw every thing with a new purpose; my sphere of attention was suddenly magnified...and pictured upon my mind every tree of the forest ana flower of the valley. I observed with equal care the crags of the rock and the pinnacles of the... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1856 - 118 pages
...mountains and deserts for images and resemblances, and pictured upon my mind every tree of the forest ana flower of the valley. I observed with equal care the...palace. — Sometimes I wandered along the mazes of the nvulet, and sometimes watched the changes of the summer clouds.— -To^ poet npjthing can be useless.... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - Conduct of life - 1857 - 452 pages
...interests and opinions I did not understand. " Being now resolved to be a poet, I saw everything with a new purpose: my sphere of attention was suddenly magnified;...observed with equal care the crags of the rock and the pinnacle of the palace. Sometimes I wandered along the mazes of the rivulet, and sometimes watched... | |
| Jean-Pons-Victor Lecoutz de Levizac - French language - 1858 - 576 pages
...overlooked 19.) I ranged mountains and deserts for 20 images and resemblances and (pictured upon my mind 21) every tree of the forest and flower of the valley....Sometimes I wandered along the mazes of the rivulet 1. Partie la plus sublime de la literature. 2. Qui tenalt de. 8. Cell vlenne de ce que. 4. But. 5.... | |
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