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 New London Magazine - Página 1731837Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 728 páginas
...rivulet, and sometimes watched the changes of the summer clouds. To a poet nothing can be useless. Whatever is beautiful, and whatever is dreadful, must...imagination : he must be conversant with all that is The plants of the garden, the animals of the wood, the minerals of the earth, and meteors of the sky,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 508 páginas
...rivulet, and sometimes watched the changes of the summer clouds. To a poet, nothing can be useless. Whatever is beautiful, and whatever is dreadful, must be familiar to his imaginahou : he must be conversant with all that is awfully vast, or elegantly little. The plants of... | |
| 1826 - 450 páginas
...dreadful, muft be familiar to his imagination : he muft be converf.mt with all ihnt is aivfnllv vaft or elegantly little. The plants of the garden, the animals of the wood, the minerals of theearth, and meteors of the fky, muft all concur to ftore his mind with inexhauftible variety : for... | |
| Jean-Pons-Victor Lecoutz de Levizac - 1828 - 466 páginas
...his imagination ; he must (ho 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 the earth, and the meteors of the sky, must all concur to store his mind with inexhaustible variety ; for every idea... | |
| Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1882 - 856 páginas
...rivulet, and sometimes watched the changes of the summer clouds. To a poet, nothing can be useless. Whatever is beautiful, and whatever is dreadful, must...vast or elegantly little. The plants of the garden, and the meteors of the sky must all concur to store his mind with inexhaustible variety ; for every... | |
| Allan Cunningham - 1833 - 292 páginas
...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 gTeat, whatever is eautiful, whatever... | |
| Allan Cunningham - 1830 - 374 páginas
...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 his examination. Whatever is great, whatever is beautiful, whatever... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1831 - 138 páginas
...rivulet, and sometimes watched the changes of the summer clouds. To a poet nothing can be useless. Whatever is beautiful, and whatever is dreadful, must...of the sky, must all concur to store his mind with inexhausti ble variety : for every idea is useful for the enforcement or dscoration of moral or religious... | |
| 1832 - 700 páginas
...describing the qualities necessary to constitute one, exclaim, " To a poet nothing can be useless. Whatever is beautiful and whatever is dreadful must...animals of the wood, the minerals of the earth, and the meteors of the sky, must all concur to store his mind with inexhaustible variety ;" — " for he... | |
| George Horne - 1833 - 438 páginas
...and whatever is dreadful, should be familiar to his imagination : he should be conversant with nil that is awfully vast or elegantly little. The plants...animals of the wood, the minerals of the earth, and météore of the sky, should all concur to store his mind with inexhaustible variety ; for every idea... | |
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