The business of a poet," said Imlac, "is to examine, not the individual, but the species ; to remark general properties and large appearances ; he does not number the streaks of the tulip, or describe the different shades in the verdure of the forest. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 11by Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 687 pagesFull view - About this book
| Samuel Johnson - English fiction - 1891 - 286 pages
...circuit of these mountains, and yet cannot walk abroad without the sight of something which I had 10 never beheld before, or never heeded." " The business...streaks of the tulip, or describe the different shades 15 in the verdure of the forest : he is to exhibit in his portraits of nature such prominent and striking... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1895 - 660 pages
...prince, " you must surely have left much unobserved. I have lived, till now, within the circuit of these mountains, and yet cannot walk abroad without the...streaks of the tulip, or describe the different shades in the verdure of the forest. He is to exhibit in his portraits of nature such prominent and striking... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1895 - 670 pages
...prince, " you must surely have left much unobserved. I have lived, till now, within the circuit of these mountains, and yet cannot walk abroad without the...streaks of the tulip, or describe the different shades in the verdure of the forest. He is to exhibit in his portraits of nature such prominent and striking... | |
| James Kirby - Law - 1897 - 424 pages
...grandeur of the outline of the surrounding hills. "The business of the poet," said 1m lac in Rasselas, " is to examine, not the individual, but the species;...appearances ; he does not number the streaks of the tulip, nor describe the different shades in the verdure of the forest." No; he deals not with minute details... | |
| Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1898 - 228 pages
...prince, 'you must surely have left much unobserved. I have lived, till now, within the circuit of these mountains, and yet cannot walk abroad without the...business of a poet,' said Imlac, ' is to examine, not jo the individual, but the species ; to remark general properties and large appearances. He does not... | |
| Self-culture - 1899 - 972 pages
...Imlac, to the Prince of Abyssinia, spoke thus concerning the poet's art : <( The business of a poet is to examine, not the individual, but the species...appearances; he does not number the streaks of the tulip, nor describe the different shades in the verdure of the forest. He is to exhibit in his portraits of... | |
| 1900 - 674 pages
...quotations from Johnson's writings. Imlac in narrating his life describes his attempts to become a poet. " The business of a poet," said Imlac, " is to examine...streaks of the tulip or describe the different shades in the verdure of the forest. He is to exhibit in his portraits of nature such prominent and striking... | |
| Leslie Stephen - Poets, English - 1902 - 724 pages
...attempts to become a poet. " The business of a poet," said Imlac, " is to examine not the individual, bat the species; to remark general properties and large...streaks of the tulip or describe the different shades in the verdure of the forest. He is to exhibit in his portraits of nature such prominent and striking... | |
| Armine Thomas Kent - English literature - 1905 - 306 pages
...is a theory propounded in Rasselas to the effect that the business of the poet is to remark only " general properties and large appearances. He does...streaks of the tulip, or describe the different shades in the verdure of the forest." He must " neglect the minuter discriminations for those characteristics... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1881 - 918 pages
...a theory propounded in " Rasselas" to the effect that the business of the poet is to remark only " general properties and large appearances. He does...streaks of the tulip, or describe the different shades in the verdure of the forest." He must " neglect the minuter discriminations for those characteristics... | |
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