 | 1820 - 286 páginas
...number 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 features, as recal the original to every mind; and must neglect the minuter discriminations, which one may have... | |
 | John Watkins - 1822 - 452 páginas
...the streaks of the tulip, or describe the different shades in the verdure of the forest. He exhibits in his portraits of nature such prominent and striking...features, as recall the original to every mind ; and he omits the minuter circumstances which one may have remarked, and another have neglected, for those... | |
 | John Watkins - 1822 - 452 páginas
...the streaks of the tulip, or describe the different shades in the verdure of the forest. He exhibits in his portraits of nature such prominent and striking"...features, as recall the original to every mind ; and he omits the minuter circumstances which one may have remarked, and another have neglected, for those... | |
 | John Watkins - 1822 - 476 páginas
...that the noble writer did not pay proper attention to the remainder of the rule, and consider that " the knowledge of nature is only half the task of a poet ; who must be acquainted likewise with all the modes of life. His character requires that he estimates... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 582 páginas
...number 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...task of a poet ; he must be acquainted likewise with all the modes of life. His character requires that he estimate the happiness and misery of every condition... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 762 páginas
...forest. Pie is to exhibit in his portraits of nature such prominent and striking features as recal must be in some interval betwixt one passion and another : whilst this interregnum last nave remarked, and another have neglected, for those characteristics which are alike obvious to vigilance... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 768 páginas
...number the streaks of the tulip, or describe the different shades of the verdure of the forest. He is to exhibit in his portraits of nature such prominent and striking features as recal the original to every mind ; and must neglect the minuter discriminations, which one may have... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 764 páginas
...number the streaks of the tulip, or describe the different shades of the verdure of the forest. He is to exhibit in his portraits of nature such prominent and striking features as recal the original to every mind ; and must neglect the minutcrdiscriminations, which onemay have remarked,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 548 páginas
...the forest. He is to exhibit in his portraits of nature such prominent and striking features as recal the original to every mind ; and must neglect the...task of a poet ; he must be acquainted likewise with all the modes of life. His character requires that he estimate the happiness and misery of every condition... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 64 páginas
...number 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 features, as recal the original to every mind; and must neglect the minuter discriminations, which one may have... | |
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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. He... 
