 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 pages
...elegantly little. The plants of the Garden, the animals of the wood, the minerals of the earth, and meteors of the sky, must all concur to store his mind...inexhaustible variety: for every idea is useful for the enforcement or decoration of moral or religious truth ; and he who knows most, will have most powe.r... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...elegantly little. The plants of the garden, the animals of the wood, the minerals of the earth, and meteors of the sky, must all concur to store his mind...inexhaustible variety: for every idea is useful for the enforcement or decoration of moral or religious truth ; and he, who knows most, will have most power... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Historical fiction - 1809 - 210 pages
...elegantly little. The plants of the garden, the animals of the wood, the minerals of the earth, and meteors of the sky, must all concur to store his mind...inexhaustible variety; for every idea is useful for the enforcement or decoration of moral or religions truth; and he who knows most, will have most power... | |
 | John Opie - Painting - 1809 - 312 pages
...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 meteors of the sky, must undergo his examination. To a painter or poet nothing can be useless : whatever is great, whatever... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 458 pages
...elegantly little. The plants of the garden, the animals of the wood, the minerals of the earth, and meteors of the sky, must all concur to store his mind...inexhaustible variety : for every idea is useful for the enforcement or decoration of moral or religious truth ; and he, who knows most, will have most power... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1810 - 230 pages
...elegantly little. The plants of the garden, the animals of the wood, the minerals of the earth , and meteors of the sky, must all concur to store his mind...inexhaustible variety ; for every idea is useful for the enforcement or decoration of moral or religious truth ; and he who knows most, will have most power... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 428 pages
...elegantly little. The plants of the garden, the animals of the wood, the minerals of the earth, and meteors of the sky, must all concur to store. his...inexhaustible variety : for every idea is useful for the enforcement or decoration of moral or religious truth ; and he, who knows most, will have most power... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English fiction - 1811 - 194 pages
...elegantly little. The plants of the garden, the animals of the wood, the minerals of the earth, and meteors of the sky, must all concur to store his mind...inexhaustible variety; for every idea is useful for the enforcement or decoration of moral or religious truth ; and he who knows most, will hare most power... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - English fiction - 1811 - 250 pages
...elegantly little. The plants of the garden, the animals of the wood, the minerals of the earth, and meteors of the sky, must all concur to store his mind...inexhaustible variety : for every idea is useful for the enforcement or decoration of moral or religious truth ; and he, who knows most, will have most power... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...or elegantly little. The plants of the garden, the animals of the wood, the minerals of the earth, the meteors of the sky, must all concur to store his...inexhaustible variety : for every idea is useful for the enforcement or decoration of moral or religious truth : and he who knows most will have most power... | |
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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 plants of the garden, the animals of the wood, the minerals... 
