 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 pages
...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...of nature such prominent and striking features, as recal the original to every mind; and must neglect the minuter discriminations, whicli one may have... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...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...of nature such prominent and striking features as, recal the original to every mind ; and must neglect the minuter descriminations, which one may have... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Historical fiction - 1809 - 210 pages
...large appearances; he does not number the streaks of the tulip, or describe the different shades of the verdure of the forest. He is to exhibit in his...of nature such prominent and striking features, as recal the original to every mind; and must neglect the minuter discriminations, which one may have... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1810 - 230 pages
...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...of nature such prominent and striking features, as recal the original to every mind ; and must neglect the minuter discriminations, which one may have... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 458 pages
...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...of nature such prominent and striking features as recall the original to every mind ; and must neglect the minuter discriminations, which one may have... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English fiction - 1811 - 194 pages
...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...of nature such prominent and striking features, as recal the original to every mind; and'must neglect the minuter discriminations, which one may have... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 428 pages
...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...of nature such prominent and striking features as recall the original to every mind ; and must neglect the minuter discriminations, which one may have... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - English fiction - 1811 - 250 pages
...individual, but the speeies ; to remark general properties and large appearances ; he does not number the streaks of the tulip, or describe the different shades...of nature such prominent and striking features as recall the original to every mind ; and must neglect the minuter discriminations, which one may have... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...individual, but the species, to remark general properties and large appearances j he does not number the streaks of the tulip, or describe the different shades...of nature such prominent and striking features as recal the original to every mind; and must neglect the minuter discriminations, which one may have... | |
 | James Rennell - Asia Minor - 1814 - 198 pages
...his Rasselas : " The business of a Poet is to remark general properties and large appear" ances : — 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 ha/e... | |
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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. 
