 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 pages
...which I have surveyed has contributed something to my PO* etical powers." *In so wide a survey," said the prince, "you must surely have left much unobserved....which I had never beheld before, or never heeded." "The business of a poet," said Imlac, "is to examine, not the individual, but the species; to remark... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...which I have surveyed, has contributed something to my poetical powers." " In so wide a survey," said the prince, " you must surely have left much unobserved....which I had never beheld before, or never heeded.'' " The business of a poet," said Imlac, " is to examine, not the individual, but the species; to remark... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Historical fiction - 1809 - 210 pages
...surveyed has contributed something to my poetical powers." " In so wide a survey," said the prince, " yon must surely have left much unobserved. I have lived till now within the circuit of the mountains, and yet cannot walk abroad without the sight of something .which •I had never beheld... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1810 - 230 pages
...which I have surveyed lias contributed something to my poetical powers." " In so wide a survey, said the prince, you must surely have left much unobserved....which I had never beheld before, or never heeded." " The business of a poet, said Imlac, is to examine, not the individual, but the species : to remark... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English fiction - 1811 - 194 pages
...which I have surveyed has contributed something to my poetical powers." " In so wide a survey," said the prince, "you must surely have left much unobserved....which I had never beheld before, or never heeded." - ' " The business of a poet," said Imlac, " is to examine, not the individual, but the species ; to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 428 pages
...I have surveyed, has contributed something to my poetical powers." • " In so wide a survey," said the prince, " you must surely have left much unobserved....which I had never beheld before, or never heeded." "The business of a poet," said Imlac,"isto examine, not the individual, but the species ; to remark... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - English fiction - 1811 - 250 pages
...poetical powers." " In so wide a survey," said the prince, " you must surely have left much unobserved. 1 have lived till now, within the circuit of these mountains,...without the sight of something which I had never beheld belore, or never heeded." " The business of a poet," said Imlac, "is to examine, not the individual,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...which I have surveyed bas contributed something to my poetical powers.' ' In so wide a survey,' said the prince, ' you must surely have left much unobserved....mountains, and yet cannot walk abroad without the *ight of something which I never beheld before, or never heeded.' ' The business of a poet,' said Imlac,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1815 - 272 pages
...survey," said the prince, *' you must surely have left much unobserved. T have lived, till now, within ihe circuit of these mountains, and yet cannot walk abroad...which I had never beheld before, or never heeded." "The business of a poet," said Imlac, "is to examine, not the individual, but the species ; to remark... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English fiction - 1816 - 250 pages
...which I have surveyed has contributed something to my poetical powers." " In so wide a survey," said the prince, " you must surely have left much unobserved....which I had never beheld before, or never heeded." " The business of a poet," said Imlac, " is to examine, not the individual, but the species; to remark... | |
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... scenes, and of gratifying his reader with remote allusions and unexpected instruction. All the appearances of nature I was therefore careful to study, and every country which I have surveyed has contributed something to my poetical powers. In so wide... 
