 | 1797 - 522 pages
...ccmverfam with all that is awfully vaft or elegantly little. The plants of the garden, the ani. mals of the wood , the minerals of the earth, and meteors of the Iky, mud all concur to (lore his mind with inexhaustible variety: for every idea is ufeful for the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 462 pages
...dreadful, muft be familiar to his imagination : he muft be converfant with all that is awfully vaft or elegantly little. The plants of the garden, the...wood, the minerals of the earth, and meteors of the fky, muft all concur to ftore his mind with inexhauftible variety : for every idea is ufeful for the... | |
 | John Opie (Maler, Grossbitannien) - Painting - 1809 - 314 pages
...and watch the changes of the clouds; in short, 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 kin examination. To a painter or poet nothing can be useless :... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...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...the animals of the wood, the minerals of the earth, the meteors of the sky, must all concur to store his mind with inexhaustible variety : for every idea... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1815 - 272 pages
...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...inexhaustible variety : for every idea is useful for the enforcemeut or decoration of moral or religious truth; and he, who knows most, will have most power... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1817 - 194 pages
...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...of the sky, must all concur to store his mind with mexhuusti ble variety : for every idea is useful for the enforcement or decoration of moral or religious... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 420 pages
...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...concur to store his mind with inexhaustible variety: £br every idea is useful for the enforcement or decoration of moral or religious truth ; and he, who... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - Theology - 1818 - 550 pages
...of the garden, the animals of the wood, the mine" rals of the earth, and meteors of the sky, should all concur to " store his mind with Inexhaustible variety; for every idea is *' useful for the tnfbrcement or decoration of moral or religious " truth i and he who knows most, will have most power... | |
 | Jean-Pons-Victor Lecoutz de Levizac - French language - 1820 - 482 pages
...imagination : he must (he conversant 22) with all that (is awfully vast or elegantly little 23). The plant» of the garden, the animals of the wood, the minerals of the eanh. and the meteors of the sky, mast all concur to store his mind with inexhaustible variety ; for... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 768 pages
...To a poet nothing can be useless. LWhatever is beautiful, and whatever is dreadful, must be familiar to his imagination ; he must be conversant with all...inexhaustible variety ; for every idea is useful for the enforcement1 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. 
