 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 462 pages
...fummer clouds. To a poet nothing can be ufelefs. Whatever is beautiful, and whatever is dreadful, muft be familiar to his imagination : he muft be converfant...the animals of 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 pages
...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 of the earth, and meteors of the sky, must all concur to store his mind with inexhaustible variety: for every idea... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...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 of the earth, and meteors of the sky, must all concur to store his mind with inexhaustible variety: for every idea... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Historical fiction - 1809 - 210 pages
...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 of the earth, and meteors of the sky, must all concur to store his mind with inexhaustible variety; for every idea... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1810 - 230 pages
...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 of the earth , and meteors of the sky, must all concur to store his mind with inexhaustible variety ; for every... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 428 pages
...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 of the earth, and meteors of the sky, must all concur to store. his mind with inexhaustible variety : for every idea... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English fiction - 1811 - 194 pages
...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 of the earth, and meteors of the sky, must all concur to store his mind with inexhaustible variety; for every idea... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - English fiction - 1811 - 250 pages
...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 of the earth, and meteors of the sky, must all concur to store his mind with inexhaustible variety : for every idea... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...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...wood, the minerals of the earth, the meteors of the sky, must all concur to store his mind with inexhaustible variety : for every idea is useful for the... | |
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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... 
