 | Jean-Pons-Victor Lecoutz de Levizac - 1844 - 502 pages
...ressources pour— 36 tableau r avec soin toutcs les, &c.— 28 remarquer. THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED. The business of a poet, said Imlac, is to examine, not the individual, out the species ; to remark general properties and 29(large appearances) : he does not number the streaks... | |
 | Jean-Pons-Victor Lecoutz de Levizac - 1846 - 584 pages
...of something which I had never beheld before, or never heeded 28. XIII. THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED. The business of a poet, said Imlac, is to examine,...to remark general properties and (large appearances 29 :) he does not number the streaks of the tulip, or describe the different shades in the verdure... | |
 | Jean Pons Victor Lecoutz de Levizac - 1850 - 566 pages
...examine, not the individual, but the species: to remark general properties and large appearances 11 ; he does not number the streaks of the tulip, or describe...portraits of nature, such prominent and striking features 12, as recal the original to every mind, and must neglect the minuter discriminations 13, which one... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1856 - 122 pages
...study; and every country wnich I have surveyed has contributed something to my poetical powers." " The business of a poet," said Imlac, " is to examine,...streaks of the tulip, or describe the different shades of the verdure of the forest. He is to exhibit in his portraits 0* nature such prominent and striking... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1856 - 112 pages
...cannot walk abroad without the sight of something which I had never beheld before, or never heeded." " The business of a poet," said Imlac, " is to examine,...the streaks of the tulip, or describe the different shados of the verdure of the forest. He is to exhibit in his portraits o. nature such prominent and... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 660 pages
...cannot walk abroad without the sight of something which I never beheld before, or never heeded." " The business of a poet," said Imlac, " is to examine,...remark general properties and large appearances : he docs not number the streaks of the tulip, or describe the different shades in the verdure of the forest.... | |
 | John Clark Ferguson - 1856 - 90 pages
...several eminent writers on the subject. Dr. Johnson was of opinion that " a poet is one whose business it is to examine, not the individual, but the species,...to remark general properties and large appearances, not to number the streaks of the tulip, or describe the different shades of the verdure of the forest,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1876 - 430 pages
...cannot walk abroad without the sight of something which I had never beheld before or never heeded." " The business of a poet," said Imlac, '>is to examine,...properties and large appearances ; he does not number the strcaka of the tulip, or describe the different shades in the verdure of the forest He is to exhibit... | |
 | 1881 - 884 pages
...a theory propounded in " Rasselas" to the effect that the business of the poet is to remark only " general properties and large appearances. He does...different shades in the verdure of the forest." He must " neglect the minuter discriminations for those characteristics which are alike obvious to vigilance... | |
 | William Gilpin - 1883 - 428 pages
...His opinion therefore, in a point of this kind, was unbiassed. ' The business of a poet,' says he, ' is, to examine — not the individual, but the species — to remark general, and large appearances. He does not number the streaks of the Tulip, nor describe the different shades... | |
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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. 
