 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 646 pages
...BOSWELL. QUOTATIONS. Imlac's Description of the Requirements of a Poet. — " The business of a poet is to examine not the individual, but the species...or describe the different shades in the verdure of a forest. He is to exhibit in his portraits of nature such prominent and striking features as recall... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 612 pages
...BosWELL. QUOTATIONS. Imlac's Description of the Requirements of a Poet. — " The business of a poet is to examine not the individual, but the species;...or describe the different shades in the verdure of a forest. He is to exhibit in his portraits of nature such prominent and striking features as recall... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1891 - 284 pages
...walk abroad without the sight of something which I had 10 never beheld before, or never heeded." " The business of a poet," said Imlac, " is to examine,...streaks of the tulip, or describe the different shades 15 in the verdure of the forest : he is to exhibit in his portraits of nature such prominent and striking... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1892 - 666 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,...in the verdure of the forest. He is to exhibit in hij portraits of nature such prominent and striking features as recall the original to every mind,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1895 - 252 pages
...hllt tVl£^r"-'"SJ to remark Qperties and large appearances. He does not number the streaJcs~6Ftlie tulip, or describe the different shades in the verdure of the forest. He is 15 to exhibit in his portraits of nature such prominent and striking features as recall- the original... | |
 | James Kirby - 1897 - 424 pages
...grandeur of the outline of the surrounding hills. "The business of the poet," said 1m lac in Rasselas, " is to examine, not the individual, but the species;...appearances ; he does not number the streaks of the tulip, nor describe the different shades in the verdure of the forest." No; he deals not with minute details... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1898 - 228 pages
...never beheld before, or never heeded.' ' The business of a poet,' said Imlac, ' is to examine, not jo the individual, but the species ; to remark general...the forest : he is to exhibit in his portraits of natum such prominent and striking features, as recal the original t£ every I PRINCE OF ABrSSINIA.... | |
 | 1899 - 972 pages
...Imlac, to the Prince of Abyssinia, spoke thus concerning the poet's art : <( The business of a poet is to examine, not the individual, but the species...appearances; he does not number the streaks of the tulip, nor describe the different shades in the verdure of the forest. He is to exhibit in his portraits of... | |
 | 1902 - 414 pages
...manners ; not an individual but a species." Thus a novelist should be like Imlac's poet, who is not to " number the streaks of the tulip, or describe the different shades in the verdure of the forest," but to " mark general properties and large appearances." How consistently he worked on the lines thus... | |
 | John Hepburn Millar - 1902 - 412 pages
...manners ; not an individual but a species." Thus a novelist should be like Imlac's poet, who is not to " number the streaks of the tulip, or describe the different shades in the verdure of the forest," but to " mark general properties and large appearances." How consistently he worked on the lines thus... | |
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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. 
