 | Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1759 - 176 pages
...heeded." " The bufinefs of a poet, faid Imlac, is to examine, not the individual, but the fpecies ; .to remark general properties and large appearances : he does not number the ftreaks of the tulip, or defcribe the different fhades in the verdure dure of ^he foreft. He is to... | |
 | Giuseppe Baretti - Language and languages - 1772 - 490 pages
...never heeded." The bufinefs of a poet, faid Imlac, is to examine, not the individual, but the fpecies; to remark general properties and large appearances. He does not number the ftreaks of the tulip, or defcribe the dînèrent (hades of the verdure of the fore It: he is to exhibit... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 560 pages
...heeded." " The bufmefs of a poet, faid Imlac, is to examine, not the individual, but the fpecies ; to remark general properties and large appearances; he does not number the ftreaks of the tulip, or defcribe the different fhades in the verdure of the foreft. He is to exhibit... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 546 pages
...heeded." " The bufmefs of a poet, faid Imlac, is to examine, not the individual, but the fpecies ; to remark general properties and large appearances; he does not number the ftreaks of the tulip, or defcribe the different {hades in the verdure of the foreft. He is to exhibit... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1790 - 318 pages
...heeded." " The bufmefs of a poet," faid Imlac, ft is to examine, not the individual, but the fpecies ; to remark general properties and large appearances ; he does not number the ftreaks of the tulip", or defcribe the different fhades in the verdure of the foreft. He is to exhibit... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 586 pages
...heeded." " The bufinefs of a poet, faid Imlac, is to examine, not the individual, but the fpecies ; to remark general properties and large appearances ; he does not number the ftreaks of the tulip, or defcribe the, different Jthades in the verdure of the foreft. He is to exhibit... | |
 | 1797 - 522 pages
...heeded." « The bufinefs of a poet," faid Imk, " is to examine, not the individual, but the fpecies, to remark general properties and large appearances: he does not number the fireaks of the tulip, or describe the different (hades in the verdure of the foreft. He is to exhibit... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1797 - 516 pages
...heeded." " The bufinefs of a poet," faid Imlac, " is to examine, not the individual, but the fpecies, to remark general properties and • large appearances : he does not number the ftreaks of the tulip, or defcribe the different íluuics in the verdure of the forelL He is to exhibit... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 458 pages
...heeded." " The bufinefs of a poet, faid Imlac, is to examine, not the individual, but the fpecies; to remark general properties and large appearances ; he does not number the ftreaks of the tulip, or defcribe the different fhades in the verdure of the foreft. He is to exhibit... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 462 pages
...heeded." " The bufinefs of a poet, faid Imlac, is to examine, not the individual, but the fpecies ; to remark general properties and large appearances ; he does not number the ftreaks of the tulip, or defcribe the different Ihades in the verdure of the foreft. He is to exhibit... | |
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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. 
