| Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1759 - 176 pages
...defcribe what I had not feen : I could not hope to move thofe with delight or terrour, whofe interefts and opinions I did not underftand. " Being now refolved to be a poet, I faw everything withanewpurpofe; my fphere of attention was fuddenly magnified : no kind of knowledge was... | |
| 1759 - 422 pages
...delight or terror, whofe interelii1 and opinions I did not underitand. Being now refolved to be a poef, I faw every thing with a new purpofe ; my fphere 'of attention was fuddenly magnified; r.or liind of knowledge was to be overlooked. I ranged mountains and deferts for imajju1 and refemblances,... | |
| Giuseppe Baretti - Language and languages - 1772 - 490 pages
...purpole ; my inhere of attention was fuddenly magnified : no kind oí; knowledge was to be o^erlooked. I ranged mountains and deferts for 'images and refemblances....pictured upon my mind every tree of the foreft and every flower of the valley. I obfcrvpofejjion de là naturaleza ; y fut /ucceffbres de el arte: que... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 534 pages
...not hope to move thole with delight or terrour, whofe interefts and opinions I did not understand. " Being now refolved to be a poet, I faw every thing...pictured upon my mind every tree of the foreft and flower of the valley. I obferved with equal care the crags of the rock and the pinnacles of the palace.... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 560 pages
...defcribe what I had not feen : I could not hope to move thofe with delight or terrour, whofe interefts and opinions I did not underftand. " Being now refolved to be a poet, I faw every thing with a new purpofej my fphere of attention •was fuddenly magnified : no kind of knowledge was to be overlooked.... | |
| English fiction - 1788 - 778 pages
...hope to move thoie with drlight or tcrrour, whofe ¡ntcrcils and opinions I did not ur.derftand. ' Being now refolved to be a poet, I faw every thing with a new purpolc) my fphere of attention was I'uildenly magnified: no kind or knowledge was to beóverlcrvked.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1790 - 318 pages
...terrour, whofe interefts and opinions I did not underftand. " Being now refolvcd to be a poet, i 1 faw every thing with a new purpofe ; my fphere of...knowledge was to be overlooked. I ranged mountains and dfferts for images and refemblanceSi and pi<flured upon my mind every ucc of the foreft and flower... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 586 pages
...defcribe what I had not feen : I could not hope to move thofe with delight or terrour, whofe interefts and opinions I did not underftand. " Being now refolved to be a poet, I faw everything with a new purpofe ; my fphere of attention was fuddenly magnified : no kind of knowledge... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1797 - 516 pages
...defcribe what I had not feen : I could not hope to move thofe with delight or terror, whofe interdis and opinions I did not underftand. " Being now refolved...mountains and deferts for images and refemblances, and piftured upon my mind every tree of the foreft and flower of the valley. I obferved with equal care... | |
| 1797 - 522 pages
...defcribe what I had not feen : I could not hope to move thofe with delight or terror, wb'j'.e interefts and opinions I did not underftand. " Being now refolved...magnified : no kind of knowledge was to be overlooked. 1 ranged mountains and deferts for images and refemblances, and pictured upon my mind every tree of... | |
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