Being now resolved to be a poet, I saw every thing with a new purpose ; my sphere of attention was suddenly magnified : no kind of knowledge was to be overlooked. I ranged mountains and deserts for images and resemblances, and pictured upon my mind every... Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia - Page 28by Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 135 pagesFull view - About this book
| Samuel Johnson - 1846 - 416 pages
...and opinions I did not understand. « Being now resolved to be a poet , I saw every thing with a new purpose ; my sphere of attention was suddenly magnified;...rivulet, and sometimes watched the changes of the summer clouds. To a poet nothing can be useless. Whatever is beautiful, and whatever is dreadful, must be... | |
| William Russell - 1846 - 394 pages
...narration or description, in prose. " Being now resolved to be a poet, I saw every thing with, a new purpose; my sphere of attention was suddenly magnified...care the crags of the rock, and the pinnacles of the palaces Sometimes I wandered along the mazes of the rivulet, and sometimes watched the changes of the... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1846 - 194 pages
...interests and opinions I did not understand. "Being now resolved to be a poet, I saw every thingwith a new purpose; my sphere of attention was suddenly magnified: no kind of knowledge was to be overlooked. 1 ranged mountains and deserts for images and resemblances, and pictured upon my mind every tree of... | |
| Jean-Pons-Victor Lecoutz de Levizac - 1846 - 584 pages
...SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED. Being now resolved to be a poet, I saw every thing (with a new purpose 18;) my sphere of attention was suddenly magnified : no kind of knowledge (was to be overlooked 19.) I ranged mountains and deserts for 20 images and resemblances and (pictured upon my mind 21) every... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 560 pages
...and opinions I did not understand. " Being now resolved to be a poet, I saw every thing with a new purpose ; my sphere of attention was suddenly magnified...rivulet, and sometimes watched the changes of the summer clouds. To a poet nothing can be useless. Whatever is beautiful, and whatever is dreadful, must be... | |
| Esq. J. H. JAMES (of London.) - 1847 - 184 pages
...be done, and where little can be said. Being now resolved to be a poet, I saw everything with a new purpose; my sphere of attention was suddenly magnified ; no kind of knowledge was to be overlooked. As is the effect, such is the cause; (and) as thought, such it the power that thinks, a power impassive... | |
| Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1850 - 556 pages
...every thing with a new purpose : my sphere of attentions were suddenly magnified ; no kind of knowledge to be overlooked. I ranged mountains and deserts for...my mind every tree of the forest and flower of the village. I observed with equal care the crags of the rock and the pinnacles of the palace. Sometimes... | |
| Jean Pons Victor Lecoutz de Levizac - 1850 - 566 pages
...understand. XII. THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED. Being now resolved to be a poet, I saw every thing with a new purpose ; my sphere of attention was suddenly magnified...mountains and deserts for images and resemblances 7, and pictured upon my mind every tree of the forest and flower of the valley. I observed with equal... | |
| Charles Jean Delille - 1851 - 506 pages
...disquiet. — Spectator. Education of a poet. Being now resolved to be a poet, 1 saw everything with a new purpose ; my sphere of attention was suddenly magnified...and sometimes» watched the changes of the summer clouds. To a poet nothing can be useless. Whatever is beautiful and whatever is dreadful, must be familiar... | |
| William Russell - 1851 - 392 pages
...the sage at his meditation : 1 mingle in the crowd of cities, and bless the hermit in his cell. 2. I ranged mountains and deserts for images and resemblances,...every tree of the forest, and flower of the valley. 3. Though Homer lived, as is generally believed, only two or three centuries after the Trojan war,... | |
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