 | John Hepburn Millar - 1902 - 412 페이지
...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... | |
 | 1902 - 414 페이지
...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... | |
 | Armine Thomas Kent - 1905 - 300 페이지
...effect that the business of the poet is to remark only " general properties and large appearances. He does not number the streaks of the tulip, or describe...different shades in the verdure of the forest." He must " neglect the minuter discriminations for those characteristics which are alike obvious to vigilance... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1881 - 918 페이지
...effect that the business of the poet is to remark only " general properties and large appearances. He does not number the streaks of the tulip, or describe...different shades in the verdure of the forest." He must " neglect the minuter discriminations for those characteristics which are alike obvious to vigilance... | |
 | Andrew Lang, John Churton Collins - 1907 - 588 페이지
...minutest objects. When Johnson observed, or rather makes Imlac in his Rasselas observe, that "the poet does not number the streaks of the tulip, or describe...different shades in the verdure of the forest," he does not seem to be aware that this was just what his contemporaries were beginning to do. Tennyson... | |
 | 1908 - 464 페이지
...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...of nature such prominent and striking features as recall the original to every mind, and must neglect the minuter discriminations, which one may have... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1908 - 476 페이지
...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...of nature such prominent and striking features as recall the original to every mind, and must neglect the minuter discriminations, which one may have... | |
 | William Paton Ker - 1909 - 32 페이지
...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.' But in the Journey the explorer wishes he could remember things more clearly. ' He who has not made... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 204 페이지
...large appearances. He does not number the streaks of the tulip, or describe the different shades of the verdure of the forest. He is to exhibit in his...of nature such prominent and striking features as recall the original to every mind, and must neglect the minuter discriminations, which one may have... | |
 | John Clare - 1986 - 264 페이지
...quote Johnson again, 'the business of a poet ... is to examine, not the individual, but the species ... he does not number the streaks of the tulip, or describe...the different shades in the verdure of the forest'. Clare ignored this advice. He habitually counted the eggs in birds' nests and noted how 'the odd number... | |
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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. 
