 | Arts - 1837 - 520 pages
...tolerable poetry are two very different things. " ' To a poet nothing can be useless,' said Imlac, ' whatever is beautiful and whatever is dreadful must...with all that is awfully vast, or elegantly little. The plants of the garden, the animals of the wood, the minerals of the earth, and meteors of the sky,... | |
 | Rembrandt Peale - American literature - 1839 - 276 pages
...claim A palm like his, and catch from him the hallowed flame. WC Bryant. MATERIALS OF POETRY. To a poet nothing can be useless. Whatever is beautiful, and...with all that is awfully vast, or elegantly little. The plants of the garden, the animals of the wood, the minerals of the earth, and meteors of the sky,... | |
 | Andrew Park - 1839 - 306 pages
...originality of matter, &c. exceeds any periodical of the price—2rf. " To a poet," says Dr. Johnson, " nothing can be useless. Whatever is beautiful, and...with all that is awfully vast, or elegantly little. The plants of the garden, the animals of the wood, the minerals of the earth, and the meteors of the... | |
 | The Mirror of Literature,Amusement,and Instruction: VOL.XXXIII - 1839 - 446 pages
...delight« in ignorance and theretore, despises truth. "To a poet," says Dr. Johnson, "nothing can he useless. Whatever is beautiful, and whatever is dreadful, must be familiar to bis imagination : he must be conversant with all that is awfully vast, or elegantly little. The plants... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Readers (Elementary) - 1841 - 286 pages
...along the mazes of the rivulet, and sometimes watched the changes of the summer clouds. ' To a poet nothing can be useless. Whatever is beautiful, and...with all that is awfully vast or elegantly little. The plants of the garden, the animals of the wood, the minerals of the earth, and meteors of the sky,... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 608 pages
...those who would invoke her rightly. "In a poet no kind of knowledge is to be overlooked ; to a poet nothing can be useless. Whatever is beautiful and...with, all that is awfully vast or elegantly little. The plants of the garden, the animals of the wood, the minerals of the earth, the meteors of Ihe sky,... | |
 | Jean-Pons-Victor Lecoutz de Levizac - French language - 1844 - 496 pages
...sometimes watched the changes of the summer clouds. To a poet nothing can be useless. Whatever is beauliful and whatever is dreadful must be familiar to his imagination : he must "(be conversant) with all that 2:<(is awfully vast or elegantly little). The plants of the garden, the animals of the wood, the minerals... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1847 - 606 pages
...overlooked. To a poet nothing can be useless. What- [ ever is beautiful, and whatever is dreadful, f must be familiar to his imagination. He « must be conversant with all that is awfully I vast, or elegantly little. The plants of the 3 garden, the animals of the wood, the minerals of the... | |
 | Charles Jean Delille - 1844 - 476 pages
...wandered along the mazes of the 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 i';.miliar to his imagination : he must be conversant with all that is awfully vast or elegantly little.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1846 - 416 pages
...wandered along the mazes of the rivulet, and sometimes watched the changes of the summer clouds. To a poet nothing can be useless. Whatever is beautiful, and...with all that is awfully vast or elegantly little. The plants of the garden , the animals of the wood, the minerals of the earth, and meteors of the sky,... | |
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To a poet nothing can be useless. Whatever is beautiful and whatever is dreadful must be familiar to his imagination ; he must be conversant with all that is awfully vast or elegantly little. 
