 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...an imagination capable of painting nature, and realizing fiction. Nor is he yet a poet till he has attained the whole extension of his language, distinguished...and all the colours of words, and learned to adjust their different sounds to all the varieties of metrical modulation. Bossu is of opinion, that the poet's... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pages
...an imagination capable of painting nature, and realizing fiction. Nor is lie yet a poet till he has attained the whole extension of his language, distinguished...and all the colours of words, and learned to adjust theijf different sounds to all the varieties of metrical modulation; Bossu is of opinion that the poet's... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...an imagination capable of painting nature, and realising fictioa; nor is he yet a poet till 'he has attained the whole extension of his language, distinguished...sounds to all the va.rieties of metrical modulation. , Life of MiltonIt is certain that no estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations, than those... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...art imagination capable of painting nature, and realizing fiction. Nor is He yet a poet till he has attained the whole extension of his language, distinguished...and all the colours of words, and learned to adjust theii: different sounds to all the varieties of metrical modulation; Bossu is of opinion that the poet's... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 pages
...an imagination capable of painting nature, and realizing fiction. Nor is he yet a poet till he has attained the whole extension of his language, distinguished...and all the colours of words, and learned to adjust their different sounds to all the varieties of metrical modulation. Bossu is of opinion, that the poet's... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...capable of painting nature, and realizing fiction. Nor is he yet a poet till he has attained the *rhole extension of his language, distinguished all the delicacies of phrase, and all the colors of •.vords, and learned to adjust their different sounds to all the varieties of metrical... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...an imagination capable of painting nature, and realizing fiction. Nor is he yet a poet till he has attained the whole extension of his language, distinguished...and all the colours of words, and learned to adjust their different sounds to all the Varieties of metrical modulation. Bossu is of opinion, that the poet's... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...an imagination capable of painting nature, and realizing fiction. Nor is he yet a poet till he has attained the whole extension of his language, distinguished...and all the colours of words, and learned to adjust their different sounds to all the varieties of metrical modulation. Bossu is of opinion, that the poet's... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...an imagination capable of painting nature, and realizing fiction. Nor is he yet a poet till he has attained the whole extension of his language, distinguished...and all the colours of words, and learned to adjust their different sounds to all the varieties of metrical modulation, Bossu is of opinion that the poet's... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...an imagination capable of painting nature, and realizing fiction. Nor is he yet a poet til! he has attained the whole extension of his language, distinguished...and all the colours of words, and learned to adjust their different sounds to ail the varieties of metrical modulation. Bossu is of opinion that the poet's... | |
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... discriminations of character, and the tendency of the passions, either single or combined ; and physiology must supply him with illustrations and images. To put these materials to poetical use, is required an imagination capable of painting nature,... 
