| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 sider
...enthufiaftick fit, and was proceeding to aggrandize his own profeffion, when the prince cried out, tc Enough! thou haft convinced me, that no human being can ever be a poet. Proceed with thy narration." " To be a poet, laid Imlac, is indeed very difficult." " So difficult,... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 560 sider
...enthufiaftick fit, and was proceeding to aggrandize his own profeflion, when the prince cried out, " Enough! thou haft convinced me, that no human being can ever be a poet. Proceed with thy narration." " To be a poet, faid Imlac, is indeed very difficult." " So difficult,... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 534 sider
...enthufiaftick fit, and was proceeding to aggrandize his own profefiion, when the prince cried out,/" Enough 1 thou haft convinced me, that no human being can ever be a poet./ Proceed with thy narration." " To be a poet, faid Imlac, is indeed very difficult." " So difficult,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1790 - 318 sider
...enthufiaftick fit, and was proceeding to aggrandize his own profeffion, when the prince cried out, " Enough ! thou haft convinced me, that no human being can ever be a poet. Proceed with thy narration." " To be a poet," faid Imlac, " is indeed very difficult." " So difficult,"... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 586 sider
...enthufiaftick fit, and was proJL ceeding to aggrandize his own profeffion, when the prince cried out, " Enough ! thou haft convinced me, that no human being can ever be a poet. Proceed with thy narration." " To be a poet, laid Imlac, is indeed very difficult." " So difficult,... | |
| Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1794 - 426 sider
...aggrandizing his own profeffion, makes the Prince of Abyfllnia ftop him at length with thefe words—Enough! thou haft convinced me that no human being can ever...pointing out Johnfon's, when he afked whofe was that f—Johnfon the philofopher, fays one in company—Johnfon the great WRITER, cries another interrupting... | |
| 1805 - 540 sider
...engineer.' Thefe are fo rare, and fo many, as to remind us of the reply of Raffehs to Imlac: ' Enough I thou haft convinced me that no human being can ever be a poet ! ' But after a man has acquired this long detail of preliminaryknowledge, we very much doubt of his... | |
| 1840 - 1176 sider
...nearly the same answer as that which Rasselas gave to Imlac's panegyric on poetry " Enough ! thou hast convinced me that no human being can ever be a poet" — and, like the sage, we should then be forced to confess, that to be an historian " is indeed very difficult."... | |
| Henry Howard, Frank Howard - 1848 - 398 sider
...decrepitude of old age." We are not surprised, then, to find Rasselas exclaim, — " Enough ! thou hast convinced me that no human being can ever be a poet." And yet, all that Imlac has there stated to be requisite for the poet is equally necessary for the painter,... | |
| 1861 - 246 sider
...When Imlac had recounted to the Prince the requisites for a poet, Rasselas replied: "Enough! thou hast convinced me that no human being can ever be a poet." And, possibly, when the qualifications and culture requisite for the practice of medicine are presented,... | |
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