 IMLAC now felt the enthusiastic fit, and was proceeding to aggrandize his own profession, when the prince cried out, "Enough! Thou hast convinced me, that no human being can ever be a poet.  Littell's Living Age - Page 3591888Full view - About this book
 | William Mudford - 1802 - 166 pages
...it, and resigning himself to the dominion of fancy, will be apt to exclaim with Rasselas, " Enongh ! thou hast convinced me that no human being can ever be a poet." thing alike miserable and gloomy. The history of Imlac is not the offspring of a candid moralist who... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 pages
...the enthusiastic fit, and was proceeding to aggrandize his own profession, when the prince cried out, "Enough! thou hast convinced me that no human being can ever be a poet. Proceed with thy narration." "To be a poet," said Imlac, "is indeed very difficult."—"So difficult,"... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Historical fiction - 1809 - 210 pages
...fit, and was proceeding to aggrandize his own profession, when the prince .cried out, " Enough! thon hast convinced me that no human being can ever be a poet. Proceed wilh thy narration." " To be a poet," said Imlac, « is indeed very diffi.cult."—"So difficult,"... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1810 - 230 pages
...enthusiastic fit, and was .proceeding to aggrandize his own profession, when the prince cried out, " Enough ! thou hast convinced me that no human being can ever be a poet. Proceed with thy narration." " To be a poet, said Imlac, is indeed very difficult." " So difficult,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English fiction - 1811 - 194 pages
...enthusiastic fit, and was proceeding to aggrandize his own profession, when the prince cried out, '' Enough ! thou hast convinced me that no human being can ever be a poet. Proceed with thy narration." "To be a poet," said Imlac, "is indeed very difficult." "So difficult,"... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 428 pages
...entkusiastick fit, and was proceeding to aggrandize his own profession, when the prince cried out, " Enough ! thou hast convinced me, that no human being can ever be a poet. Proceed with thy narration." " To be a poet," said Imlac, " is indeed very difficult." " So difficult,"... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - English fiction - 1811 - 250 pages
...enthusiastick fit, and was proceeding to aggrandize his own profession, when the prince cried out, " Enough ! thou hast convinced me, that no human being can ever be a poet. Proceed with thy narration." " To be a poet," said Imlac, " is indeed very difficult." " So difficult,"... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 484 pages
...enthusiastick fit, and was proceeding to aggrandize his own profession, when the prince cried out, " Enough ! thou hast convinced me, that no human being can ever be a poet. Proceed with thy narration." " To be a poet, said Imlac, is indeed very difficult." " So difficult,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English fiction - 1816 - 250 pages
...enthusiastic fit, and was proceeding to aggrandize his own profession, when the prince cried out, " Enough ! thou hast convinced me, that no human being can ever be. a poet. Proceed with thy narration." " To be a poet," said Imlac, " is indeed very difficult." " So difficult,"... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1817 - 194 pages
...onthusiastick fit, and was proceeding to aggrandize his own profession, when the prince cried out, '> Enough '. thou hast convinced me, that no human being can ever be a poet. Proceed with thy narration." " To be a poet," said Imlac. " is indeed very difficult." " So difficult,"... | |
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