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 3711888Full view - About this book
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - English literature - 1885 - 614 pages
...every delicacy of speech and grace of harmony." Here the prince, Rasselas, interrupted the old poet: " Enough ; thou hast convinced me that no human being can ever be a poet." [This last sentence is probably the best known quotation from Johnson's writings.] " Whoever thou art,... | |
 | Andrew Lang - Authors - 1886 - 256 pages
...training in all the mechanics and metaphysics of criticism might have made you exclaim, like Rasselas, ' Enough ! Thou hast convinced me that no human being can ever be a Poet.' Unhappily, you succeeded in convincing Cardinal Richelieu that to be a Poet was well within your powers,... | |
 | 1886 - 726 pages
...else, in which case, ah then, it would be excellent. ' Enough,' said Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, ' thou hast convinced me that no human being can ever be a poet.' Mr. Halford, the author of ' Floating Flies, and how to Dress Them ' (Sampson Low), has convinced me... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1887 - 642 pages
...and to its power and might the love and reverence of a man. " Enough ! " cries Rasselas to Imlac, " thou hast convinced me that no human being can ever be a poet." And I have convinced myself that the conditions of the sea-life in these times prohibit the most ardent... | |
 | Price Collier - 1888 - 48 pages
...a genius; at its next to all intelligent men; and at its third to all the human race" — MALLOCK. "Enough, thou hast convinced me that no human being can ever be a poet. Proceed with thy narration." — RASSELAS. "Der Wage gleicht die grossc Welt "Das Leichte steight das... | |
 | Arthur Octavius Prickard - Philosophy - 1891 - 196 pages
...enthusiastic fit, and was proceeding to aggrandise his own profession, when the prince cried out, ' Enough ! thou hast convinced me that no human being can ever be a poet."' — Johnson, Rasselas, chaps. 10, 11. 19 Rhet. 2, 5 (i382a2i). 20 ^pvvi^ov Kai Aur^vX.ov rrjv Tpayio&iav... | |
 | Literature - 1893 - 558 pages
...to read them, and Mr. Lecky's especially, without recalling the Prince of Abyssinia's despairing cry to Imlac, " Enough ! Thou hast convinced me that no human being can ever be a poet." Do all the members of the Birmingham Institute, all the undergraduates who take their degrees in the... | |
 | William Clark Russell - 1893 - 352 pages
...and to its power and might the love and reverence of a man. " Enough ! " cries Easselas to Imlac, " thou hast convinced me that no human being can ever be a poet." And I have convinced myself that the conditions of the sea-life in these times prohibit the most ardent... | |
 | William Sharp - Homeopathy - 1894 - 244 pages
...created him." ****** " Imlac was proceeding to aggrandize his own profession, when th prince cried out, 'Enough ! thou hast convinced me that no human being can ever be a poet, Proceed with thy narrative.' "' ' To be a poet,' said Imlac, ' is indeed very difficult.' ' So difficult,'... | |
| |