 | Henry Hunter - 1794 - 508 pages
...fomething unexpected, furprifes and delights. The topics of devotion are tew, and being few are univerfally known ; but few as they are, they can be made no- more ; they can receive no grace from novelty of fentiment, and very little from novelty of expreflion. " Poetry pleafcs by exhibiting an idea more... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1795 - 610 pages
...unexpected, furprifes and delights. The topicks of devotion are few, and being few are univerfally known ; but few as they are, they can be made no more ; they can receive no grace from novelty of fentiment, and very little from novelty of expreflion. Poetry pleafes by exhibiting an idea more grateful... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pages
...few as there are, they can 'made no mote ; they can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment, an> very little from novelty of expression. Poetry pleases...exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than thin themselves afford. This effect proceeds from the display of those parts ol nature which attract,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 pages
...unexpected, furpriles and delights. The topicks. of devotion are few, and being few are univerfally known ; but, few as they are, they can be made no more; they can receive no grace from novelty of fentiment, and very little from novelty of expreffion. Poetry pleafes by exhibiting an idea more grateful... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topies .of devotion are few, and being few, are universally...exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than the things themselves afford. This effect proceeds from the display of those parts of nature which... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...invention ; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topicks of devotion are few, and being few are universally known; but, few as there are, they can be made no more ; they can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 482 pages
...furprifes and delights. The topicks of devotion are few, and being few are univerfally known ; bur, few as they are, they can be made no more ; they can receive no grace from novelty of fentiment, and very little from novelty of expreffion. Poetry pleafes by exhibiting an idea more grateful... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 636 pages
...adoration of God. ' The topics of devotion (in which a whole congregation can reasonably join) are few ; but few as they are, they can be made no more ; they...sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression.' We are inclined to admit the former of these limitations ; and even if we were to deny i*ie latter,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 pages
...invention ; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topicks of devotion are few, and being few are universally...few as they are, they can be made no more ; they can receire no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression. Poetry pleases... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1819 - 644 pages
...poetry is invention ; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. Tbe topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally...Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful to l lie mind than things themselves afford. This effect proceeds from the display of those parts of nature... | |
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The essence of poetry is invention ; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally known ; but few as they are, they can be made no more ; they can receive no... 
