 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...  John Bunyan: A Lecture - Page 21by William Morley Punshon - 1857 - 51 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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...sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression. Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than the things themselves afford. This... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...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...sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression. Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford. This... | |
 | 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 - 1810 - 476 pages
...invention ; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topicks of devotion are few, and being few are universally...sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression. Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford. This... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...invention ; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topicks of devotion are few, and being few are universally...sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression. Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford. This... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topicks of devotion arc few, and being few are universally known ; but few...sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression. Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford. This... | |
 | William Smith - 1814 - 330 pages
...poetry is invention ; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and til-lights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few, are...sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression* Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford. This... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 486 pages
...invention ; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topicks of devotion are few, and being few are universally...sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression. Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford. This... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 pages
...being few are universally known ; but 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 by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford. This... | |
 | 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...sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression. Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful to l lie mind than things themselves afford. This... | |
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