 | Tobias Smollett - 1779 - 510 pages
...mercy. ' Of fentiments purely religious, it will be found that the moft. Ample expreflion is the moll fublime. Poetry lofes its luftre and its power, becaufe...delight the ear, and for thefe purpofes it may be veryufeful; but it fupplies nothing to the mind. The ideas of Chriftian. theology are too fimple for... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 318 pages
...fupplication to God can only cry for mercy. Of fentiments purely religious; it will be found that the mofl fimple expreffion is the moft fublime. Poetry lofes...of fomething more excellent than itfelf. All that vcrfe can do is to help the memory, and delight the ear, and for thefe purpoies it may be very ufeful... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 358 pages
...that the moft fimple expreffion is the moft fublime. Poetry lofes its luftre and its power, bccaufe it is applied to the decoration of fomething more excellent than itfelf. All that vcrfe can do is to help the memory, and delight the ear, and for thcfc purpofes k maybe veryufeful... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 336 pages
...diffufe itklf through many topicks of perfuafion ; but ^application to God can only cry for merey. Of fentiments purely religious, it will be found that...memory, and delight the ear, and for thefe purpofes it maybe veryufeful ; but it fupplies .nothing to the mind. The ideas of Chrifi tian ifcuagr £Tc too... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 498 pages
...only cry for mercy. Of fentiments purely religious, it will be found that the moft fimple expreflion is the moft fublime. Poetry lofes its luftre and its...is to help the memory, and delight the ear, and for thele purpofes it may be very ufeful ; but it lupflies nothing to the mind. The ideas of Chrifa tian... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 478 pages
...leifure for cadences and epithets. Supplication of man to man may diffufe itielf through many topicks of perfuafion ; but fupplication to God can only cry...of fomething more excellent than itfelf. All that pious verfe can do is to help the memory, and delight the ear, and for thele purpofes it may be very... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...leifure for cadences and epithets. ' Supplication of man to man may diffufe itfelf through many topicks of perfuafion ; but fupplication to God can only cry...of fomething more excellent than itfelf. All that pious verfe can do is to help the memory, and delight the ear, and for thefe purpofes it may be very... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...leifure for cadences and epithets. Supplication of man to man may diffufe itfelf through many topicks of perfuafion ; but fupplication to God can only cry...of fomething more excellent than itfelf. All that pious verfe can do is to help the memory, and delight the ear, and for thefe purpofes it may be very... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 498 pages
...fentiments purely religious, it will be found thr. the moft lunple expreffion is the moft fublime. Poxrcrr lofes its luftre and its power, becaufe it is applied...to the decoration of fomething more excellent than itlcif. All that pious verfe can do is to help the memory, ^ delight the ear, and for thefc purpofcs... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 344 pages
...leifure for cadences and epithets. Supplication of man to man may diffufe itfelf through many topicks of perfuafion; but fupplication to God can only cry...of fomething more excellent than itfelf. All that pious verfe can do is to help the memory, and delight the ear, and for thefe purpofes it may be very... | |
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Poetry loses its lustre and its power, because it is applied to the decoration of something more excellent than itself. All that pious verse can do, is to help the memory and delight the ear, and for these purposes it may be very useful ; but it supplies... 
