 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 660 pages
...equally corrupt it ; and such as it is, it is known already. From poetry the reader justly expects, and from good poetry always obtains, the enlargement...elevation of his fancy ; but this is rarely to be hoped by Christians from metrical devotion. Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in the... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 670 pages
...equally corrupt it ; and such as it is, it is known already. From poetry the reader justly expects, and from good poetry always obtains, the enlargement...elevation of his fancy ; but this is rarely to be hoped by Christians from metrical devotion. Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 530 pages
...equally corrupt it, and such as it is, it is known already. 139 From poetry the reader justly expects, and from good poetry always obtains, the enlargement of his comprehension and eleyation of his fancy ; but this is rarely to be hoped by Christians from metrical devotion. Whatever... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1910 - 210 pages
...equally corrupt it, and such as it is, it is known already. From poetry the reader justly expects, and from good poetry always obtains, the enlargement...elevation of his fancy; but this is rarely to be hoped by Christians from metrical devotion. Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in the... | |
 | Richard Pape Cowl - 1914 - 346 pages
...equally corrupt it ; and such as it is, it is known already. From poetry the reader justly expects, and from good poetry always obtains, the enlargement...elevation of his fancy ; but this is rarely to be hoped by Christians from metrical devotion. Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in the... | |
 | Richard Pape Cowl - 1914 - 346 pages
...showed as it is ; suppression and addition equally corrupt it ; and such as it is, it is known already. poetry always obtains, the enlargement of his comprehension...elevation of his fancy ; but this is rarely to be hoped by Christians from metrical devotion. Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in the... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 438 pages
...equally corrupt it ; and such as it is, it is known already. " From poetry the reader justly expects, and from good poetry always obtains, the enlargement...elevation of his fancy ; but this is rarely to be hoped by Christians from metrical devotion. Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in the... | |
 | Percy Hazen Houston - 1923 - 346 pages
...grace from novelty of sentiment .... or of expression. . . . From poetry the reader justly expects, and from good poetry always obtains, the enlargement...and elevation of his fancy; but this is rarely to be 1. Lives, I, 49-50. 94 DOCTOR JOHNSON hoped by Christians from metrical devotion. Whatever is great,... | |
 | R. Drew Griffith - 1996 - 168 pages
...inaccurate quotation from memory of Johnson's Life of Waller ยง139: "From poetry the reader justly expects, and from good poetry always obtains, the enlargement...of his comprehension and elevation of his fancy." CHAPTER FIVE 1 Peradotto 1992. 2 Ibid., 4. 3 Ibid., 10. 4 Ibid., 11. 5 Ibid., 7-8. 6 Ibid., 7. 7 Ibid.,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 530 pages
...and such as it is, it is known already. From poetry the reader justly expects, and from good poetrv always obtains, the enlargement of his comprehension...elevation of his fancy ; but this is rarely to be hoped by Christians from metrical devotion. Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in the... | |
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From poetry the reader justly expects, and from good poetry always obtains, the enlargement of his comprehension and elevation of his fancy ; but this is rarely to be hoped by christians from metrical devotion. 
