 | William Morley Punshon - 1882 - 500 pages
...invention ; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally...sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression." Such an unworthy definition of poetry might answer for an age of lampooners, when merry quips and fantastic... | |
 | 1890 - 660 pages
...yet certainly have yielded the fullest contentment to the Inquisition. Johnson says : " The topicks of devotion are few, and being few, are universally...sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression." The stage is a magician, with strange and singular gifts and powers, who exacts rigidly his dues both... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 704 pages
...little from novelty of expression. Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford. This effect proceeds from...the display of those parts of nature which attract, and the concealment of those which repel the imagination ; but religion must be showed as it is ; suppression... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 670 pages
...invention, such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally...exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford. This effect proceeds from the display of those parts of nature which attract,... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 660 pages
...invention, such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally...exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford. This effect proceeds from the display of those parts of nature which attract,... | |
 | Henry Schütz Wilson - 1896 - 308 pages
...yet certainly have yielded the fullest contentment to the Inquisition. Johnson says : ' The topicks of devotion are few, and being few, are universally...sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression.' The stage is a magician, with strange and singular gifts and powers, who exacts rigidly his dues both... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1899 - 570 pages
...Johnson, following Pope, declares that "the essence of poetry is invention," and goes on to say that " poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford." Wordsworth maintained that " poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful... | |
 | Arthur Edwin Gregory - 1905 - 374 pages
...expression in a hymn.' 1 Dr. Johnson declared that sacred poetry must always be poor because ' the topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally known ; but few as they are can be made no more.' To this criticism Keble replied in his essay on Sacred Poetry — How can the... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1910 - 196 pages
...invention ; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topicks of devotion are few, and being few are universally...exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford. This effect proceeds from the display of those parts of nature which attract,... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1911 - 664 pages
...invention, such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally...exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford. This effect proceeds from the display of those parts of nature which attract,... | |
| |
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... 
