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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... "
The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations ... - Page 138
by Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 394 pages
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Sacred Biography Or: The History of the Patriarchs, to which is Added, the ...

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...
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The Lives of the English Poets: and a Criticism of Their Work

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...
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Lives

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,...
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Lives of English poets

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...
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The works of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland. With prefaces ..., Volume 1

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...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

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...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 38

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,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and ..., Volume 9

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...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,...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 8

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 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 shown as it b ; suppression...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D.

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...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,...
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