 | Noah Webster - 1912 - 1218 pages
...organism. The writer puts Into it a portion of his own spiritual vitality, so that, as Dr. Johnson says, "poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford." The analysis or separating the structure into parts, is prosodical criticism;... | |
 | 1843 - 1098 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,... | |
 | Richard Pape Cowl - 1914 - 346 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,... | |
 | Richard Pape Cowl - 1914 - 346 pages
...unexpected, surprises and delights. S. JOHNSON, Lives of the Poets (Waller), 1779-1781. Selection. 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,... | |
 | Hans Meier - 1916 - 124 pages
...das Zufällige wegläßt und so ein wirkungsvolleres Bild gibt als das Leben selbst bietet.'-3o) Denn 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,... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 438 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,... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 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 shewn as it is ; suppression... | |
 | Edmund David Jones - 1924 - 636 pages
...for all the purposes of poetry, we may have on sacred subjects. Let us pass to the next objection. Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford. This effect prooeeda from the display of those parts of nature which attract,... | |
 | René Wellek - 1981 - 378 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." ("Grace" here means adornment, ornament; "sentiment" the content, the subject matter; "expression"... | |
 | Cesareo Bandera - 2010 - 333 pages
...unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally known .. . they can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression" (296). The same argument had been used by Tasso in his Discourses on the Heroic Poem: The argument... | |
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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... 
