 | William Smith - 1814 - 330 pages
...invention ; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and til-lights. 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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 484 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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 412 pages
...invention ; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topicks of devotion are few, and being few are universally...few as they are, they can be made no more ; they can receire no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression. Poetry pleases... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1819 - 644 pages
...invention ; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. Tbe topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally...Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful to l lie mind than things themselves afford. This effect proceeds from the display of those parts of nature... | |
 | 1829 - 828 pages
...surprises and delights," poetry in this sense is an unfit vehicle for the topics of devotion, which " being few are universally known ; but few as they...sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression." But if there be, as unquestionably there is, a species of poetry which, though it proceeds not from... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 466 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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 470 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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 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,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 278 pages
...invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally...can be made no more ; they can receive no grace from uovelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression. Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea... | |
 | John Watkins - 1822 - 452 pages
...and delights. The topics 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...sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression." This, in the main, is perfectly just, yet it follows not that because the truths of religion interdict... | |
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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... 
