 | John Watkins - 1822 - 476 pages
...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 there are, they can be made no more ; they can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very... | |
 | John Watkins - 1822 - 452 pages
...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 there are, they can be made no more ; they can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 646 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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 450 pages
...suppression and addition equally corrupt it; and such as it is, it is known already. few, and bemg few, are universally known; but, few as they are,...they can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment, md very little from novelty of expression. From poetry the reader j ustly expects, and from good poetry... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 pages
...invention ; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprizes 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 - 1826 - 430 pages
...invention; sueit invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally...little from novelty of expression. Poetry pleases by exhihiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford. This effect proceeds from... | |
 | 1826
...author. Nor will it easily be admitted that devotional topics, be they few, or be they numerous, " can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression." All this is crude and prejudiced * theory, in opposition to facts, and to the judgment and feelings... | |
 | Henry Hunter - 1828 - 356 pages
...unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally knoxvn ; but few as they are, they can be made no more ; they...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,... | |
 | 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 - 646 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 the latter,... | |
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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... 
