 | James Montgomery - 1833 - 368 pages
...invention ; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few ; and being few, are universally...This effect proceeds from the display of those parts in nature which attract, and the concealment of those that repel the imagination ; but religion must... | |
 | 1833 - 588 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.' In this sweeping style he proceeds with criticism that, notwithstanding our deference for his great... | |
 | Henry Hunter - 1834 - 596 pages
...invention ; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics nder, and the things themselves afford. This effect proceeds from the display of those parts of nature which attract,... | |
 | Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - 1834 - 730 pages
...invention, such invention, as by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few, are universally...novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expres sion. Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves... | |
 | Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - 1834
...little from novelty of expres sion. 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 is ; suppression... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 448 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,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 448 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,... | |
 | 1837 - 638 pages
...with our limits; but the most glaring errors may be briefly examined. The topics of devotion, he says, are few, and being few, are universally known ; but...sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression. This objection, which in a greater or less degree bears upon the entire circle of literature, presses... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...invention ; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics Dearborn arc, they can be made no more ; they can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1838 - 332 pages
...invention ; such invention as, by producing somethingunexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few ; and being few, are universally...This effect proceeds from the display of those parts in nature which attract, and the concealment of those that repel the imagination ; but religion must... | |
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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... 
