 | Samuel Johnson - 1838
...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 part of nature which attract,... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1838 - 400 pages
...rises in renewed radiance from the hallowing waters of Jordan. "But," resumes Johnson, "the topics of devotion are few, and being few, are universally...sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression." But the fountains of human feeling are not so soon exhausted ; and every one who is familiar with the... | |
 | 1839 - 272 pages
...renewed radiance from the hallowing waters of Jordan. • ; , " But," says Johnson, " the . topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally,...sentiment, :and very little from novelty of expression." But the fountains of human feeling are not so soon exhausted ; and every one who is familiar with the... | |
 | 1839 - 532 pages
....-.!'•. "But," says Johnson, "the topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally known; bat few as they are, they can be made no more, they can...sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression." But the fountains of human feeling are not so soon exhausted ; and every one who is familiar with the... | |
 | Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - 1834 - 716 pages
...; they can receive no grace from 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 afford. This effect proceeds from the display of those parts of nature which attract,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 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>ion. Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves atford.... | |
 | 1841 - 504 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. NO. IX. N. S, X " Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 716 pages
...invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The tonics 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 part of nature which attract,... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 422 pages
...not absolutely confound mortal beings, and humble them down even below the very dust. There may be " no grace from novelty of sentiment," and " very little from novelty of expression" — to use Dr Johnson's words — for it is neither grace nor novelty that the spirit of the poet is... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 428 pages
...not absolutely confound mortal beings, and humble them down even below the very dust. There may be " no grace from novelty of sentiment," and " very little from novelty of expression"—to use Dr Johnson's words—for it is neither grace nor novelty that the spirit of the... | |
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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... 
