 | Samuel Johnson - 1864 - 460 pages
...such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotien are few, and being few are universally known ; but,...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 Wilson - 1864 - 334 pages
...invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally...Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful in the mind than things themselves afford. This effect proceeds from the display of those parts of... | |
 | John Wilson - 1870 - 732 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 182 ISS novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression. Poetry pleases by exhibiting... | |
 | William Morley Punshon - 1873 - 400 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." Such an unworthy definition of poetry might answer for an age of lampooners, when merry quips and conceits... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - 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,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 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 noveliy of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression. DR. S. JOHNSON : Life of Waller.... | |
 | John Keble - 1877 - 588 pages
...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 proceeds from the display of those parts of nature which attract,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 pages
...invention ; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics the condition of society and the nature of man. He shows us the court, the camp, DR. S. JOHNSON : Life of Waller. There is something so natively great and good in a person that is... | |
 | William Morley Punshon - 1881 - 296 pages
...invention as, by producing something unex. pected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion aro few, and being few are universally known ; but few...sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression." Such an unworthy definition of poetry might answer for an age of lampooners, when merry quips and fantastic... | |
 | William Morley Punshon - 1882 - 518 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." Such an unworthy definition of poetry might answer for an age of lampooners, when merry quips and fantastic... | |
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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... 
