 | Scott D. Evans - 1999 - 180 pages
...indiscriminate representation emphasize the aesthetic. In the Life of Waller, for instance, he says: Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things diemselves afford. This effect proceeds from the display of those parts of nature which attract,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 2006 - 480 pages
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 | Samuel Johnson - 2006 - 612 pages
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 | Roger Lonsdale - 2006 - 464 pages
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 | Bernd Auerochs - 2006 - 548 pages
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 | Bernd Auerochs - 2006 - 550 pages
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 | Samuel Johnson - 2006 - 528 pages
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 | John Wilson - 2007 - 440 pages
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 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 530 pages
...invention ; such invention as, fay 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,... | |
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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... 
