 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 pages
...because it is applied to the decoration of something more excellent than itself. All that pious verse can do, is to help the memory and delight the ear, and for these purposes it may be very useful ; but it supplies nothing to the mind. The ideas of Christian... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...because it is applied to the decoration of something more excellent than itself. All that pious verse can do is to help the memory, and delight the ear, and for these purposes it may be very useful ; but it supplies nothing to the mind. The ideas of Christian... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...because it is applied to the decoration of something more excellent than itself. All that pious verse can do is to help the memory, and delight the ear, and for these purposes it may be very useful ; but it supplies nothing to the mind. The ideas of Christian... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 452 pages
...because it is applied to the decoration of something more excellent than itself. All that pious verse can do is to help the memory, and delight the ear, and for these purposes it may be very useful; but it supplies nothing to the mind. The ideas of Christian theology... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 426 pages
...because it is applied to the decoration of something more excellent than itself. All that pious verse can do is to help the memory, and delight the ear, and for these purposes it may be very useful ; but it supplies nothing to the mind. The ideas of christian... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...because it is applied to the decoration of something more excellent than itself. All that pious verse can do is to help the memory, and delight the ear, and for these purposes it may be very useful ; but it supplies nothing to the mind. The ideas of christian... | |
 | William Smith - 1814 - 330 pages
...lustre and its power, because it is applied to something more excellent than itself. All that verse can do, is to help the memory, and delight the ear; and for these purposes it may be very useful ; but' it supplies nothing to the mind. The ideas of Christian.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 486 pages
...because it is applied to the decoration of something more excellent than itself. All that pious verse can do is to help the memory, and delight the ear, and for these purposes it may be very useful ; but it supplies nothing to the mind. The ideas of Christian... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 pages
...because it is applied to the decoration of something more excellent than itself. All that pious verse can do is to help the memory, and delight the ear, and for these purposes it may be very useful ; but it supplies nothing to the mind. The ideas of Christian... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 476 pages
...because it is applied to the decoration of something more excellent than itself. All that pious verse can do is to help the memory and delight the ear, and for these purposes it may be very useful ; but it supplies nothing to the mind. The ideas of Christian... | |
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Poetry loses its lustre and its power, because it is applied to the decoration of something more excellent than itself. All that pious verse can do, is to help the memory and delight the ear, and for these purposes it may be very useful ; but it supplies... 
