 | William Cowper - 1835 - 448 pages
...God, but the works of God. " Contemplative piety, or the intercourse between God and the human soul, cannot be poetical; Man, admitted to implore the mercy...the merits of his Redeemer, is already in a higher state than poetry can confer. " The essence of poetry is invention ; such invention as, by producing... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 448 pages
...God, but the works of God. " Contemplative piety, or the intercourse between God and the human soul, cannot be poetical. Man, admitted to implore the mercy...the merits of his Redeemer, is already in a higher state than poetry can confer. " The essence of poetry is invention ; such invention as, by producing... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...God, but the works of God. Contemplative piety, or the intercourse be twccn God and the human soul, hnson state than poetry can confer. The essence of poetry is invention ; such invention as, by producing... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1838 - 716 pages
...intercourse be twccn God and the human soul, cannot be poetical. Man, admitted to implore the mercy of liis Creator, and plead the merits of his Redeemer, is already in a higher state than poetry can confer. The essence of poetry is invention ; such invention as, by producing... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 pages
...not God, but the works of God. Contemplative piety.orthe intercourse between God and the human soul, cannot be poetical. Man, admitted to implore the mercy...the merits of his Redeemer, is already in a higher state than poetry can confer. The essence of poetry is invention ; such invention as, by producing... | |
 | 1841 - 502 pages
...is contained in the words, " Contemplative piety, or the intercourse between God and the human soul, cannot be poetical ; man, admitted to implore the...the merits of his Redeemer, is already in a higher state than poetry can confer." This sentence is not a very favourable spechnen of Johnson's accuracy,... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 428 pages
...God, but the works of God. Contemplative piety, or the intercourse between God and the human soul, cannot be poetical. Man admitted to implore the mercy...the merits of his Redeemer, is already in a higher state than poetry can confer. " The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 422 pages
...God, but the works of God. Contemplative piety, or the intercourse between God and the human soul, cannot be poetical. Man admitted to implore the mercy...the merits of his Redeemer, is already in a higher state than poetry can confer. " The essence of poetry is invention ; such invention as, by producing... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1844 - 44 pages
...why it is so. " Contemplative poetry," he says, "or the intercourse between God and the human soul, cannot be poetical. Man, admitted to implore the mercy of his Creator, is already in a higher state, than poetry can confer. The essence of poetry is invention ; such invention... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1846 - 246 pages
...why it is so. " Contemplative poetry," he says, " or the intercourse between God and the human soul, cannot be poetical. Man, admitted to implore the mercy of his Creator, is already in a higher state than poetry can confer. The essence of poetry is invention ; such invention... | |
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Contemplative piety, or the intercourse between God and the human soul, cannot be poetical. Man admitted to implore the mercy of" his Creator, and plead the merits of his Redeemer, is already in a higher state than poetry can confer. 
