 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 670 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 something... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 pages
...only useless, but, in some degree, profane.' 2 As for religious lyrics, ' Contemplative piety . . . cannot be poetical. Man, admitted to implore the mercy...the merits of his Redeemer, is already in a higher state than poetry can confer.' * Of his own personal predilections in poetry no one 1 His fullest statement... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1910 - 196 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... | |
 | 1843 - 1098 pages
...both the reason which he assigns, and the argument by which he supports it. The reason is this : " Man, admitted to implore the mercy of his Creator,...the merits of his Redeemer, is already in a higher state than poetry can confer." This is true. And if it followed from admission to a higher state, that... | |
 | Richard Pape Cowl - 1914 - 346 pages
...intercourse between God caVnnotebe an^ tne human soul, cannot be poetical. Man, admitted poetical. to implore the mercy of his 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 something... | |
 | Stuart Petre Brodie Mais - 1916 - 216 pages
...heart of Shakespeare and all great dramatists) that at the very time when Johnson was saying that — " Man, admitted to implore the mercy of his Creator, and plead the merits oi his Redeemer, is already in a higher state than poetry can confer," Cowper was writing hymns to... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 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... | |
 | Jeremiah Bascom Reeves - 1924 - 442 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 true path lies somewhere between these extremes. We know that Addison... | |
 | Edmund David Jones - 1924 - 636 pages
...circumstance. ' Contemplative piety,' says Dr. Johnson, ' 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.' l The sentiment is not uncommon among serious, but somewhat fearful,... | |
 | René Wellek - 1981 - 376 pages
...but the works of God." But "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." This can be interpreted as meaning that prayer is a higher state than... | |
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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. 
