 | John Wilson - 1842 - 428 pages
...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 no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression. Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1844 - 44 pages
...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 no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression." In this sweeping style Johnson proceeds with... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1846 - 246 pages
...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 no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression." In this sweeping style, Johnson proceeds with... | |
 | James Montgomery, John Holland - 1854 - 468 pages
...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 no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression. Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 360 pages
...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 no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression. Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 pages
...and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally known ; but, few as there are, they can be made no more ; they can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression. 62 His poem of 'Divine Love ' was undertaken,... | |
 | William Morley Punshon - 1857 - 60 pages
...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 no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression.'' Such an unworthy definition of poetry might... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 462 pages
...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 no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression. Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - 1857 - 564 pages
...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 no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression." Such an unworthy definition of poetry might... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 456 pages
...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 no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression. Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful... | |
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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 no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression. 
