 | Horace - 1819 - 318 pages
...life of Waller, has*admirably said, that " whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot...cannot be amplified ; perfection cannot be improved. " Upon the whole, however, his prize poems are more accurate than the generality of his performances... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 476 pages
...hoped by Christians from metrical devotion. Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot...improved. The employments of pious meditation are Faith, Thanksgiving, Repentance, and Supplication. Faith, invariably uniform, cannot be invested by fancy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 466 pages
...hoped by Christians from metrical devotion. Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot...improved. The employments of pious meditation are faith, thanksgiving repentance, and supplication. Faith, invariably uniform, cannot be invested by fancy with... | |
 | 1825 - 364 pages
...we believe, in his Life of Waller. — " Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot...cannot be amplified; Perfection cannot be improved." We do not question this position ; but it is, surely, within the competence of poetry to preserve,... | |
 | 1821 - 542 pages
...is used without a definitive appropriation to that to which it is annexed ; as in this instance, " Omnipotence cannot be exalted, infinity cannot be " amplified, perfection cannot be improved ;" where the exact relation between amplitude and infinity, and between improvement, and perfection,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 280 pages
...hoped by Christians from metrical devotion. Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot...improved. The employments of pious meditation are Faith, Thanksgiving, Repentance, and Supplication. Faith invariably uniform, caunot be invested by fancy with... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 428 pages
...Johnson, with majestic energy, remarks that " whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot...be amplified; Perfection cannot be improved." The Hymn to the Supreme Being, is, in truth, a composition of great pathos and sublimity. SELECT POEMS.... | |
 | 1823 - 450 pages
...metrical devotion. Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised lu the name of the Sapreme being. Omnipotence cannot be exalted ; Infinity cannot be amplified ; Perfection cannot be improved. All that pious verse can do Is to help the memory and delight the ear ; and for these purposes it may... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 652 pages
...hoped by Christians from metrical devotion. Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendons, is comprised in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot...improved. The employments of pious meditation are Faith, Thanksgiving, Repentance, and Supplication. Faith, invariably uniform, cannot be invested by fancy... | |
 | Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 pages
...for, by Christians, from metrical devotion. Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot...cannot be amplified ; Perfection cannot be improved. All that pious verse can do is to help the memory and delight the ear; and for these purposes it may... | |
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Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot be exalted ; infinity cannot be amplified ; perfection cannot be improved. 
