 The essence of poetry is invention ; such invention as, by producing 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...  The Quarterly Review - Page 42edited by - 1828Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 pages
...unexpected, surprises and delights. The topicks of devotion are few, and being few are universally known ; but few as they are, they can be made no more ; they can receire no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression. Poetry pleases... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 476 pages
...unexpected, surprises and delights. The topicks of devotion are few, and being few are universally known ; but, few as they are, they can be made no more ; they...sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression. Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford. This... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 470 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...sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression. Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford. This... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 466 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...sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression. Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford. This... | |
 | John Watkins - Poets, English - 1822 - 452 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...sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression." This, in the main, is perfectly just, yet it follows not that because the truths of religion interdict... | |
 | John Watkins - 1822 - 452 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...sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression." This, in the main, is perfectly just, yet it follows not that because the truths of religion interdict... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 280 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 uovelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression. Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - Authors, English - 1823 - 652 pages
...unexpected, surprises and delights. The topicks of devotion arc few, and being few are universally known ; but, few as they are, they can be made no more ; they...sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression. Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford. This... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 450 pages
...equally corrupt it; and such as it is, it is known already. few, and bemg few, are universally known; but, few as they are, they can be made no more; they can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment, md very little from novelty of expression. From poetry the reader j ustly expects, and from good poetry... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 pages
...unexpected, surprizes and delights. The topicks of devotion are few, and being few are universally known; but, few as they are, they can be made no more; they...sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression. Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford. This... | |
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