 | 1829 - Страниц: 828
...surprises and delights," poetry in this sense is an unfit vehicle for the topics of devotion, which " being few are universally known ; but few as they...sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression." But if there be, as unquestionably there is, a species of poetry which, though it proceeds not from... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - Страниц: 280
...poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are...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... | |
 | John Watkins - 1822 - Страниц: 452
...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 - Страниц: 452
...critic, " 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 there are, they can be made no more ; they can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very... | |
 | John Watkins - 1822 - Страниц: 476
...critic, " 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 there are, they can be made no more ; they can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - Страниц: 450
...suppression and addition 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 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 - 1826 - Страниц: 430
...poetry is invention; sueit invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are...little from novelty of expression. Poetry pleases by exhihiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford. This effect proceeds from... | |
 | 1826 - Страниц: 794
...author. Nor will it easily be admitted that devotional topics, be they few, or be they numerous, " can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression." All this is crude and prejudiced * theory, in opposition to facts, and to the judgment and feelings... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - Страниц: 646
...adoration of God. ' The topics of devotion (in which a whole congregation can reasonably join) are few ; but few as they are, they can be made no more; they...sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression.' We are inclined to admit the former of these limitations ; and even if we were to deny the latter,... | |
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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 no... 
