 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 - Seite 42herausgegeben von - 1828Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 Seiten
...unexpected, furpriles and delights. The topicks. of devotion are few, and being few are univerfally known ; but, few as they are, they can be made no more; they can receive no grace from novelty of fentiment, and very little from novelty of expreffion. Poetry pleafes by exhibiting an idea more grateful... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 Seiten
...unexpected, surprises and delights. The topies .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 the things themselves afford. This... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 Seiten
...and delights. The topicks 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. Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford. This... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 482 Seiten
...furprifes and delights. The topicks of devotion are few, and being few are univerfally known ; bur, few as they are, they can be made no more ; they can receive no grace from novelty of fentiment, and very little from novelty of expreffion. Poetry pleafes by exhibiting an idea more grateful... | |
 | 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 - 636 Seiten
...authority. But we repeat, that too much must not be expected : however inaccurate many of the positions may appear in a celebrated passage of Johnson's Life of...of these limitations ; and even if we were to deny i*ie latter, the poet is confined to a very inferior branch of his art, who can only invest common... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 Seiten
...unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally known ; res. Plots true or false are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths, and ruin kings. Th' Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford. This... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 Seiten
...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... | |
 | William Smith - 1814 - 330 Seiten
...unexpected, surprises and til-lights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few, are universally known ; but few as they are, they can be made no more ;—,...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 - 1816 - 486 Seiten
...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... | |
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