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
| Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1910 - 210 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... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - 1911 - 664 Seiten
...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... | |
| 1843 - 1098 Seiten
...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... | |
| Richard Pape Cowl - 1914 - 346 Seiten
...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 Ker Spittal - 1923 - 438 Seiten
...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... | |
| René Wellek - 1981 - 378 Seiten
...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." ("Grace" here means adornment, ornament; "sentiment" the content, the subject matter; "expression"... | |
| 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 - 638 Seiten
...whether its unexceptionable character would not at first impede its general and immediate adoption—but it would work its way, if slowly, yet surely. Good...appropriate or graceful language. Yet, will the writer of hymns, which are to convey the feelings of praise or supplication common to a multitude of believers,... | |
| Cesareo Bandera - 2010 - 333 Seiten
...unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally known .. . they can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression" (296). The same argument had been used by Tasso in his Discourses on the Heroic Poem: The argument... | |
| Blanford Parker - 1998 - 282 Seiten
...relation of the human soul to God. The words of scripture, the work of God, comes to us unadorned and "it can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression" (Life of Watts). Religious effusion is to "be felt rather than expressed," and the "ideas of Christian... | |
| Elsie Elizabeth Phare - 1967 - 170 Seiten
...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." I should imagine that, as a rule, those who know what contemplative piety is would feel that they were... | |
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