 | Tobias Smollett - 1779 - 510 páginas
...confer. • The efience of poetry is invention ; fuch invention as, by producing fomethirg unexpected, furprifes and delights. - The topicks of devotion...few as they are, they can be made no more: they can re. cetve no grace from novelty of fentiment, and very little from novelty of expreflion. i * Poetry... | |
 | 1780 - 596 páginas
...invention ; fuch invention as, by producing fomething unexpected, furprifes and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are univerfally...novelty of fentiment, and very little from novelty of expreflion. ' Poetry pleafes by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themfelves... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1780 - 590 páginas
...invention ;. fuch invention ss, by producing fomcthing unexpected, furprifes and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are univerfally...no more ; they can receive no grace from novelty of fcntimenr, and very little from novelty of expreilion. ' Contemplative piety, or the jnrercourfe between... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1780 - 590 páginas
...unexpected, furprifes and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and bi;ing few arc unu-erfally known ; but few as they are, they can be made no more...grace from novelty of fentiment, and very little from norelty of expreflion. ' Contemplative piety, cr the ^ntcrcourfe between God and the. human foul, cannot... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 494 páginas
...can confer. The effence of poetry is invention ; fuch invention as, by producing fomething unexpe&ed, furprifes and delights. The topicks of devotion are few, and being few are univerfally known j but, few as they are, they can be made no more ; they can receive no grace from novelty of fentiment,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 478 páginas
...confer.. The effence of poetry is invention ; fuch invention as, by producing fomething unexpected, furprifes and delights. The topicks of devotion are few, and being few are uni* verfally known ; but, few as they are, they can be made no more ; they can receive no grace from... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 498 páginas
...confer, The effence of poetry is invention ; fuch invention as, by producing fomething unexpected, furprifes and delights. The topicks of devotion are few, and being few are unjverfally known j but, few as they are, they can be made no more ; they can receive no grace from... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 344 páginas
...confer. The erTence of poetry is invention; fuch invention as, by producing fomething unexpecl- . ed, furprifes and delights. The topicks of devotion are...and being few are univerfally known ; but, few as there are, they can be made no more ; they can receive no grace from novelty of fentiment, and very... | |
 | Henry Hunter - 1794 - 508 páginas
...invention as, by producing. fomething unexpected, furprifes and delights. The topics of devotion are tew, and being few are univerfally known ; but few as they...novelty of fentiment, and very little from novelty of expreflion. " Poetry pleafcs by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themfelves.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1795 - 610 páginas
...confer. The eflence of poetry is invention ; fuch invention as, by producing fomething unexpected, furprifes and delights. The topicks of devotion are...novelty of fentiment, and very little from novelty of expreflion. Poetry pleafes by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themfelves afford.... | |
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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 novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression. 
