 | James Montgomery - 1833 - عدد الصفحات: 368
...poetry is invention ; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few ; and being few, are...exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than the things themselves afford. This effect proceeds from the display of those parts in nature which... | |
 | 1833 - عدد الصفحات: 588
...poetry is invention ; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few, are...sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression.' In this sweeping style he proceeds with criticism that, notwithstanding our deference for his great... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - عدد الصفحات: 722
...poetry is invention ; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are...afford. This effect proceeds from the display of those part of nature which attract, and the concealment of those which repel, the imagination : but religion... | |
 | Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - 1834 - عدد الصفحات: 730
...Johnson, " is invention, such invention, as by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few, are...novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expres sion. Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves... | |
 | 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 638
...with our limits; but the most glaring errors may be briefly examined. The topics of devotion, he says, are few, and being few, are universally known ; but...sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression. This objection, which in a greater or less degree bears upon the entire circle of literature, presses... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 752
...poetry is invention ; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. 6 U)UM X 52 m o5i G . Y s ? ! V ԙm 86M;p P {51f [' "H ;\+ ': ) f T @ o h arc, they can be made no more ; they can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 716
...poetry is invention ; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are...afford. This effect proceeds from the display of those part of nature which attract, and the concealment of those which repel, the imagination : but religion... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 332
...poetry is invention ; such invention as, by producing somethingunexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few ; and being few, are...exhibiting \ an idea more grateful to the mind than the things themselves afford. This effect proceeds from the display of those parts in nature which... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 400
...nature. Genius rises in renewed radiance from the hallowing waters of Jordan. "But," resumes Johnson, "the topics of devotion are few, and being few, are...sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression." But the fountains of human feeling are not so soon exhausted ; and every one who is familiar with the... | |
 | 1839 - عدد الصفحات: 272
...-Genius rises in renewed radiance from the hallowing waters of Jordan. • ; , " But," says Johnson, " the . topics of devotion are few, and being few are...sentiment, :and very little from novelty of expression." But the fountains of human feeling are not so soon exhausted ; and every one who is familiar with the... | |
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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... 
