 | John Wilson - 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 328
...poetry is invention ; sneh 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 V I made no more; they can receive no grace fron 183 novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 330
...definition of poetry (the same as that of Bacon) is sufficiently broad ; if you admit that poesy always pleases " by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford." The essential part of this definition says, that in poesy a grateful ideal is presented to the mind... | |
 | James Montgomery, John Holland - 1854 - عدد الصفحات: 468
...poetry is invention ; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and, being few, are...Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful in the mind than things themselves afford. This effect proceeds from the display of those parts of... | |
 | John Wilson - 1854 - عدد الصفحات: 342
...poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing somelhing unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are...grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from noTelty of expression. Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful in the mind than things themselves... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - عدد الصفحات: 472
...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 there are, they can be made no more ; they can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - عدد الصفحات: 468
...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 there are, they can be made no more ; they can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 564
...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." Such an unworthy definition of poetry might answer for an age of lampooners, when merry quips and fantastic... | |
 | William Morley Punshon - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 60
...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.'' Such an unworthy definition of poetry might answer for an age of lampooners; when merry quips and fantastic... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 462
...not absolutely confound mortal beings, and humble them down even below the very dust. There may be " no grace from novelty of sentiment," and " very little from novelty of expression" — to use Dr Johnson's words — for it is neither grace nor novelty that the spirit of the poet is... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 456
...not absolutely confound mortal beings, and humble them down even below the very dust. There may be " no grace from novelty of sentiment," and " very little from novelty of expression " — to use Dr Johnson's words — for it is neither grace nor novelty that the spirit of the poet... | |
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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... 
