...of the disputation is not piety, bnt the motives to piety ; that of the doaeripContemplative piety, or the intercourse between God and the human soul,...poetry can confer. The essence of poetry is invention; sueit invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion...

...captivating and imposing in the leading sentiment on which Dr. Johnson founds his argument, viz : — that ' man admitted to implore the mercy of his Creator,...already in a higher state than poetry can confer.' This, undoubtedly, is sometimes true. There are seasons when the rapt soul, feeling the utter barrenness...

...thus falls below what it seems at first view might be expected. " Contemplative piety," he says, " or the intercourse between God and the human soul,...already in a higher state than poetry can confer. — Faith, invariably uniform, cannot be invested by fancy with decorations. Thanksgiving, the most...

...thus falls below what it seems at first view might be expected. " Contemplative piety," he says, " or the intercourse between God and the human soul,...already in a higher state than poetry can confer. — Faith, invariably uniform, cannot be invested by fancy with decorations. Thanksgiving, the most...

...dogmatical way, dedicates some space to an enquiry why it is so. '' Contemplative poetry,' he says, ' or the intercourse between God and the human soul,...Man, admitted to implore the mercy of his Creator, is already in a higher state than poetry can confer. The essence of poetry is invention ; such invention...

...God and piety, abstractly considered, are. This he explains more fully, thus: " Contemplative piety, or the intercourse between God and the human soul,...already in a higher state than poetry can confer." This, we suppose, simply implies, that devotional feeling is superior to poetical, — a position not...

...the description is not God, but the works of God. Contemplative piety, or the intercourse be twccn God and the human soul, cannot be poetical. Man, admitted to implore the mercy of liis Creator, and plead the merits of his Redeemer, is already in a higher state than poetry can confer....

...the motives to piety; that of the description is not God, but the works of God. Contemplative piety, or the intercourse between God and the human soul, cannot be poetical." The time has long gone by when the doctrines of religion could be advantageously promulgated in Terse;...

...the choice of subject ; the mode of treating it being wholly different. That " contemplative piety, or the intercourse between God and the human soul, cannot be poetical," is true, if it be true that the human soul having such intercourse is parted from its humanity, or...

...God and piety, abstractly considered, are. This he explains more fully, thus: "Contemplative piety, or the intercourse between God and the human soul,...poetical. Man, admitted to implore the mercy of his Creator,-and plead the merits of his Redeemer, is already in a higher state than poetry can confer."...