 | Tobias Smollett - 1779 - عدد الصفحات: 510
...poetry can confer. • The efience of poetry is invention ; fuch invention as, by producing fomethirg unexpected, furprifes and delights. - The topicks...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 - عدد الصفحات: 596
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 590
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 590
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 494
...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...novelty of fentiment, and very little from novelty of expreifion. Poetry pleafes by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themfelves afford.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1783 - عدد الصفحات: 478
...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 novelty of feritiment, and very Jittle from novelty of expremon. Poetry pleafes by exhibiting an idea more grateful... | |
 | Henry Hunter - 1794 - عدد الصفحات: 508
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 610
...plead the merits of his Redeemer, is already in a higher ftate than poetry can confer. The eflence of poetry is invention ; fuch invention as, by producing...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.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - عدد الصفحات: 594
...unexpected, surprises and delights. The topies .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. Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - عدد الصفحات: 716
...and delights. The topicks 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 little from novelty of expression. Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful... | |
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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... 
