 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 358 sivua
...unexpected, furprifes and delights. The topicks of devotion are few, and being few are univerfally known; but few as they are, they can be made no more; they can receive no grace from novelty of fentiment, and very little from novelty of expreffion. Poetry pleafes by exhibiting an idea more grateful... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1779 - 510 sivua
...unexpected, furprifes and delights. - The topicks of devotion are few, and being few are univerfally known ; but 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 sivua
...fomething unexpected, furprifes and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are univerfally known ; but few as they are, they can be made no more ; they can receive no grace; from novelty of fentiment, and very little from novelty of expreflion. ' Poetry pleafes by exhibiting an idea more... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1780 - 590 sivua
...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 ; they can receive no grace from novelty of fentiment, and very little from norelty of expreflion. ' Contemplative piety, cr the ^ntcrcourfe between... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 498 sivua
...unexpected, furprifes and delights. The topicks of devotion are few, and being few are univerfally known ; but, few as they are, they can be made no more ; they can receive no grace from novelty of fentiment, and very little from novelty of expreffion. Poetry pleafes by exhibiting an idea more grateful... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 494 sivua
...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, and very little from novelty of expreifion. Poetry pleafes by exhibiting an idea more grateful... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 sivua
...unexpected, furprifes and delights. The topicks of devotion are few, and being few are univerfally known ; but, few as they are, they can be made no more ; they can receive no grace from novelty of fentiment, and very little from novelty of expreffion. Poe,try pleafes by exhibiting an idea more grateful... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 498 sivua
...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 novelty of fentiment, and very little from novelty of expreffion. Poetry pleafes by exhibiting an idea more grateful... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 344 sivua
...delights. The topicks of devotion are few, 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 little from novelty of expreffion. Poetry pleafes by exhibiting an idea more grateful... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 sivua
...unexpefted, furprifes and delights. The topicks of devotion are few, and being few are univerfally known; but, few as they are, they can be made no more; they can receive no grace from novelty of fentiment, and very little from novelty of expreffion. Poetry pleafes 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... 
