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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... "
The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations ... - Страница 138
по Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 394 страници
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Lectures

William Morley Punshon - 1882 - 500 страници
...invention ; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally...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...

The Gentleman's Magazine, Том 269

1890 - 660 страници
...yet certainly have yielded the fullest contentment to the Inquisition. Johnson says : " The topicks of devotion are few, and being few, are universally...sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression." The stage is a magician, with strange and singular gifts and powers, who exacts rigidly his dues both...

English Prose: Selections, Том 4

Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 704 страници
...little from novelty of expression. Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford. This effect proceeds from...the display of those parts of nature which attract, and the concealment of those which repel the imagination ; but religion must be showed as it is ; suppression...

English Prose: Selections : with Critical Introductions by Various ..., Том 4

Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 670 страници
...invention, such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally...exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford. This effect proceeds from the display of those parts of nature which attract,...

English Prose: Selections : with Critical Introductions by Various ..., Том 4

Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 660 страници
...invention, such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally...exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford. This effect proceeds from the display of those parts of nature which attract,...

History and Criticism: Being Studies on Conciergerie, Bianca Cappello ...

Henry Schütz Wilson - 1896 - 308 страници
...yet certainly have yielded the fullest contentment to the Inquisition. Johnson says : ' The topicks of devotion are few, and being few, are universally...sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression.' The stage is a magician, with strange and singular gifts and powers, who exacts rigidly his dues both...

Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom

Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1899 - 570 страници
...Johnson, following Pope, declares that "the essence of poetry is invention," and goes on to say that " poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford." Wordsworth maintained that " poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful...

The Hymn-book of the Modern Church: Studies of Hymns and Hymn-writers

Arthur Edwin Gregory - 1905 - 374 страници
...expression in a hymn.' 1 Dr. Johnson declared that sacred poetry must always be poor because ' the topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally known ; but few as they are can be made no more.' To this criticism Keble replied in his essay on Sacred Poetry — How can the...

Six Essays on Johnson

Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1910 - 196 страници
...invention ; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topicks of devotion are few, and being few are universally...exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford. This effect proceeds from the display of those parts of nature which attract,...

English Prose: Eighteenth century

Sir Henry Craik - 1911 - 664 страници
...invention, such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally...exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford. This effect proceeds from the display of those parts of nature which attract,...




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