 | John Keble - 1877 - 584 страници
...Contemplative piety," says Dr. Johnson, " or the intercourse between God and the human soul, cannot be poetical. Man, admitted to implore the mercy of his...Redeemer, is already in a higher state than poetry can confer'1." The sentiment is not uncommon among serious, but somewhat fearful, believers ; and though... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 530 страници
...wnrlrs nf HnH . Contemplative piety, or the intercourse between God and the 136 human soul, cannot be poetical. Man admitted to implore the mercy of his...already in a higher state than poetry can confer. , The jgsence of poetry is invention ; such invention as, by 137 producing something unexpected, surprises... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 страници
...useless, but, in some degree, profane.' 2 As for religious lyrics, ' Contemplative piety . . . cannot be poetical. Man, admitted to implore the mercy of his...already in a higher state than poetry can confer.' * Of his own personal predilections in poetry no one 1 His fullest statement of this principle is found... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1910 - 210 страници
...the works of God. Contemplative piety, or the intercourse between God and the human soul, cannot be poetical. Man admitted to implore the mercy of his...something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topicks of devotion are few, and being few are universally known ; but, few as they are, they can be... | |
 | 1843 - 1098 страници
...both the reason which he assigns, and the argument by which he supports it. The reason is this : " Man, admitted to implore the mercy of his Creator,...already in a higher state than poetry can confer." This is true. And if it followed from admission to a higher state, that what belongs to a lower must... | |
 | Edmund David Jones - 1924 - 636 страници
...Contemplative piety,' says Dr. Johnson, ' or the intercourse between God and the human soul, cannot be poetical. Man, admitted to implore the mercy of his...already in a higher state than poetry can confer.' l The sentiment is not uncommon among serious, but somewhat fearful, believers ; and though we believe... | |
 | René Wellek - 1981 - 378 страници
...works of God." But "contemplative piety, or the intercourse between God and the human soul, cannot be poetical. Man admitted to implore the mercy of his...already in a higher state than poetry can confer." This can be interpreted as meaning that prayer is a higher state than poetic contemplation, and one... | |
 | Joan Bennett - 168 страници
...Sonnet XVII. I36 Contemplative piety, or the intercourse between God and the human soul, cannot be poetical. Man admitted to implore the mercy of his...Redeemer, is already in a higher state than poetry can confer.1 Devotional poetry is exposed to attack both from believers like Dr Johnson and from the sceptical.... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 696 страници
...forcible reasoning. " Contemplative piety, or the intercourse between God and the human soul, cannot be poetical. Man admitted to implore the mercy of his...already in a higher state than poetry can confer. The employments of pious meditation, are faith, thanksgiving, repentance, and supplication. Faith, invariably... | |
 | 1979 - 188 страници
...often please. . . . Contemplative piety, or the intercourse between God and the human soul, cannot be poetical. Man admitted to implore the mercy of his...already in a higher state than poetry can confer. (Lives, 1:291) On the other hand, the state of experience that poetry, or literature generally, can... | |
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Contemplative piety, or the intercourse between God and the human soul, cannot be 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. 
