 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 страници
...Waller," "Contemplative piety, or the intercourse between God and the human soul, cannot be poetic. Man admitted to implore the mercy of his Creator and...already in a higher state than poetry can confer" (I, 191). He rates Watts as having "done better what no man has done well" (in, 310). But Watts's piety... | |
 | Vijay Mishra - 1998 - 292 страници
...subject is sacred.... 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. 1 speak about one's special ("contemplative"l relationship with God is to attempt the impossible. In... | |
 | Vijay Mishra - 1998 - 288 страници
...is sacred. . . . 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 These are very strong words indeed. According to Dr. Johnson you can argue in verse (there... | |
 | Frank Burch Brown - 2000 - 333 страници
...start. In his words, "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." 11 It is perhaps not surprising that the most vivid evidence to the contrary is offered by a poet,... | |
 | Martin Bodden - 2007 - 36 страници
...Unterfangen sei: 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. Drei Hauptargumente führte Samuel Johnson zur Begründung seiner These über die Unmöglichkeit von... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1821 - 474 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...already in, a higher state than poetry can confer. ji The essence of poetry is invention ; such. invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises... | |
 | 1922 - 584 страници
...is not piety but the motive to piety, that is if the description is not God but the works of God.' mercy of his Creator, and plead the merits of his...already in a higher state than poetry can confer. Invention, as Johnson called the creative imagination which he thought the essence of poetry, could... | |
 | 1866 - 956 страници
...¡words are indeed suggestive of a truth which they fail exactly to express. " The essence," he saye, " of poetry is invention, such invention as, by producing...surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few." It is perfectly true, as Mr. Keble suggests, that though the object of devotion is one, the topics... | |
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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. 
