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" Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot be exalted ; infinity cannot be amplified ; perfection cannot be improved. "
Lives of English poets - Page 275
by Samuel Johnson - 1801
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The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems. Now First ...

William Cowper - 1851 - 790 pages
...hoped by Christians from metrical devotion. Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot...improved. "The employments of pious meditation are Faith, Thanksgiving. Repentance, and Supplication. Faith, inTariably uniform, cannot be invested by fancy...
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St Paul at Athens: A Poem

John George Sheppard - 1851 - 72 pages
...devotion. Whatever is great, de" firable, or tremendous, is comprifed in the name of the Su" preme Being. Omnipotence cannot be exalted ; infinity "...cannot be amplified ; perfection cannot be improved. Of " fentiments purely religious it will be found that the moft " fimple expreflion is the moft fublime....
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The Recreations of Christopher North [pseud.].

John Wilson - 1852 - 336 pages
...human nature ?lory t0 the "Paradise Lost?" "Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot...Infinity cannot be amplified — Perfection cannot te improved." Should not this go to prohibit all speech — all discourse — all sermons concerning...
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Poetics, an Essay on Poetry

Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1852 - 310 pages
...must always be more, Johnson begs the whole question; and if this be granted, all is lost; for truly Omnipotence cannot be exalted, Infinity cannot be amplified, Perfection cannot be improved. Reply, however, that religious poesy seeks not to heighten the Divine, but to raise our minds to the...
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Poetics: An Essay on Poetry

Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1852 - 330 pages
...must always be more, Johnson begs the whole question ; and if this be granted, all is lost ; for truly Omnipotence cannot be exalted, Infinity cannot be amplified, Perfection cannot be improved. Reply, however, that religious poesy seeks not to heighten the Divine, but to raise our minds to the...
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The cruet stand, select pieces of prose and poetry, Volume 2

C. Gough - 1853 - 414 pages
...Creator, and plead the merits of his Redeemer, is already in a higher state than poetry can confer. Omnipotence cannot be exalted, infinity cannot be amplified, perfection cannot be improved. THE LITTLE PET PLANT. A florist a sweet little blossom espied, Which li) i ii it n'd by its ancestors,...
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Genius and Faith: Or, Poetry and Religion, in Their Mutual Relations

William Cooper Scott - 1853 - 338 pages
...themes of devout meditation and motives to adoring praise. Again, it is stated to the same effect, " Omnipotence cannot be exalted. Infinity cannot be amplified. Perfection cannot be improved." Very true. But may not our ideas of Omnipotence be exalted ? May not our conceptions of infinity be...
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Johnson's Lives of the British poets completed by W. Hazlitt, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 360 pages
...hoped by Christians from metrical devotion. Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot...improved. The employments of pious meditation are faith, thanksgiving, repentance, and supplication. Faith, invariably uniform, cannot be invested by fancy...
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Lives of the most eminent English poets, with critical ..., Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 pages
...hoped by Christians from metrical devotion. Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot...improved. The employments of pious meditation are faith, thanksgiving, repentance, and supplication. Faith, invariably uniform, cannot be invested by fancy...
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Sacred Poems and Hymns: For Public and Private Devotion

James Montgomery, John Holland - 1854 - 536 pages
...for by Christians from metrical devotion. Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot...improved. The employments of pious meditation are faith, thanksgiving, repentance, and supplication. Faith, invariably uniform, cannot be invested by fancy...
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