 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 no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression.  Lives of English poets - Page 275by Samuel Johnson - 1801Full view - About this book
 | William Morley Punshon - 1882 - 500 pages
...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 no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression." Such an unworthy definition of poetry might... | |
 | 1890 - 660 pages
...to the Inquisition. Johnson says : " The topicks of devotion are few, and being few, are universally known ; but, few as they are, they can be made no more ; they can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression." The stage is a magician, with strange and singular... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 660 pages
...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 no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression. Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 670 pages
...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 no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression. Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful... | |
 | Henry Schütz Wilson - 1896 - 308 pages
...to the Inquisition. Johnson says : ' The topicks of devotion are few, and being few, are universally known; but, few as they are, they can be made no more ; they can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression.' The stage is a magician, with strange and singular... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1910 - 210 pages
...The essence of poetry is invention ; such invention as, by producing 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 made no more ; they can receive no grace from... | |
 | 1843 - 1098 pages
...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 no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression. Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful... | |
 | Richard Pape Cowl - 1914 - 346 pages
...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 no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression. Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 438 pages
...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 no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression. " Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more... | |
 | Percy Hazen Houston - 1923 - 346 pages
...the essence of poetry is invention, "such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topicks of devotion are few, and being few are universally known; . . . they can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment .... or of expression.... | |
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