| Henry Hunter - 1794 - 508 σελίδες
...God, but the works of- God. " Contemplative piety, or the intercour-fe between God and the human foul, cannot be poetical. Man admitted to implore the mercy...Creator, and plead the merits of his Redeemer, is atready in a higher' ftate than poetry can confer. " The effence of poetry is invention ; fuch invention... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1795 - 610 σελίδες
...God, but the works of God. Contemplative piety, or the intercourfe between God and the human foul, cannot be poetical. Man admitted to implore the mercy...the merits of his Redeemer, is already in a higher ftate than poetry can confer. The eflence of poetry is invention ; fuch invention as, by producing... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 σελίδες
...the motives to piety; that of the description is not God, but the works of God. Contemplative piety, or the intercourse between God and the human soul,...the merits of his Redeemer, is already in a higher stare than poetry can confer. The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 σελίδες
...God, but the works of God. Contemplative piety, or the intercourfe between God and the human foul, cannot be poetical. Man, admitted to implore the mercy...the merits of his Redeemer, is already in a higher ftate than poetry can confer. The effence of poetry is invention ; fuch invention as, by producing... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 482 σελίδες
...God, but the works of God. Contemplative piety, or the intercourfe between God and the human foul, cannot be poetical. Man, admitted to implore the mercy...the merits of his Redeemer, is already in a higher ftate than poetry can confer. The offence of poetry is invention ; fuch invention as, by producing... | |
| Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 σελίδες
...opposition to many authorities, has the merit of originality, and forcible reasoning. " Contemplative piety, or the intercourse between God and the human soul,...already in a higher state than poetry can confer. The employments of pious meditation, are faith, thanksgiving, repentance, and supplication. Faith, invariably... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 280 σελίδες
...the motives to piety ; that of the description is not God, but the works of God. Contemplative piety, or the intercourse between God and the human soul,...admitted to implore the mercy of his Creator, and plead (he merits of his Redeemer, is already in a higher state than poetry can confer. The essence of poetry... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 450 σελίδες
...producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topicks of devotion a* Contemplative piety, or the intercourse between God and the human soul,...already in a higher state than poetry can confer. Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford. This... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1825 - 576 σελίδες
...solutions which are sometimes given of that circumstance. '• Contemplative piety,' says Dr. Johnson, ' or the intercourse between God and the human soul,...already in a higher state than poetry can confer.'* The sentiment is not uncommon among 'serious, but somewhat fearful, believers; and though we believe it... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 506 σελίδες
...the motives to piety ; that of the description is not God, but the works of God. Contemplative piety, or the intercourse between God and the human soul,...redeemer, is already in a higher state than poetry cau confer. The essence of poetry is invention ; such invention as, by producing something unexpected,... | |
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