 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 358 pàgines
...the works of God. Contemplative piety, or the intercourfe between God and the human foul, cannot be poetical. Man admitted to implore the mercy of his...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... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1779 - 510 pàgines
...the works of God. ' Contemplative piety, or the intercourfe between God and the human foul, cannot be poetical. Man admitted to implore the mercy of his...the merits of his Redeemer, is already in a higher ftate than poetry can confer. • The efience of poetry is invention ; fuch invention as, by producing... | |
 | 1780 - 596 pàgines
...works of God. ' Contemplative piety, or the intercouife between God and the; human foul, cannot be poetical. Man admitted to implore the mercy of his...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 - 1781 - 494 pàgines
...the works of God. Contemplative piety, or the intercourfe between God and the human foul, cannot be poetical. Man admitted to implore the mercy of his...the merits of his Redeemer, is already in a higher flate than poetry can confer. The effence of poetry is invention ; fuch invention as, by producing... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pàgines
...Contemplative piety, or the intercourfe between God and the human foul, cannot be poetical. Alan admit', ted to implore the mercy of his Creator, and plead the merits of his Redeemer, is already in a higher ftate than poetry can confer. The effcnce of poetry is invention ; fuch invention as, by producing... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pàgines
...the works of God. Contemplative piety, or the intercourfe between God and the human foul, cannot be poetical. Man admitted to implore the mercy of his...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 - 1795 - 610 pàgines
...the works of God. Contemplative piety, or the intercourfe between God and the human foul, cannot be poetical. Man admitted to implore the mercy of his...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 pàgines
...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...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 pàgines
...the works of God. Contemplative piety, or the intercourfe between God and the human foul, cannot be poetical. Man, admitted to implore the mercy of his...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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pàgines
...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 there are, they can be... | |
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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. 
