 | John Wilson - 1852 - 328 páginas
...poetry is invention ; sneh invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few. and being few are universally known ; but few as they are, they can V I made no more; they can receive no grace fron 183 novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1852 - 330 páginas
...definition of poetry (the same as that of Bacon) is sufficiently broad ; if you admit that poesy always pleases " by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford." The essential part of this definition says, that in poesy a grateful ideal is presented to the mind... | |
 | James Montgomery, John Holland - 1854 - 468 páginas
...poetry is invention ; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and, being few, are...Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful in the mind than things themselves afford. This effect proceeds from the display of those parts of... | |
 | John Wilson - 1854 - 342 páginas
...poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing somelhing unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are...grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from noTelty of expression. Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful in the mind than things themselves... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 472 páginas
...poetry is invention ; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally known ; but, few as there are, they can be made no more ; they can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 páginas
...poetry is invention ; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally known ; but, few as there are, they can be made no more ; they can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - 1857 - 564 páginas
...poetry is invention ; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are...sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression." Such an unworthy definition of poetry might answer for an age of lampooners, when merry quips and fantastic... | |
 | William Morley Punshon - 1857 - 60 páginas
...poetry is invention ; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are...sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression.'' Such an unworthy definition of poetry might answer for an age of lampooners; when merry quips and fantastic... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 462 páginas
...not absolutely confound mortal beings, and humble them down even below the very dust. There may be " no grace from novelty of sentiment," and " very little from novelty of expression" — to use Dr Johnson's words — for it is neither grace nor novelty that the spirit of the poet is... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 456 páginas
...not absolutely confound mortal beings, and humble them down even below the very dust. There may be " no grace from novelty of sentiment," and " very little from novelty of expression " — to use Dr Johnson's words — for it is neither grace nor novelty that the spirit of the poet... | |
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The essence of poetry is invention ; such invention as, by producing 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... 
