...invention ; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally...exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford. This effect proceeds from the display of those part of nature which attract,...

...rises in renewed radiance from the hallowing waters of Jordan. "But," resumes Johnson, "the topics of devotion are few, and being few, are universally...sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression." But the fountains of human feeling are not so soon exhausted ; and every one who is familiar with the...

...renewed radiance from the hallowing waters of Jordan. • ; , " But," says Johnson, " the . topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally,...sentiment, :and very little from novelty of expression." But the fountains of human feeling are not so soon exhausted ; and every one who is familiar with the...

....-.!'•. "But," says Johnson, "the topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally known; bat few as they are, they can be made no more, they can...sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression." But the fountains of human feeling are not so soon exhausted ; and every one who is familiar with the...

...; they can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expres sion. Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford. This effect proceeds from the display of those parts of nature which attract,...

...invention ; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and, being few, are universally...novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expres>ion. Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves atford....

...invention ; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few, are universally...sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression. NO. IX. N. S, X " Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves...

...invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The tonics of devotion arc few, and being few are universally known ; but few...exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford. This effect proceeds from the display of those part of nature which attract,...

...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...

...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...