 | 1830 - 508 דפים
...captivating and imposing in the leading sentiment on which Dr. Johnson founds his argument, viz : — that ' man admitted to implore the mercy of his Creator,...already in a higher state than poetry can confer.' This, undoubtedly, is sometimes true. There are seasons when the rapt soul, feeling the utter barrenness... | |
 | American education society - 1833 - 406 דפים
...expected. " Contemplative piety," he says, " or the intercourse between God and the human soul, cannot be poetical. Man admitted to implore the mercy of his...already in a higher state than poetry can confer. — Faith, invariably uniform, cannot be invested by fancy with decorations. Thanksgiving, the most... | |
 | 1833 - 378 דפים
...expected. " Contemplative piety," he says, " or the intercourse between God and the human soul, cannot be poetical. Man admitted to implore the mercy of his...already in a higher state than poetry can confer. — Faith, invariably uniform, cannot be invested by fancy with decorations. Thanksgiving, the most... | |
 | Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - 1834 - 686 דפים
...more fully, thus: "Contemplative piety, or the intercourse between God and the human soul, cannot be poetical. Man,' admitted to implore the mercy of his...already in a higher state than poetry can confer." This, we suppose, simply implies, that devotional feeling is superior to poetical, — a position not... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 דפים
...the works of God. Contemplative piety, or the intercourse be twccn God and the human soul, cannot be u!d- Փ *% ` ] .Á 4 7M 9 a ...O ~ z ^ + bq i 4 . R ZWϓ0h | i L} . ' _ ĆQ BtA1 arc, they can be made no more ; they can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little... | |
 | 1841 - 502 דפים
...contained in the words, " Contemplative piety, or the intercourse between God and the human soul, cannot be poetical ; man, admitted to implore the mercy of his...already in a higher state than poetry can confer." This sentence is not a very favourable spechnen of Johnson's accuracy, either of speech or thought.... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 422 דפים
...Johnson's argument is, " that contemplative piety, or the intercourse between God and man, cannot be poetical. Man admitted to implore the mercy of his...already in a higher state than poetry can confer." There is something very fine and true in the sentiment here ; but the sentiment is only true in some... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 428 דפים
...Johnson's argument is, " that contemplative piety, or the intercourse between God and man, cannot be poetical. Man admitted to implore the mercy of his...already in a higher state than poetry can confer." There is something very fine and true in the sentiment here ; but the sentiment is only true in some... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 718 דפים
...the works of God. Contemplative piety, or the intercourse be tween God and the human soul, cannot be poetical. Man, admitted to implore the mercy of his...invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises ana delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally known ; but few as they... | |
 | 1848 - 766 דפים
...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...is already in a higher state than poetry can confer From poetry the reader justly expects, and from good poetry always obtains, the enlargement of his... | |
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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. 
