 | 1882 - 1434 halaman
...about the material. g. LEIGH Htrar — Men, Women, and Books. Of Statesmen Who Have Written Verses. The essence of poetry is invention; such invention...producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. A. SAM'I, JOHNSON— Life of Watter. A d rainless shower Of light is poesy; 'tis the supreme of power;... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - 1882 - 914 halaman
...the material. <j. LEIGH HUNT — Men, Wmnfii, and Books. Of Htateinneit Who ¡larr Written Perses. y comes, we scarce know how, as an emanation from sources deeper than itself. q. SHAIBP surprise» and delights. h. SAM' L JOHSSON— Life of Waller. A il rainless shower Oflight is poesy;... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 halaman
...Heaven alone, The genuine seeds of poesy are sown. b. HOMER— Odyssey. Bk. XXII. L. 382. Pope's trans. oing e. SAM'L JOHNSON — The Lire* of the English Poets. Life of Walter. Still may syllables jar with time,... | |
 | Jeremiah Wesley Bray - 1898 - 364 halaman
...with that ease and activity that we are not sensible when the faculty is employed. ID., p. 2. _The essence of poetry is invention ; such invention as...producing something unexpected surprises and delights. 1781. S. JOHNSON, VII., p. 213. During the present century "invention" has been regarded als^a__Erojiess... | |
 | Arthur Edwin Gregory - 1905 - 374 halaman
...find expression in a hymn.' 1 Dr. Johnson declared that sacred poetry must always be poor because ' the topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally known ; but few as they are can be made no more.' To this criticism Keble replied in his essay on Sacred Poetry — How can the... | |
 | Robert Kleuker - 1907 - 188 halaman
...animates, the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden <Lives. IV 109) ; ferner : The essence of poetry is invention ; such invention as. by producing something unexpected, suprises and delights (Lives, lI 267; Ogl. ferner: Lives, IV 135, 187). ©§ fet 6ier barcutf ^mQeroiefen,... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1910 - 196 halaman
...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....something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topicks of devotion are few, and being few are universally known ; but, few as they are, they can be... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 halaman
...rehearse, And drawl out measured prose, which they call verse. — CHURCHILL, CHARLES, 1764, Independence. e excellency of true religion. No cynical remarks...of youth embittered his discourses. No applausive — JOHNSON, SAMUEL, 1779, WaUer, Lives of the Poets. There is a pleasure in poetic pains, Which only... | |
 | Rudolf Kahn - 1910 - 144 halaman
...sittliche Besserung des Menschen. Hin und wieder findet sich bei ihm auch eine modernere Auffassungsweise. „The essence of poetry is invention ; such invention...producing something unexpected, surprises and delights," sagt er in einer Lebensbeschreibung Wallers. Dieselbe Aeusserung wiederholt er in seinem „Leben Miltons":... | |
 | Hudson Maxim - 1910 - 488 halaman
...Johnson said of poetry is perfectly true, but it may be equally true of other things besides poetry: "The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprizes and delights." Herbert Spencer did not give us a formal definition of poetry, but in 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. The essence of poetry... 
