 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - Liczba stron: 358
...unexpected, furprifes and delights. The topicks of devotion are few, and being few are univerfally known; but few as they are, they can be made no more; they can...difplay of thofe parts of nature which attract, and the conceal- ment of thofe. which repel the imagination : but religion muft be Ihewn as it is ; fuppreffion... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1779 - Liczba stron: 510
...furprifes and delights. - The topicks of devotion are few, and being few are univerfally known ; but few as they are, they can be made no more: they can re. cetve no grace from novelty of fentiment, and very little from novelty of expreflion. i * Poetry... | |
 | 1780 - Liczba stron: 596
...unexpected, furprifes and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are univerfally known ; but few as they are, they can be made no more ; they can...novelty of fentiment, and very little from novelty of expreflion. ' Poetry pleafes by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themfelves... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1780 - Liczba stron: 590
...furprifes and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and bi;ing few arc unu-erfally known ; but few as they are, they can be made no more ; they can...grace from novelty of fentiment, and very little from norelty of expreflion. ' Contemplative piety, cr the ^ntcrcourfe between God and the. human foul, cannot... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1780 - Liczba stron: 590
...unexpected, furprifes and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are univerfally known ; but few as they are, they can be made no more ; they can receive no grace from novelty of fcntimenr, and very little from novelty of expreilion. ' Contemplative piety, or the jnrercourfe between... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - Liczba stron: 498
...furprifes and delights. The topicks of devotion are few, and being few are univerfally known ; but, few as they are, they can be made no more ; they can...which attract, and the concealment of thofe which repel the imagination : but religion muft be fhewn as it is ; fuppreflion and addition equally corrupt... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - Liczba stron: 494
...furprifes and delights. The topicks of devotion are few, and being few are univerfally known j but, few as they are, they can be made no more ; they can...novelty of fentiment, and very little from novelty of expreifion. Poetry pleafes by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themfelves afford.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1783 - Liczba stron: 478
...furprifes and delights. The topicks of devotion are few, and being few are uni* verfally known ; but, few as they are, they can be made no more ; they can receive no grace from novelty of feritiment, and very Jittle from novelty of expremon. Poetry pleafes by exhibiting an idea more grateful... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - Liczba stron: 494
...furprifes and delights. The topicks of devotion are few, and being few are univerfally known ; but, few as they are, they can be made no more ; they can...themfelves afford. This effect proceeds from the difplay of thofc parfs pf nature which attract, and the concealment of thofe which repel the imagination : but... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - Liczba stron: 498
...furprifes and delights. The topicks of devotion are few, and being few are unjverfally known j but, few as they are, they can be made no more ; they can...grateful to the mind than things themfelves afford. This effedt proceeds from the difplay of thofe parts of nature which attract, and the concealment of thofe... | |
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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 grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression. 
