 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 358 pages
...power, bccaufe it is applied to the decoration of fomething more excellent than itfelf. All that vcrfe can do is to help the memory, and delight the ear, and for thcfc purpofes k maybe veryufeful ; but it fupplies nothing to the mind. The ideas of Chrif; • tiar... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1779 - 510 pages
...power, becaufe it is applied to the decoration of fomething more excellent than itfelf. All that verfe can do is to help the memory, and delight the ear, and for thefe purpofes it may be veryufeful; but it fupplies nothing to the mind. The ideas of Chriftian. theology... | |
 | 1780 - 596 pages
...power, bccaufe it ii applied to the decoration of fomething more excellent than itfelf. All that verfe can do is to help the memory, and delight the ear, and for thefe purpofes it may be very ufeful; but it fupplies nothing to the mind. The ideas of Chriilian Theology... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 498 pages
...power, becaufe it is applied to the decoration of fomething more excellent than itfelf. All that verfe can do is to help the memory, and delight the ear, and for thele purpofes it may be very ufeful ; but it lupflies nothing to the mind. The ideas of Chrifa tian... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...becaufe it is applied to the decoration of fomething more excellent than itfelf. All that pious verfe can do is to help the memory, and delight the ear, and for thefe purpofes it may be very ufeful ; but it fupplies nothing to the mind. The ideas of Chriftian... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 498 pages
...becaufe it is applied to the decoration of fomething more excellent than itfelf. All that pious verfe can do is to help the memory, and delight the ear, and for thefe purpofes it may be very ufcful ; but it fupplies nothing to the mind. The ideas of Chriftian... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 344 pages
...becaufe it is applied to the decoration of fomething more excellent than itfelf. All that pious verfe can do is to help the memory, and delight the ear, and for thefe purpofes it may be very ufeful ; but it fupplies nothing .to the mind. The ideas of Chriftian... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...becaufe it is applied to the decoration of fomething more excellent than itfelf. All that pious verfe can do is to help the memory, and delight the ear, and for thcfe purpofes it may be very ufeliul; but it fupplies nothing to the mind. The ideas of Chriftian... | |
 | Henry Hunter - 1794 - 508 pages
...power, becaufe it is applied to the decoration of fomething more excellent than itfelf. All that verfe can do is to help the memory and delight the ear ; and for thefe purpofes it may be very ufeful ; but it fupplies nothing to the mind. The ideas of chriftian... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1795 - 610 pages
...power, becaufe it is applied to the decoration of fomething more excellent than itfelf. All that verfe can do is to help the memory, and delight the ear, and for thefe purpofes it may be very ufeful ; but it fupplies nothing to the mind. The ideas of Chriftian... | |
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Of sentiments purely religious, it will be found that the most simple expression is the most sublime. Poetry loses its lustre and its power, because it is applied to the decoration of something more excellent than itself. 
