 | Erasmus Middleton - 1816 - 548 oldal
...supplied. His ear was well-tuned, and his diction was elegant and copious. But his devotional poetry is, like that of others, unsatisf'actory. The paucity...matter rejects the ornaments of figurative diction. It is sufficient for Watts to have done better than others, what no man has done well.' This must be... | |
 | 1818 - 896 oldal
...which would have added to the laurels of our justly-admired moralist himself. What, for esampaucity of its topics enforces perpetual repetition, and the...matter rejects the ornaments of figurative diction." Is it possible that any man who hits taken pie, can be more truly sublime and an ample survey of the... | |
 | 1818 - 904 oldal
...opinion is more surprising. Hethusobjects to devotional poetry in a strain similar to that of Boileau: " The paucity of its topics enforces perpetual repetition, and the sanctity of Ihe matter rejects the ornaments of figurative diction." Is it possible that any man who has taken... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 464 oldal
...supplied. His ear was well-tun'd, and his diction was elegant and copious. But his devotional poetry is, like that of others, unsatisfactory. The paucity...matter rejects the ornaments of figurative diction. It is sufficient for Watts to have done better than others what no man has done well. His poems on... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1819 - 364 oldal
...supplied. His car was well tuned, and his diction was elegant and copious, but his devotional poetry is, like that of others, unsatisfactory. The paucity...the sanctity of the matter rejects the ornaments of iigurative diction. It is sufficient for Watts to have done better than others what no man has done... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 404 oldal
...and copious. But his devotional poetry is, like that of others, unsatisfactory. The paucity of his topics enforces perpetual repetition, and the sanctity...matter rejects the ornaments of figurative diction. It is sufficient for Watts to have done better than others what no man has done well. His poems on... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 412 oldal
...and copious. But his devotional poetry is, like that of others, unsatisfactory. The paucity of his topics enforces perpetual repetition, and the sanctity...matter rejects the ornaments of figurative diction. It is sufficient for Watts to have done better than others what no man has done well. His poems on... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1820 - 636 oldal
...Johnson's remark, that all devotional poetry is ' unsatis' factory,' inasmuch as ' the paucity of the topics enforces ' perpetual repetition, and the sanctity...the matter rejects the ' /ornaments of figurative diciion,'— has, like most of the general remarks of that great dogmatist, a foundation in truth ;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1821 - 402 oldal
...copious. But his devotional poetry is, like that of others, unsatisfactory. The paucity of its topicks enforces perpetual repetition, and the sanctity of...matter rejects the ornaments of figurative diction. It is sufficient for Watts to have done better than others what no man has done well. His poems on... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 284 oldal
...supplied. His ear was well-tuned, and his diction was elegant and copious. But his devotional poetry is, like that of others, unsatisfactory. The paucity...matter rejects the ornaments of figurative diction. It is sufficient for Watts to have done better than others, what no man has done well, His poems on... | |
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The paucity of its topics enforces perpetual repetition ; and the sanctity of the matter rejects the ornaments of figurative diction. It is sufficient for Watts to have done better than others what no man has done well. 
