 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 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... | |
 | Books - 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, 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 - English literature - 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 - Bible - 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 - English poetry - 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...can only cry for mercy, Of sentiments purely religious it will be found that the most simple exEon is the most sublime. Poetry loses its lustre and its power, because pplied to the decoration of something more excellent than itself. All that pious verse can do is .to... | |
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All that pious verse can do is to help the memory and delight the ear, and for these purposes it may be very useful ; but it supplies nothing to the mind. The ideas of Christian theology are too simple for eloquence, too sacred for fiction, and too majestic... 
