 | Edmund David Jones - 1924 - 636 pages
...circumstance. ' Contemplative piety,' says Dr. Johnson, ' or the intercourse between God and the human soul, cannot be poetical. Man, admitted to implore the mercy...the merits of his Redeemer, is already in a higher state than poetry can confer.' l The sentiment is not uncommon among serious, but somewhat fearful,... | |
 | René Wellek - 1981 - 378 pages
...but the works of God." But "contemplative piety, or the intercourse between God and the human soul, cannot be poetical. Man admitted to implore the mercy...the merits of his Redeemer is already in a higher state than poetry can confer." This can be interpreted as meaning that prayer is a higher state than... | |
 | Joan Bennett - 168 pages
...III. ' Holy Sonnet XVII. I36 Contemplative piety, or the intercourse between God and the human soul, cannot be poetical. Man admitted to implore the mercy...the merits of his Redeemer, is already in a higher state than poetry can confer.1 Devotional poetry is exposed to attack both from believers like Dr Johnson... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 696 pages
...originality, and forcible reasoning. " Contemplative piety, or the intercourse between God and the human soul, cannot be poetical. Man admitted to implore the mercy...the merits of his Redeemer, is already in a higher state than poetry can confer. The employments of pious meditation, are faith, thanksgiving, repentance,... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 pages
...Waller," "Contemplative piety, or the intercourse between God and the human soul, cannot be poetic. Man admitted to implore the mercy of his Creator and...the merits of his Redeemer is already in a higher state than poetry can confer" (I, 191). He rates Watts as having "done better what no man has done... | |
 | Vijay Mishra - 1998 - 288 pages
...his subject is sacred. . . . Contemplative piety, or the intercourse between God and the human soul, cannot be poeticaL Man admitted to implore the mercy...the merits of his Redeemer, is already in a higher state than poetry can confer.1 These are very strong words indeed. According to Dr. Johnson you can... | |
 | Frank Burch Brown - 2000 - 333 pages
...from the start. In his words, "Contemplative piety, or the intercourse between God and the human soul, cannot be poetical. Man admitted to implore the mercy...the merits of his Redeemer, is already in a higher state than poetry can confer." 11 It is perhaps not surprising that the most vivid evidence to the... | |
 | Martin Bodden - 2007 - 36 pages
...unmögliches Unterfangen sei: Contemplative piety, or the intercourse between God and the human soul, cannot be poetical. Man admitted to implore the mercy...the merits of his Redeemer is already in a higher state than poetry can confer. Drei Hauptargumente führte Samuel Johnson zur Begründung seiner These... | |
 | Elsie Elizabeth Phare - 1967 - 170 pages
...piety, or the intercourse between God and the human soul, cannot be poetical. » Life of Waller. ( 106 ) Man, admitted to implore the mercy of his Creator,...the merits of his Redeemer, is already in a higher state than poetry can confer. "The essence of poetry is invention: such invention, as by producing... | |
 | 1922 - 584 pages
...is not piety but the motive to piety, that is if the description is not God but the works of God.' mercy of his Creator, and plead the merits of his Redeemer, is already in a higher state than poetry can confer. Invention, as Johnson called the creative imagination which he thought... | |
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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. 
