 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...  Die Entstehung der Kunstreligionby Bernd Auerochs - 2006 - 537 pagesNo preview available - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 358 pages
...Chrif; • tiar tian Theology are too fimple for eloquence, too facred for fiction, and too majeftick for ornament ; to recommend them by tropes and figures, is to magnify by a concave mirror the fidereal hemifphere. As much of Waller's reputation was owed to the foftnefs and fmoothnefs of his... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1779 - 510 pages
...ideas of Chriftian. theology are too fimple for eloquence, too facred for fiction, and too majeftick for ornament ; to recommend them by tropes and figures, is to magnify by a concave mirror the fidereal hemisphere.' £ TÍ be continued. ] A Supplement to Dr. Swift'* Works : bang a Colledkn of... | |
 | Books - 1780 - 596 pages
...ideas of Chriilian Theology are tco fimple for eloquence, too facied for fiction, and too majeftic for ornament ; to recommend them by tropes and figures, is to magnify by a concave mirror the fidereal hemifphere.' It is thus that he very properly accounts for the failure of Waller in his facred... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1780 - 590 pages
...Theology are too fimple for eloquence, too facred for fiction, and too majellic for ornament; to 1 recommend them by tropes and figures, is to magnify by a concave mirror the fidereal hemii'phere.' It is thus that he very properly accounts for the failure of Waller in his facred... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 494 pages
...of Chrif2 tian Han Theology are too fimple for eloquence, too facred for fiction^ and too majeftick for ornament ; to recommend them by tropes and figures, is to magnify by a concave mirror the fidereal hemifpheres > - As much o"f Waller's reputation was ow* ed to the foftnefs and fmoothnefs... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 498 pages
...Chrifa tian tiari Theology are too fimple for eloquence, too facred for fiction^ and too majeftick for ornament ; to recommend them by tropes and figures, is to magnify by a concave hiirrbr the fldereal hemifphere; As m'tich of Waller's reputation was ow-« ed to the fofrnefs and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1783 - 478 pages
...TheoTheology are too' fimple for eloquence, too facred for fiction, and too majeftick for brhafcnent ; to recommend them by tropes and figures^ is to magnify by a concave mirror the fidereal hemifphere." rr ( <-{;. ; .:-.: •; '.-*., . .! ; "»'.; ..-i ;x.^ --. : As much of Waller's... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 498 pages
...ideas of Chriftian Theology are too fimple for eloquence, too facred for fiction, and too majeftick for ornament ; to recommend them by tropes and figures, is to magnify by a concave mirror the fidereal hemilphere. As much of Waller's reputation was owing to the foftnefs and fmoothnefs of his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...ideas of Chriftian Theology are too fimple for eloquence, too facred for fiction, and too majeftick for ornament ; to recommend them by tropes and figures, is to magnify by a concave mirror the fidereal hemifphere. As much of Waller's reputation was owing to the ifoftnefs and fmoothnefs of his... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 344 pages
...too fimple for eloquence, too facred for .ticUon, and too majeftick for ornament; to F 2 rerecommend them by tropes and figures, is to magnify by a concave mirror the fidereal hemifphere. As much of Waller's reputation was owing to the foftnefs and fmoothnefs of his... | |
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