 | Alexander Chalmers - 1816 - 522 pagina’s
...Johnson, with majestic energy, remarks, that " whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprized in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot...cannot be amplified ; Perfection cannot be improved." Of this Smart seems to have been aware, although ambition and interest, neither illaudable in his circumstances,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 pagina’s
...comprehension and elevation of his fancy ; but this is rarely to be hoped by Christians from metrical devotion. Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised...cannot be amplified ; Perfection cannot be improved. The employments of pious meditation are Faith, Thanksgiving, Repentance, and Supplication. Faith, invariably... | |
 | Horace - 1819 - 318 pagina’s
...argument." Dr Johnson, in speaking of sacred poetry, in bis life of Waller, has*admirably said, that " whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised...cannot be amplified ; perfection cannot be improved. " Upon the whole, however, his prize poems are more accurate than the generality of his performances... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 476 pagina’s
...comprehension and elevation of his fancy : but this is rarely to be hoped by Christians from metrical devotion. Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised...cannot be amplified; Perfection cannot be improved. The employments of pious meditation are Faith, Thanksgiving, Repentance, and Supplication. Faith, invariably... | |
 | 1825 - 364 pagina’s
...remark of his which applies peculiarly to this hymn. It occurs, we believe, in his Life of Waller. — " Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised...cannot be amplified; Perfection cannot be improved." We do not question this position ; but it is, surely, within the competence of poetry to preserve,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 466 pagina’s
...comprehension and elevation of his fancy ; but this is rarely to be hoped by Christians from metrical devotion. Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised...cannot be amplified; perfection cannot be improved. The employments of pious meditation are faith, thanksgiving repentance, and supplication. Faith, invariably... | |
 | 1821 - 542 pagina’s
...is used without a definitive appropriation to that to which it is annexed ; as in this instance, " Omnipotence cannot be exalted, infinity cannot be " amplified, perfection cannot be improved ;" where the exact relation between amplitude and infinity, and between improvement, and perfection,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 428 pagina’s
...has been the ruin of many a tolerable genius ;" and Dr. Johnson, with majestic energy, remarks that " whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised...cannot be amplified; Perfection cannot be improved." The Hymn to the Supreme Being, is, in truth, a composition of great pathos and sublimity. SELECT POEMS.... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 280 pagina’s
...comprehension, and elevation of his fancy ; but this is rarely to be hoped by Christians from metrical devotion. Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised...cannot be amplified ; Perfection cannot be improved. The employments of pious meditation are Faith, Thanksgiving, Repentance, and Supplication. Faith invariably... | |
 | 1823 - 450 pagina’s
...metrical devotion. Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised lu the name of the Sapreme being. Omnipotence cannot be exalted ; Infinity cannot be amplified ; Perfection cannot be improved. All that pious verse can do Is to help the memory and delight the ear ; and for these purposes it may... | |
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Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot be exalted; Infinity cannot be amplified; Perfection cannot be improved. 
