 | Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 pagina’s
...elevation of his fancy; but this is rarely to be hoped for, by Christians, from metrical devotion. Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 652 pagina’s
...rarely to be hoped by Christians from metrical devotion. Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendons, is comprised in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence...cannot be amplified ; Perfection cannot be improved. The employments of pious meditation are Faith, Thanksgiving, Repentance, and Supplication. Faith, invariably... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 484 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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 450 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...exalted; Infinity cannot be amplified; Perfection cum tot be improved. The employments of pious meditation are faith, thanksgiving, repentance, and supplication.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1825 - 576 pagina’s
...art, the exhibition of religious doctrine itself, as is supposed in the following statement: — ' Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised...cannot be amplified ; perfection cannot be improved.' True: all perfection is implied in the name of GOD; and so all the beauties and luxuries of spring... | |
 | 1825 - 368 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,... | |
 | 1825 - 368 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 - 1825 - 674 pagina’s
...hoped by Christians from metrical devotion. Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprized in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot...cannot be amplified; Perfection cannot be improved. « The employments of pious meditation are faith, thanksgiving, repentance, and supplication. Faith,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 430 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. Fatth, invariably... | |
 | Henry Hunter - 1828 - 356 pagina’s
...and elevation of his fancy ; but this is rarely to be hoped for 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,... | |
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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. 
