 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1910 - 210 頁
...unexpected, surprises and delights. The topicks of devotion are few, and being few are universally known ; but, few as they are, they can be made no more ; they can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression. Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful... | |
 | 1843 - 1098 頁
...unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few ; and, being few, are universally known : but few as they are, they can be made no more ; they can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression. Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful... | |
 | Richard Pape Cowl - 1914 - 346 頁
...something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally known ; but, few as they are, they can be made no more ; they can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression. Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 438 頁
...something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally known ; but few as they are, they can be made no more ; they can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression. " Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more... | |
 | René Wellek - 1981 - 378 頁
...something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally known; but, few as they are, they can be made no more; they can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression." ("Grace" here means adornment, ornament; "sentiment"... | |
 | Elsie Elizabeth Phare - 1967 - 170 頁
...something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally known; but few as they are, they can be made no more: they can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment and very little from novelty of expression." I should imagine that, as a rule, those who... | |
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The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally known ; but, few as they are, they can be made no more ; they can receive no... 
