 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.  The Seraphim, and Other Poems - Stran xvavtor: Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1838 - 360 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 strani
...disputation is not piety, but the motives to piety; that of the description is not God, but the works of God. Contemplative piety, or the intercourse between God and the human soul, cannot be poetical. Man admitted to implore the mercy of his Cre'at-or, and plead the merits of his Redeemer, is already... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 strani
...is-not piety, but the motives to piety ; that of the description is not God, but the works of God. 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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 strani
...disputation is not piety, but the motives to piety; that of the description is not God, but the works of God. 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 strani
...not piety, -but the motives to piety ; that of the description is not God, but the works of God j.' 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 strani
...is not piety, but the •otives to piety ; that of the description is not God, but the works of God. Contemplative piety, or the intercourse between God and the human soul, cannot fce poeticaL Man, admitted to implore the mercy of his Creator, and plead the merits of his Redeemer,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 strani
...is not piety, 'but the motives to piety ; that of the description is not God, but the works of God. 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... | |
 | William Smith - 1814 - 330 strani
...motives to piety ; that of the description is not God, but the works of God. Contemplative poetry, 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... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 strani
...religion, in opposition to many authorities, has the merit of originality, and forcible reasoning. " 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 486 strani
...is not piety, but the motives to piety ; that of the description is not God, but the works of God. 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 strani
...disputation is not piety, but the motives to piety; that of the description is not God, but the works of God. 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... | |
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