...becaufe it is applied to the decoration offomething mere excellent than itlelf. All that pious verfe can do is to help the memory, and delight the ear, and for thefe purpofes it may be very ufeful ; but it fupplies nothing to the mind. 'The ideas of Chriftian...

...topicks of persuasion ; but supplication to God can only cry for mercy. Of sentiments purely religious it will be found that the most simple expression is...because it is applied to the decoration of something irtore excellent than itself. All that pious verse can do is to help the memory, and delight the ear,...

...topies of persuasion; but supplication to God can only cry for mercy. Of sentiments purely religious, it will be found that the most simple expression is...lustre and its power, because it is applied to the decorations of something more excellent than itself. All that verse can do is to help the memory, and...

...becaufe it is applied to the decoration of fomething more excellent than itfelf. All that pious verfe can do is to help the memory, and delight the ear, and for thefe purpofes it may be very ufeful ; but it fupplies nothing to the mind. The ideas of Chriftian...

...Omnipotence cannot be exalted; infinity cannot be amplified; perfection cannot be improved;") — admitting " all that pious verse can do is to help the memory, and delight the ear;" yet as for these purposes it may be very useful, * let us not entirely reject metrical psalmody. In...

...topics of persuasion ; but supplication to God can only cry for mercy. Of sentiments purely religious, it will be found, that the most simple expression...its lustre and its power, because it is applied to something more excellent than itself. All that verse can do, is to help the memory, and delight the...

...topics of persuasion ; but supplication to God can only cry for mercy. Of sentiments purely religious, it will be found, that the most simple expression is the most sublime. The ideas of Christian theology are too simple for eloquence, too sacred for fiction, and too majestic...

...alteration of a few words, be rendered applicable to the present subject. Of sentiments purely religious, it will be found, that the most simple expression is the most sublime : elegant language would lose its lustre and its power in the holy volume, because it would be applied...

...being. Omnipotence cannot be exalted ; Infinity cannot be amplified ; Perfection cannot be improved. All that pious verse can do Is to help the memory...may be very useful ; but it supplies nothing to the mint!. The ideas of Chrlatian Theology are too simple for eloquence, loo sacred for fiction, and too...

...excellence. It is the poetry of the higher and purer part of our nature. When Dr. Johnson says, that ' all that pious verse can do is to help the memory and delight the ear,'* the remark, and those which .precede, seem to us to be founded upon false conceptions of the nature...