 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 514 Seiten
...velvet lawn, shaven by the sithe, and levelled by the roller. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet ; that quality without which judgment is cold,...which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates; the supcr'crity must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred, that of this... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 750 Seiten
...which collects, combines, amplifies. SIK. animates; the superiority must, with some hesitation, t* allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred, that...this poetical vigour Pope had only a little, because Drjd«> had more; for every other writer since Milton ronst^*1 place to Pope ; and even of Dryden it... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 520 Seiten
...velvet lawn, shaven by the sithe, and levelled by the roller. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet ; that / quality without which judgment is cold,...that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and f animates ; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be * allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred,... | |
 | Philomathic institution - 1825 - 518 Seiten
...materials of art, and gives life to its slumbering elements ; " that quality, without which j udgment is cold, and knowledge is inert ; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates;" and of which if they attempt to possess themselves by dishonest violence, the vulture and the rock... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 446 Seiten
...the roller. / Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet ; that quality without which judgment la cold, and knowledge is inert ; that energy which collects,...animates; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be al lowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred, that of this poetical rigour Pope had only a little,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 566 Seiten
...that energy collects, combines, amplifies, and anunat superiority must, with some hesitation, 1 ed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred, that of this poetical vigour Pope had only a lit*1^. be. cause Dryden had more; for every other writer, since Milton, must give place to Pope :... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 Seiten
...without which judgt is »old and knowledge is inert, that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, M - =L O { s]G/ /N - t B3 5 ¨oò )" have I led thy sportive )t to be inferred, that of this poetical vigour Pope had only a little, because Dryhad more ; for every... | |
 | John George Cochrane - 1834 - 636 Seiten
...some new and striking quality in nature." Johnson speaks of it, as " that power which constitutes a poet, that quality, without which judgment is cold,...which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates." We leave the reader to make his choice between the four, avowing that we ourselves are not satisfied... | |
 | adolphus richter - 1834 - 506 Seiten
...some new and striking quality in nature." Johnson speaks of it, as " that power which constitutes a poet, that quality, without which judgment is cold,...which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates." We leave the reader to make his choice between the four, avowing that we ourselves are not satisfied... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1835 - 484 Seiten
...velvet lawn, shaven by the sithe and levelled by the roller. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet ; that quality without which judgment is cold,...Dryden. It is not to be inferred, that of this poetical vigor Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more ; for every other writer since Milton must give... | |
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Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates, the superiority must with some hesitation be allowed to Dryden. 
