 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 Seiten
...velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 Seiten
...velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, 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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1857 - 464 Seiten
...velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, 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... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - 1857 - 470 Seiten
...lawn, shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. 11 Of genius,—that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold,...that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates;—the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be Inferred,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 Seiten
...genius, that power which constitutes a poet, that quality without which judgment is cold, and kn^vledgc is inert, that energy which collects, combines, amplifies,...allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred that of his poetical vigour Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more ; for every other writer since... | |
 | Louis F. Klipstein - 1859 - 280 Seiten
...decent reverence. JOHNSON. Of genius, that power, which constitutes a poet ; that quality, with* out which judgment is cold and knowledge is inert; that...Dryden. It is not to be inferred that of this poetical vigor Pope had only a little, because Dryderi had more ; for every other writer since Milton must give... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1914 - 502 Seiten
...human mind. Because that activity of the whole mind, that genius, as Johnson nobly describes it, ' without which judgment is cold and knowledge is inert...which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates,' is in poetry at its highest stretch and in its most energetic exertion. What we seek, therefore, what... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 924 Seiten
...lawn, shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. [50 Of genius, that power which constitutes a ~ ƛ 0 kp L q [ k0 7 7 $ w' <S B Y @ vigor Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more; for every other writer since Milton must [60... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 566 Seiten
...lawn, shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. [50 Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold...that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates—the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred... | |
 | Edward Albert - 1923 - 648 Seiten
...may surely be contented without the praise of perfection. JOHNSON, Preface to "Dictionary," 1755 (2) It is not to be inferred that of this poetical vigour Pope had only a little, because Dry den had more ; for every other writer since Milton must give place to Pope ; and even of Dryden... | |
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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. 
