 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.  The New annual register, or General repository of history, politics, and ... - Page 171793Full view - About this book
 | Sharon Turner - Anglo-Saxons - 1805 - 534 pages
...conllitution was preferved with decent reverence. JOHNsON. Of genius, that power which conftitutes a poet ; that quality without which judgment is cold...combines, amplifies, and animates ; the fuperiority mujt, with fume hcfitation, be allowed to Dryden. // is not to be inferred that of this poetical vigour... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Great Britain - 1807 - 498 pages
...constitution teas preserved with- decent reverence. • JOHNSON. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet ; that quality without which judgment is cold...collects, combines, amplifies, and animates ; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred that of this... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 564 pages
...lawn, shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. " Of genius, that power which constitutes q. poet; that quality, without which judgment is cold,...which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred, that of this... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 pages
...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,...collects, combines, amplifies, and animates ; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred, that of this... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 pages
...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,...collects, combines, amplifies, and animates ; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred, that of this... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...by the roller, Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet ; that quality without which judgpient is cold, and knowledge is inert ; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies* and animates; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is npt to be inferred, that of this... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 pages
...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,...collects, combines, amplifies, and animates ; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred, that, of this... | |
 | John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton - 1811 - 642 pages
...poet, thould be read ; in which " the fuperiority of genius, that power which conftitutes a pott ; that quality without which judgment is cold and knowledge...which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates;" IK, " with fome hefitatiou," attributed to Dryden. " He profefled to have leamed his poetry from Dryden,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - 582 pages
...the latter poet, Ihould be read , in which " the fuperiority of genius, that power which conliitutes a poet ; that quality without which judgment is cold and knowledge is inert ; that energy which collect, combines, amplifies, and animates;" is, " with foine hefitation," attributed to Dryden. "... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. Of genius— that power that constitutes a poet ! tha* quality, without which judgment is cold and knowledge is inert ; that energy which collects, combines, amplifier and animates— the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not... | |
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