 | Edmund Burke - History - 1800 - 624 pages
...minule attention. There is more dignity in the knowledge of Dryden, and more certainty in that of Pope. Of genius, that power which conftitutes a poet ; that quality, •without which judgment is cold and1 knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 pages
...exuberance of abundant vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawnj fhaven by the fcythe, and levelled by the roller. Of genius, that power which conftitutes a...is cold and knowledge is inert ; that energy which collecls, combines, amplifies, and animates ; the fuperiority muft, with fome hefi* tation, be allowed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 516 pages
...exuberance of abundant vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn, fhaven by the fcythe, and levelled by the roller. Of genius, that power which conftitutes a...is cold and knowledge is inert ; that energy which colle&s, combines, amplifies, and animates ; the fuperiority muftj with fome hefitation, be allowed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 418 pages
...velvet lawn, fhaven by the fcythe, and levelled by the roller. Of genius, that power which conflitutes a poet ; that quality without which judgement is cold...and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, cornbines, amplifies, and animates; the iV.periority muft, with fome hefitation, be allowed to Dryden.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 522 pages
...;,..-..- . Of 'genius, that power which constitutes a poet ; that quality without which judgement ^s cold and knowledge is inert ; that energy which collects,...amplifies, and animates ; 'the fuperiority muft, with fomehefitation, <be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred that of this poetical vigour Pope had... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 516 pages
...exuberance of abundant vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn, maven by the fcythe, and levelled by the roller. Of genius, that power which conftitutes a poet; that quality without which judgement is cold arid knowledge is inert ; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates ; the fuperiority... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1783 - 504 pages
...exuberance of abundant vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn, fhaven by the fey the, and levelled by the roller. Of genius, that power which conftitutes a...amplifies, and animates ; the fuperiority muft, with fomehefitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred that of this poetical vigour Pope had... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...velvet lawn, fhaven by the fcythe, and levelled by the roller. Of genius, that power which conftirutes a poet ; that quality without which judgement is cold,...which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates ; the.fuperiority muft, with fome hefitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred that of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 676 pages
...exuberance of abundant vegetation^ Pope's is a velvet lawn, fhaven by the fcythe, and levelled by the roller. Of genius, that power which conftitutes a...without which judgement is Cold, and knowledge is inert j that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates ; the fuperiority muft, with fome hefitation,... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1789 - 614 pages
...fome particular direction .•" and tlfewhere he fKlcs genius " that quality, without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert ; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates ; always inveftigating, always ai pi ring; in its widcft fearches Hill longing to go forward, always... | |
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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. 
