| Walter Scott - 1829 - 344 páginas
...scythe, and levelled by the roller. " Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality, without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert;...which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred, that of... | |
| John George Cochrane - 1834 - 636 páginas
...striking quality in nature." Johnson speaks of it, as " that power which constitutes a poet, that quality, without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert;...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 páginas
...striking quality in nature." Johnson speaks of it, as " that power which constitutes a poet, that quality, without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert;...which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates." We leave the reader to make his choice between the four, avowing that we ourselves are not satisfied... | |
| Walter Scott - 1834 - 516 páginas
...t."—Ti1XBOK—Spence'i Anecdotet, (Malone,) p» 114.] " Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality, without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert...which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred, that of... | |
| Walter Scott - 1834 - 486 páginas
...Spenet't Anecdotes, (Malone,) p. 114.] " Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet ; that quality, without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert...which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred, that of... | |
| William Cowper - 1835 - 382 páginas
...scythe, and levelled by the roller." " Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert;...which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates ; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred that of... | |
| William Gray - 1835 - 124 páginas
...from the sonorous and latinized Johnson. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet ; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert;...which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates ; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred that of... | |
| John Pierpont - 1835 - 484 páginas
...the sithe and levelled by the roller. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet ; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert;...which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates ; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred, that... | |
| William Cowper - 1835 - 370 páginas
...scythe, and levelled by the roller." " Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert...which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates ; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred that of... | |
| Sharon Turner - 1836 - 626 páginas
...with decent reverence. in. JOHNSON. Of genius, that power, which constitutes a poet; that quality, without which judgment is cold and knowledge is inert;...which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred that of... | |
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