 | Walter Scott - 1829 - 344 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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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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. 
