 | Edmund Burke - 1800 - عدد الصفحات: 624
...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 ; the fuperiority mud, with fome hefitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not < to be inferred that of this... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - عدد الصفحات: 522
...diverfified^by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation; Pope's is a velvet lawn, fhaven by the fcythe, and levelled by the roller.''^ ...-. -• •• •...which constitutes a poet ; that quality without which judgement ^s cold and knowledge is inert ; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates... | |
 | samuel johnson - 1781 - عدد الصفحات: 396
...:tlje roller. Of genius, that power which conftitutes a poet ; that quality without which judgement is cold and knowledge is inert ; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates; the fuperiority muft, with fome hefitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred that of this... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - عدد الصفحات: 516
...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 muft, with fome hefitation, be 'allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred that of this... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1783 - عدد الصفحات: 504
...by the roller. Of genius, that power which conftitutes a poet ; that quality without which judgement is cold and knowledge is inert ; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates ; the fuperiority muft, with fomehefitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred that of this... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - عدد الصفحات: 650
...by the roller. Of genius, that power which conftitutes a poet; that quality without which judgement is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates ; the fuperiority muft, with fome hefitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred that of this... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - عدد الصفحات: 650
...by the roller. Of genius, that power which conftirutes a poet ; that quality without which judgement is cold, and knowledge is inert ; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates ; the.fuperiority muft, with fome hefitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred that of... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1789 - عدد الصفحات: 614
...p nvers, accidentally determined 10 fome particular direction .•" and tlfewhere he fKlcs genius " that quality, without which judgment is cold, and...which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates ; always inveftigating, always ai pi ring; in its widcft fearches Hill longing to go forward, always... | |
 | William Belsham - 1789 - عدد الصفحات: 482
...powers, " accidentally determined to fome particular direc" tion:" and elfewhere he ftiles Genius " that ** quality, without which judgment is cold, and...which collects, *' combines, amplifies, and animates ; always in" veftigating, always afpiring ; in its wideft fearches, " ftill longing to go forward,... | |
 | 1793 - عدد الصفحات: 738
...lawn, ¿haven by the fcythc, and levelled by the roller. " Of genius, that power which conftitutcs a poet ; that quality without which judgment is cold,...collects, combines, amplifies, and animates ; the fuperiority muft, with fome heiitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred that of this... | |
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Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe,... 
