| Sharon Turner - 1852 - 530 páginas
...of wealth and luxury. The image of a free constitution was preserved with decent reverence. JOHNSON. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet ; that quality, without which judgment is cold and hnowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates; the superiority... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 344 páginas
...of abundant vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe and leveled by the roller. 8. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that...must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It must not be inferred, that of this poetical vigor Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more ;... | |
| J H. Aitken - 1853 - 378 páginas
...; that energy which collects, combines, Amplifies, and dnimates — the superiority must, with sbme hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred, that of this poetical vigour Pdpe had only a little, because Dryden had mdre : for every bther writer since Milton must give place... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 512 páginas
...vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. Ofjjenins, that power which constitutes a poet ; that quality...with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not "to"be inferred that of this poetical vigour Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more ; for... | |
| James Lynd - 1854 - 350 páginas
...abandoned. JOHNSON. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet ; that quality without \vhichjudgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which...superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dry den. It is not to be inferred that of this poetical vigour Pope had only a little, because Dry... | |
| Popular educator - 1854 - 940 páginas
...abundant vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the sythe and levelled by the roller. - . Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet ; that...quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inc'rt ; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates ; the superiority must, with... | |
| Tucker Brooke, Matthias A. Shaaber - 1989 - 490 páginas
...genius is "that ception of power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is Poetry cold and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates." Genius includes invention, imagination, and judgment, and Johnson while affirming that "no man ever... | |
| David Daiches - 1979 - 336 páginas
...the scythe, and levelled by the roller. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that qualitv without which judgment is cold and knowledge is inert;...amplifies, and animates; the superiority must, with some hestitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred that of this poetical vigour Pope had only... | |
| Verlyn Klinkenborg, Herbert Cahoon, Pierpont Morgan Library - 1981 - 274 páginas
...longer on the wing. Of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is regular and constant." Of Genius, that power which constitutes a Poet, that quality without which judgement is cold, and knowledge is meri, that-wJ»f-energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and... | |
| Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 páginas
...a standard of a different and evidently more encompassing form of genius by which to measure Pope: "Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgement is cold and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates... | |
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