...SECTION V. — 1. Give the derivations of the words printed in italics in the following sentence : — Genius ! That power which constitutes a poet ; that...quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge inert ; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates. 2. Define the terms " ellipsis"...

...wealth and luxury. The image of a free constitution was preserved with decent reverence. . JOHNSON. Of genius, that power, which constitutes a poet; that...must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It u not to be interred that of this poetical vigor Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more; for...

...sigh, or casting back one look of desire towards the power or dignity which he had abandoned. JOHNSON. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet,- that...animates ; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be a/lowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred that of this poetical vigour Pope had only a little, because...

...could. Pope and Congreve used to support it." — TONSON — Spence's Anecdotes, (Malone,) p. 114.] " Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet ; that...animates; the superiority must, -with some hesitation, he allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred, that of this poetical vigour Pope had only a little,...

...image of a free constitution was preserved urith decent reverence. •MV5 18 JOHNSON. Of genius, thai power, which, constitutes a, poet; that quality, without...amplifies, and animates, the superiority must, with, sime hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. II is not to be inferred that of this poetical vigor Pope had...

...composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities,...genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that qualitv without which judgment is cold and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines,...

...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...

...piece from either Dryden or Pope, or both, almost always including the famous comparisons: "Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities and diversified by the varied exuberance of the vegetation; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe and levelled by the roller" (2:222)....

...composition dovetails with his theory of pastoral, as the generic representative of nature itself: "Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities,...Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and leveled by the roller" (p. 543). 60 Pope, "Discourse" 24, almost verbatim from Rapin, Dissertatio 19....

...prose, 'a natural field . . . diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation', with Pope's, 'a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller' (op. cit., HI, 222). Johnson might have applied to all Dryden's writing Pope's line 'A Wild, where...