...nature the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and life. (6) Of genius that which constitutes a poet; that quality without which...must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. (7) Jesus, who knew it well, assures you that a single grain, and a grain as small as a mustard seed,...

...or covetous before we know the meaning of either power or money. DR. S. JOHNSON : Kambler, No. 43. itself to a. farther slavery : for liberty hath a sharp and [to Pope] must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. DR. S. JOHNSON : Life of Pope. Genius is...

...diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation ; Po)w's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe and levelled by the roller. Of genius — that power...without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert ; tlial encigy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animate•— the snpeiiority must, with some...

...Uod be gracious unto thee, my son. — Gen. xliii. 25-29. [9 foreign words ont of a total of 128.] Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet ; that...and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combiner, amplifies and animates; the superiority must, with some hetitatitm, be allvwed to Dryden....

...diversified by the 'varied exuberance of abundant vegetation; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet ; that quality wiffiout which judgement is cold and knowledge is inert ; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies,...

...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...

...diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by 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; 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...

...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...

...the human mind. Because that activity of the whole mind, that genius, as Johnson nobly describes it, 'without which judgment is cold and knowledge is inert;...which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates,' is in poetry at its highest stretch and in its most energetic exertion. What we seek, therefore, what...