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,... Works: Life and Letters - Page 18by William Cowper - 1835Full view - About this book
| Arthur Jewitt - 1818 - 520 pages
...genius is a mind of great mental powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction:—that quality, without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert ; that energy which collects, combines^amplifies, and animate« ; always loves' tigating ; always aspiring ; in its widest researches... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1819 - 364 pages
...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...combines, amplifies, and animates; the superiority roust, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred, that, of this poetical... | |
| William Scott - 1820 - 434 pages
...rising into inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation ; Pope'$ is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. Of genius — that power that constitutes a poet } that quality, without which judgment is cold and knowledge is inert; that... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 406 pages
...varied exuberance of abundant vegetation; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and leveled by the roller. 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;... | |
| William Scott - 1819 - 366 pages
...is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, anil levelled by the roller. Of genius — that power that constitutes a poet ! that ..quality, without which, judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert ; thut energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates — the superiority must, with some... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1821 - 402 pages
...varied exuberance of abundant vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and leveled by the roller. 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;... | |
| William Scott - 1823 - 396 pages
...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...and levelled by the roller. Of genius — that power that constitutes a poet ; that quality, without which, judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert ; that... | |
| Sharon Turner - 1823 - 580 pages
...and luxury. The image of a free constitution was preserved with decent reverence. CHAP. III. JOHNSON. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that...quality, without which judgment is cold and knowledge it inert ; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, •/./,/ animates ; the superiority must,... | |
| 1824 - 706 pages
...devoted to useful purposes, should be honoured and encouraged, wherever it is found. This divine power, " without which judgment is cold and knowledge is inert;...which collects, combines, amplifies and animates," whether possessed by a poet, who, like SHAKSPEARE or MILTON, soars aloft into the regions of fancy... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 514 pages
...diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the sithe, and levelled by the roller. Of genius, that power...which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates; the supcr'crity must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred, that of this... | |
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