 to useful purposes, should be honoured and encouraged, wherever it is found. This divine power, “without which judgment is cold and knowledge is inert ; that energy, which collects, combines, amplifies and animates,” whether possessed by a poet, who,...  Mechanics' Magazine, and Journal of Public Internal Improvement - Page 11830Full view - About this book
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1819 - 396 pages
...the scythe, and levelled by the roller. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert;...which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred, that of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1819 - 364 pages
...the scythe, and levelled by the roller. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert;...which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates; the superiority roust, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred, that,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 404 pages
...the scythe, and levelled by the roller. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert;...which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred, that of... | |
 | William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 408 pages
...varied; that of Pope is cau tious and uniOfgenius—that power that constitutes a poet; thai quality, without which judgment is cold and knowledge is inert;...that energy which collects, combines, amplifies and animates—the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred,... | |
 | William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 398 pages
...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 energy which collects, combines, amplifies and animates—the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1821 - 466 pages
...the scythe, and levelled by the roller. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet ; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert...which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates ; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred, that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1821 - 406 pages
...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; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred, that of... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 320 pages
...the scythe, and levelled by the roller. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert;...which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred, that of... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 308 pages
...the scythe, and levelled by the roller. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert;...which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred, that of... | |
 | ARTHUR MURPHY - 1823 - 616 pages
...the scythe, and levelled by the roller. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert;...which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred, that of... | |
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