 | samuel johnson - 1781 - 396 sider
...:tlje roller. Of genius, that power which conftitutes a poet ; that quality without which judgement is cold and knowledge is inert ; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates; the fuperiority muft, with fome hefitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred that of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 522 sider
...;,..-..- . Of 'genius, that power which constitutes a poet ; that quality without which judgement ^s cold and knowledge is inert ; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates ; 'the fuperiority muft, with fomehefitation, <be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 504 sider
...by the roller. Of genius, that power which conftitutes a poet ; that quality without which judgement is cold and knowledge is inert ; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates ; the fuperiority muft, with fomehefitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred that of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 sider
...by the roller. Of genius, that power which conftirutes a poet ; that quality without which judgement is cold, and knowledge is inert ; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates ; the.fuperiority muft, with fome hefitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred that of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 sider
...by the roller. Of genius, that power which conftitutes a poet; that quality without which judgement is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates ; the fuperiority muft, with fome hefitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred that of... | |
 | William Belsham - 1789 - 482 sider
...accidentally determined to fome particular direc" tion:" and elfewhere he ftiles Genius " that ** quality, without which judgment is cold, and *' knowledge is...which collects, *' combines, amplifies, and animates ; always in" veftigating, always afpiring ; in its wideft fearches, " ftill longing to go forward,... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1789 - 614 sider
...accidentally determined 10 fome particular direction .•" and tlfewhere he fKlcs genius " that quality, without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert...which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates ; always inveftigating, always ai pi ring; in its widcft fearches Hill longing to go forward, always... | |
 | 1793 - 738 sider
...fcythc, and levelled by the roller. " Of genius, that power which conftitutcs a poet ; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert;...which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates ; the fuperiority muft, with fome heiitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred that of... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 906 sider
...fcythe, and levelled by the roller. 4 " Of genius, that power which conftitutes a poet, that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert...which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates, the fuperiority mutt, with fome heGtation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred, that of... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 608 sider
...edit. 1783; in which "the superiority 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;" — is, " with some hesitation," attributed to Dryden. APPENDIX. APPENDIX. NUMBER I. DRYDEN'S PATENT.... | |
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Of genius, that power which 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. 
