 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 486 頁
...knowledge is inert ; that energy, which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden....has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems. Dryden 's performances wen; always hasty, either excited by some external occasion, or extorted by... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 370 頁
...knowledge is inert ; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates ; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden....has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems." He concludes this brilliant comparison in the following words. " If the flights of Dryden, therefore,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 382 頁
...knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates ; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden....has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems." He concludes this brilliant comparison in the following words. " If the flights of Dryden, therefore,... | |
 | William Gray - 1835 - 124 頁
...knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates ; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden....has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems. The reader may perhaps be amused by comparing what has preceded, with the subsequent short extract,... | |
 | William Gray - 1835 - 122 頁
...combines, amplifies, and animates ; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. // is not to be inferred that of this poetical vigour...has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems. The reader may perhaps be amused by comparing what has preceded, with the subsequent short extract,... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1836 - 626 頁
...knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden....has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems. FROM the preceding instances we may form an idea of the power of the Saxon language; but by no means... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 602 頁
...knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates ; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden....has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems." He concludes this brilliant comparison in the following words. " If the flights of Dryden, therefore,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 頁
...knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates ; tha superiority up to observe who was passing by. This he did so...the English had put their shirts on over UiL'ir coat sinee Milton must give place to Pope ; and even of Dryden it must be said, that, if he has brighter... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 頁
...knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden....other writer since Milton must give place to Pope ; aadeven of Dryden it must be said, that, if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems.... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1840 - 384 頁
...be allowed to Dryden. II is not to be inferred that of this poetical vigour Pope had onty a littte, because Dryden had more ; for every other writer since...has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems. From the preceding instances we may form an idea of the power of the Saxon language ; but by no means... | |
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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. It... 
