 | Ebenezer Porter - 1833 - 312 Seiten
...mmd; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's...shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. If the flights of Dryden are higher, Pope continues longer on the wmg. If of Dryden's fire, the blaze... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 486 Seiten
...Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid ; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's...shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. 1 [" Addison was so eager to be the first name, that he and his friend Sir Richard Steele used to run... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 370 Seiten
...of Dryden, and more certainty in that of Pope." Again : " Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid ; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's...inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance of abun* See Murphy's " Essay OB the Genius of Dr. Johnson." t Ibid. C2 dant vegetation ; Pope's is a... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 382 Seiten
...of Dryden, and more certainty in that of Pope.'' Again : " Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid ; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's...inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance of abun* See Murphy's " Essay on the Genius of Dr. Johnson." t Ibid. c2 dant vegetation ; Pope's is a... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 Seiten
...composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gcnttfc Drydcn's Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; iat quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 602 Seiten
...of Dryden, and more certainty in that of Pope." Again : " Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid ; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's...inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance of abun* See Murphy's " Essay on the Genius of Dr. Johnson." t Ibid. dant vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 Seiten
...Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid ; his own voice, the principal singer. Prior fell to railing at the performer with all the terms Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge... | |
 | William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 Seiten
...Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid' ; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's...natural field rising into inequalities, and diversified hy the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation' ; Pope's is a velvet lawn shaven by the scythe, and... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1838 - 316 Seiten
...mind; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's...shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. If the flights of Dryden are higher, Pope continues longer on the wmg. If of Dryden's fire, the blaze... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1838 - 716 Seiten
...composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid ; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dry. den's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities,...shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge... | |
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The style of Dryden is capricious and varied ; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind ; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform,... 
