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" Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more ; for every other writer since Milton must give place to Pope ; and even of Dryden it must be said, that, if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems. "
The lives of the most eminent English poets (concluded). Miscellaneous lives - Page 109
by Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787
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The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Life of Dryden

Walter Scott - 1834 - 516 pages
...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 this poetical vigour Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more ; for every other writer, since Milton, must give place to Pope: and even of...
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An Historical Sketch of the Origin of English Prose Literature, and of Its ...

William Gray - 1835 - 124 pages
...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 this poetical vigour Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more ; for every other writer since Milton must give place to Pope : and even of...
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Works: Life and Letters, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1835 - 382 pages
...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 this poetical vigour Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more ; for every other writer since Milton must give place to Pope ; and even of...
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The Works of William Cowper: His Life and Letters, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1835 - 370 pages
...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 this poetical vigour Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more ; for every other writer since Milton must give place to Pope ; and even of...
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An Historical Sketch of the Origin of English Prose Literature, and of Its ...

William Gray - 1835 - 122 pages
...combines, amplifies, and animates ; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. // is not to be inferred that of this poetical vigour Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more ; for every other writer since Milton must give place to Pope: and even of...
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The American First Class Book, Or, Exercises in Reading and Recitation ...

John Pierpont - 1835 - 484 pages
...energy which collects, combines, amplifies, arj animates ; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred, that of this poetical vigor Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more ; for every other writer since Milton must give...
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The History of the Anglo-Saxons from the Earliest Period to the ..., Volume 2

Sharon Turner - 1836 - 626 pages
...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 this poetical vigour Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more; for every other writer since Milton must give place to Pope; and even of Dryden...
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Life and works of William Cowper, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1836 - 602 pages
...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 this poetical vigour Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more ; for every other writer since Milton must give place to Pope ; and even of...
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The Poetical Works of A. Pope: Including His Translation of Homer , to which ...

Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 pages
...energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates, the supcriority must, with some hesitation, my friend ! my genius ! come along ; O master of the poet, and the song ! And while the muse now st because Dryden had more; for every other writer since Milton must give place to Pope; and even of Dryden...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Lives of the poets

Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates ; tha superiority must, with some hesitation, ng by. This he did so imprudently, that he was discovered by the passenger, lor by Drake's order the because Dryden had more ; for every other writer sinee Milton must give place to Pope ; and even of...
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