If the flights of Dryden therefore, are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls below it. Dryden is... Works: Life and Letters - Page 18by William Cowper - 1835Full view - About this book
| John Dryden - 1821 - 570 pages
...sentiments, to multiply his images, and to accumulate all that study might produce, or chance might supply. If the flights of Dryden, therefore, are higher, Pope...wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 308 pages
...sentiments, to multiply his images, and to accumulate all that study might produce, or chance might supply. If the flights of Dryden therefore are higher, Pope...frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight. may, perhaps, show him the reasonableness of my determination. THE Works of Pope are now to be distinctly... | |
| William Scott - 1823 - 396 pages
...sentiments, to multiply his images, and to accumulate all that study might produce, or change might supply. If the flights of Dryden, therefore, are higher, Pope...frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight. XIII. — Story of Le Fever. IT was some time in the summer of that year in which Dendermond was taken... | |
| ARTHUR MURPHY - 1823 - 616 pages
...images, and to accumulate all that study might produce, or chance might supply. If the flights of Dry den therefore are higher, Pope continues longer on the...frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight. This parallel will, I hope, when it is well considered, be found just; and if the reader should suspect... | |
| John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pages
...or chance might supply. If the flight* of Dryden, therefore, are higher, Pope continues longer oil the wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter,...frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight. This parallel will, I hope, when it is well considered, be found just : and if the reader should suspect... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 750 pages
...sentiments, to multiply his images, and to accumulate all that study might produce, or chance might supply. If the flights of Dryden, therefore, are higher, Pope...frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight. This parallel will, I hope, when it is well considered, be found just; and, if the reader should suspect... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 682 pages
...sentiments, to multiply his images, and to accumulate all that study might produce, or chance might supply. If the flights of Dryden therefore are higher, Pope...frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight. This parallel will, I hope, when it is well considered, be found just ; and if the reader should suspect... | |
| George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...sentiments, to multiply his images, and to accumulate all that study might produce, or chance might supply. If the flights of Dryden therefore are higher, Pope...frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight. This parallel will, I hope, when it is well considered, be found just ; and if the reader should suspect... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 532 pages
...sentiments, to multiply his images, and to accumulate all that study might produce, or chance might supply. If the flights of Dryden therefore are higher, Pope...never falls below it. Dryden is read with frequent as tonishment and Pope with perpetual delight. This parallel will, I hope, when it is well considered,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 524 pages
...sentiments, to multiply his images, and to accumulate all that study might produce, or chance might supply. If the flights of Dryden, therefore, are higher, Pope...surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls below it. Drydeu is read with frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight. This parallel will, I hope,... | |
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