...accumulate all that study might produce, or chance might supply. If the flights of Dryden, therefore, arc higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden's...and Pope never falls below it. Dryden is read with fretment astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight. This parallel will, I hope, where it is well...

...contrast which he draws between Dryden and Pope, he thus sums it up, — " If the flights of Dryden are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing ; if of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope is the heat more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls...

...supply. If the flights of Dryden there"ore arc higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of Drydeu's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant. Dry* dco often surpasses expectation, and Pope never \ falb below it. Dryden i« read with frequent...

...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 ;...expectation, and Pope never falls below it. Dryden is read wilh frequent astonishment, and Pope svith perpetual delight."* We now insert the sequel of the preceding...

...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...and Pope never falls below it. Dryden is read with freanent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight. This parallel will, I hope, where it is well...

...Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. If the nights of Dryden are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If...Dryden is read with frequent astonishment ; and Pope witli perpetual delight. I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an...

...sentiments, to multiply his images, and to accumulate all that study might produce, or chance might supply. If the flights of Dry-den, therefore, are higher,...more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses exportation, mid Pope never falls be-low it. Dryden is read with freouent astonishment, and Pope with...

...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. Something has been said of Johnson's view of Gray in the discussion of that poet in Chapter 17. His...

...greatest poets: "The flights of Dryden therefore are higher, but Pope continues longer on the wing. Of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is regular and constant." Of Genius, that power which constitutes a Poet, that quality without which judgement...

...Now for his other arguments' (Fowler, under 'sentence'). 2. Binary sentences have two members. Ex: 'If the flights of Dryden therefore are higher, Pope...frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight' (Samuel Johnson, Lives of the English Poets, 3:223). Johnson's sentence also contains parallels* in...