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Works: Life and Letters - Page 17
by William Cowper - 1835
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and ..., Volume 11

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 pages
...allowed more time for study, with better means of information. His mind has a larger range, and lie collects his images and illustrations from a more...local manners. The notions of Dryden were formed by V by comprehensive speculation ; and those of Pope by minute attention. There is more dignity in the...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 12

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 pages
...before he became an author had been allowed more time for study, with better means of information. His mind has a larger range, and he collects his images...Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope i* hi* local manners. The notions of Dryden were formed by cotnprehfnsive speculation ; and those of...
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The lives of the English poets

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 pages
...with better means M^t) :f ' .J . : i ••••'• ' ' f .'*• ( •** ^' r * of information. Hjs mind ( has a larger range, and he collects his images...more extensive circumference of science. Dryden knew .{r'»ij»^M*4»l.<' j* . more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners. The notions...
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The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems ..., Volume 1

John Dryden - 1811 - 582 pages
...images and illuftralions from a more extenfive circumference of fcience. Dryden knew more of man in hi» general nature, and Pope in his local manners. The notions of Dryden were formed by comprchenfive fpeculation, and thofe of Pope by minute attention. There is more dignity in the knowledge...
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The Poetical Works of John Dryden., Esq: Containing Original Poems ..., Volume 1

John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton - 1811 - 642 pages
...before he became an author knd been allowed more time for ftudy, with better means of information. His mind has a larger range, and he collects his images and illufcralionsfrom a more extenfive circumference offcience. Dryden knew more of mnn in his general...
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Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ...

William Scott - 1814 - 424 pages
...before he became an author, had been allowed more lime for study, with better means of information. His mind has a larger range, and he collects his images...of Dryden were formed by comprehensive speculation ; those of Pope, by minute attention. There is more dignity in the knowledge of Dryden, and more certainty...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 5

Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 530 pages
...knowledge, the superiority must be allowed to Dryden, whose education was more scholastic. His mind had a larger range, and he collects his images and illustrations...local manners. The notions of Dryden were formed by a comprehensive speculation, and those of Pope by minute attention. There is more dignity in the knowledge...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 11

Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 410 pages
...before he became an author had been allowed more time for study, with better means of information. His mind has a larger range, and he collects his images...of science. Dryden knew more of man in his general nature,-and Pope in his local manners. The notions of Dryden were formed by comprehensive speculation;...
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse, for the ...

William Scott - 1817 - 416 pages
...before he became an author, had been allowed more time for study, with better means of information. His mind has a larger range, and he collects his images...circumference of Science. Dryden knew more of man, in his nature ; and Pope, in his local manners. The notions of Dryden were formed by comprehensive speculation...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volume 3

Samuel Johnson - 1819 - 364 pages
...before he became an author had been allowed more time for study, with better means of information. His mind has a larger range, and he collects his images and illustrations from a more extent-re circumference of science. Dryden knew more of itan in his general nature, and Pope in his...
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