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" Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners. "
Works: Life and Letters - Page 17
by William Cowper - 1835
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Aids to English Composition: Prepared for Students of All Grades : Embracing ...

Richard Green Parker - 1858 - 466 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 were formed by comprehensive speculation, and Uiose of Pope by minute attention. There is more dignity in the knowledge of Dryden, and more certainty...
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A class-book of English prose, with biogr. notices, explanatory notes and ...

Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 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 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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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 pages
...second time." 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...nature, and Pope in his local manners. The notions of Drydcn were formed by comprehensive speculation ; and those of Pope by minute attention. There is more...
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The Prose and Prose Writers of Britain from Chaucer to Ruskin: With ...

Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 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 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 WORKS OF WILLIAM COWPER HIS LIFE, LETTERS, AND POEMS

1860 - 784 pages
...with its existence. Speaking1 of Dryden, Johnson observes : " His mind has a larger range, and lie Y. A'o Drydon knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his ocal manners. The notions of Dryden...
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Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets

Samuel Johnson - 1861 - 660 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...local manners. The notions of Dryden were formed by com284 Mr. Pope used to tell me, that when he had anything better than ordinary to say, and yet too...
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Aids to English Composition, Prepared for Students of All Grades: Embracing ...

Richard Green Parker - 1863 - 446 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 were formed by comprehensive speculation, and shose of Pope by minute attention.0 There is more dignity in the knowledge of Dryden, and more certainty...
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The Sixth Reader: Consisting of Extracts in Prose and Verse, with ...

George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 530 pages
...became an author, had been allowed more time for study, with better means of information. His mind 35 has a larger range, and he collects his images and...illustrations from a more extensive circumference of science. 4 Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners. The notions of Dryden...
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Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - 1866 - 654 pages
...allowed more time for study, with better means of information. His mind has a larger range, and be collects his images and illustrations from a more...knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in hi? Iqcal manners. The nottorw of Dryden were formed by com•M Mr. Pope u«ed to tell me, that when...
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The National Fifth Reader: Containing a Complete and Practical Treatise on ...

Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1866 - 618 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 illustra'tions from a more extfiisive circumference of science. Dryden knew more of man ID ' Robert Dodsley, an able miscellaneous...
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