 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pages
...smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn, sbaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. Of geniu?, that power which constitutes a poet; that... | |
 | 1808 - 408 pages
...smooth, uniform, aud gentle. Dryden 's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities, and divcrsiutd by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, aud levelled by the roller. Of genii», that power which consul-îles a poet... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 pages
...smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet ;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 pages
...smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet ;... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 pages
...smooth, uniform, and gentle. Drydtn's page is a natural field, rising inlo inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by tlie scythe, and levelled by the roller. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet ;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 494 pages
...smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the sithe, and levelled by the roller. said, that, if he has brighter paragraphs, he has... | |
 | John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton - 1811 - 642 pages
...to hii own rales of competition. Dryden is fometiraes vehement and rapid ; Pope is always fraooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field,...exuberance of abundant vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawUi Ihaven by the fcythe, and levelled by the roller, " Of geniui, that power which conftltutes a... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 pages
...smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. bines, amplifies, and animates ; d1e superiority... | |
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Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind, Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities and diversified... 
