 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 452 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. — Dryden's performances, were always hasty ; either... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1829 - 344 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;... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1833 - 312 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. If the flights of Dryden are higher, Pope continues... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 486 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. 1 [" Addison was so eager to be the first name, that... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 516 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. 1 [" Addtaon wu so eager to be the flrit name, that... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 pages
...smooth, uniform, and gcnttfc Drydcn's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities, and diversified ealms below ? What bark to waft me, and what wind to blow ? Thy fated Toa shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; iat... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 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... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1838 - 316 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. If the flights of Dryden are higher, Pope continues... | |
 | William Martin - 1838 - 368 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, shorn by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. RULE V, Negative sentences, or members of sentences,... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1839 - 316 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. If the flights of Dryden are higher, Pope continues... | |
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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... 
