| John Dryden - 1867 - 556 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... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 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... | |
| Erastus Otis Haven - 1869 - 422 pages
...smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is n 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. * * * If the flights of Dryden, therefore, are higher,... | |
| sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 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... | |
| Walter Scott, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William) Turner - 1869 - 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 th« roller. ' [" Addison was so eager to be the drat name, that... | |
| Marcius Willson - 1870 - 382 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 leveled by the roller. If the flights of Dryden are higher, Pope continues... | |
| David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 454 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 leveled by the roller. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet, that... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1901 - 206 pages
...smooth, uniform, and gentle. Drvden'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 ;... | |
| James Morgan Hart - 1901 - 186 pages
...their children. Z. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid, Pope is always smooth, uniand diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe and levelled by the roller. JOHNsON. We were ten or twelve millions of people,... | |
| Sara Elizabeth Husted Lockwood, Mary Alice Emerson - 1901 - 488 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 leveled by the roller. JOHNSON. 6. Allusion is a reference to some familiar... | |
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