 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 by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe,...  Works: Life and Letters - Page 18by William Cowper - 1835Full view - About this book
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 906 pages
...lawn, thavcn by the fcythe, and levelled by the roller. 4 " Of genius, that power which conftitutes a poet, that quality without which judgment is cold,...which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates, the fuperiority mutt, with fome heGtation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred, that of this... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pages
...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,...is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collect;, combines, amplifies, and anirrrates; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 622 pages
...Drydcn and Pope, in the Life of the latter poet, pp. 166 — 171, edit. 1783; in which "the superiority of genius, — that power which constitutes a poet;...energy which collects, combines, amplifies and animates ;" — is, " with some hesitation," attributed to Dryden. APPENDIX. APPENDIX. NUMBER I. DRYDEN'S PATENT.... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 608 pages
...Dryden and Pope, in the Life of the latter poet, pp. 166 — 171, edit. 1783; in which "the superiority of genius, — that power which constitutes a poet;...which collects, combines, amplifies and animates;" — is, " with some hesitation," attributed to Dryden. APPENDIX. APPENDIX. NUMBER I. DRYDEN'S PATENT.... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 614 pages
...the Life of the latter poet, pp. 166—171, c <Iit. 1783; in which "the superiority of genius,—that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without...that energy which collects, combines, amplifies and animates;"—is, " with some hesitation," attributed to Drydcn. APPENDIX. APPENDIX. . \ NUMBER I. DRYDEN'S... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 340 pages
...velvet lawn, (haven by the. fcythe, and levelled by the roller. Of genius, that power which conftitutes a poet-, that quality without which judgment is cold,...collects* combines, amplifies, and animates ; the fupetiority muft, with-fome hefitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred thafof his poetical... | |
 | 1800 - 620 pages
..."the knowledge of Dryden, and more certainty in that of Pope. Of genius, that power which conftitutes a poet ; that quality, without which judgment is cold and knowledge is inert ; that energy which colleéb, combines, amplifies, and animales ; the fuperiority muft, with forne hefitation, be allowed... | |
 | 1800 - 624 pages
...the knowledge of Dryden, and more certainty in that of Pope. Of genius, that power which conftitutés a poet ; that quality, without which judgment is cold and knowledge is inert; that energy which collecb, combines, amplifies, and animates ; the fuperiority muft, with fome hcfitation, be allowed... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 606 pages
...Dryden and Pope, in the Life of the latter poet, pp. 166 — 171, edit. 1783; in which "the superiority of genius, — that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cofd and knowledge is inert ; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies and animates ;" — is,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...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 quality without V hich judgment is cold, and knowledge... | |
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