 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
 | Sharon Turner - 1805 - 534 pages
...conllitution was preferved with decent reverence. JOHNsON. Of genius, that power which conftitutes a poet ; that quality without which judgment is cold...collects, combines, amplifies, and animates ; the fuperiority mujt, with fume hcfitation, be allowed to Dryden. // is not to be inferred that of this... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 564 pages
...rising into inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation ; Pope's js a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and levelled...roller. " Of genius, that power which constitutes q. poet; that quality, without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert ; that energy, which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 pages
...field, rising inter mequahtie*, and diversified by 106 LIFE OF POPE. the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the...which constitutes a poet ; that quality without which judgpient is cold, and knowledge is inert ; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies* and animates;... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 pages
...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...constitutes a poet ; that quality •without which judg-. fiii-iit is cold, and knowledge is inert ; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies,... | |
 | John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton - 1811 - 642 pages
...poet, thould be read ; in which " the fuperiority of genius, that power which conftitutes a pott ; that quality without which judgment is cold and knowledge...which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates;" IK, " with fome hefitatiou," attributed to Dryden. " He profefled to have leamed his poetry from Dryden,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - 582 pages
...the latter poet, Ihould be read , in which " the fuperiority of genius, that power which conliitutes a poet ; that quality without which judgment is cold and knowledge is inert ; that energy which collect, combines, amplifies, and animates;" is, " with foine hefitation," attributed to Dryden. "... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 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. bines, amplifies, and animates ; d1e superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden.... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - 424 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...and levelled by the roller. Of genius— that power that constitutes a poet ! tha* quality, without which judgment is cold and knowledge is inert ; that... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 530 pages
...and diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shavenby the scythe and levelled by the roller. ' Of genius,...which constitutes a poet, that quality without which judgement is cold and .knowledge is inert, that energy which collects*, combines, amplifies, and animates,... | |
 | William Scott - 1817 - 416 pages
...into inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation ; Pope's is the velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. Of genius — that power that constitutes a poet ; that quality, without which judgment is cold and knowledge is inert ; that... | |
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