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
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 520 pages
...diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the sithe, and levelled by the roller. Of genius, that power...that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and f animates ; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be * allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred,... | |
| William Scott - 1825 - 382 pages
...is a natural firld, 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 that constitutes a poet ; that quality, without which, judgment is cold,... | |
| Philomathic institution - 1825 - 518 pages
...materials of art, and gives life to its slumbering elements ; " that quality, without which j udgment is cold, and knowledge is inert ; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates;" and of which if they attempt to possess themselves by dishonest violence, the vulture and the rock... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1825 - 346 pages
...above criticism by bringing several authorities, beginning with Dr. Johnson himself. Pope's [page] is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. — Lives of the Poets. " Through the velvet leaves the wind All unseen 'gan passage find." Love's... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 750 pages
...diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaver by (he sithe, and levelled by the roller. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; A" quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge1* inert ; that energy which collects, combines,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 446 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...constitutes a poet ; that quality without which judgment la cold, and knowledge is inert ; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates; the... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 414 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. — Dryden's performances, were always hasty ; either excited by some external occasion, or extorted... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...is a natural field, rising into inequalities, and diversified by Hie varied exuberance of abundant ght attract regard, and enforce reverence. Who can...that this amiable woman has4 no name in the venes ? aod knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates, the superiority... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - 1833 - 312 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. If the flights of Dryden are higher, Pope continues longer on the wmg. If of Dryden's fire, the blaze... | |
| John George Cochrane - 1834 - 636 pages
...answering to, and bringing out, some new and striking quality in nature." Johnson speaks of it, as " that power which constitutes a poet, that quality,...which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates." We leave the reader to make his choice between the four, avowing that we ourselves are not satisfied... | |
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