 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 - 1840 - 742 pages
...inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation ; Pope'« is a vclvi t muel Johnson cunstilutt« a poet; that quality without which judgment ii cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy... | |
 | Jean Frédéric Ostervald - 1840 - 244 pages
...sapientice, et cognitionis qui olim erant reconditi* — GTJASSEN, that quality, without which judgment i3 cold, and knowledge is inert ; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates; always investigating; always aspiring ; in its widest researches, still longing to go forward; always... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1841 - 636 pages
...of wealth and luxury. The image of a free constitution was preserved with decent reverence. JOHNSON. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that...combines, amplifies, and animates ; the superiority must, unth some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred that of this poetical vigour Pope... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1841 - 636 pages
...of wealth and luxury. The image of a free constitution was preserved with decent reverence. JOHNSON. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet ; that quality, without which judgment is cold and knoicleilge is inert ; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates ; the superiority... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 718 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 ie cold, and knowledge is inert ; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates ; the... | |
 | James Stamford Caldwell - 1843 - 372 pages
...sorrow to delight us. 4 Of genius—that power which constitutes a poet 1 Comedy of Errors. 2 Ibid. that quality, without which judgment is cold, and...which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates. l Because they know the world, and are at ease, And, being natural, naturally please.' I love the language,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...is a natural field, rising into inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant th thankful hearts confess E'en here there may be...(1791-1823), a native of Dublin, may be said to have earned a «ome hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred that of this poetical vigour Pope... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 440 pages
...diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation : Pope's is a 10 velvet lawn, shaven by the sithe and levelled by the roller. Of genius, that power...animates ; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be 15 allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred, that of this poetical vigor Pope had only a little,... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 444 pages
...diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation : Pope's is a 10 velvet lawn, shaven by the sithe and levelled by the roller. Of genius, that power...amplifies, and animates; the superiority must, with some hesitation.be 15 allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred, that of this poetical vigor Pope had... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...exuberance of abundant vegetation, Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scvthe, and levelled Ъу obert combine», amplifies, and animates, the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden.... | |
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