 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
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 454 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...amplifies, and animates ; the superiority must, with som« hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred, that of this poetical vigor Pope... | |
 | Great Britain. Committee on Education - 1847 - 606 pages
...2M2 SECTION V. 1. Give the derivations of the words printed in italics in the following sentence: — Genius! That power which constitutes a. poet; that...quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge inert; that energy which colleets, combines, amplifies, and animates. 2. Define the terms " ellipsis"... | |
 | 1847 - 508 pages
...SECTION V. — 1. Give the derivations of the words printed in italics in the following sentence : — Genius ! That power which constitutes a poet ; that...quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge inert ; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates. 2. Define the terms " ellipsis"... | |
 | Louis F. Klipstein - 1848 - 262 pages
...wealth and luxury. The image of a free constitution was preserved with decent reverence. . JOHNSON. Of genius, that power, which constitutes a poet; that...must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It u not to be interred that of this poetical vigor Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more; for... | |
 | James Lynd - 1848 - 348 pages
...sigh, or casting back one look of desire towards the power or dignity which he had abandoned. JOHNSON. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet,- that...animates ; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be a/lowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred that of this poetical vigour Pope had only a little, because... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 484 pages
...could. Pope and Congreve used to support it." — TONSON — Spence's Anecdotes, (Malone,) p. 114.] " Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet ; that...animates; the superiority must, -with some hesitation, he allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred, that of this poetical vigour Pope had only a little,... | |
 | Louis F. Klipstein - 1848 - 258 pages
...image of a free constitution was preserved urith decent reverence. •MV5 18 JOHNSON. Of genius, thai power, which, constitutes a, poet; that quality, without...amplifies, and animates, the superiority must, with, sime hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. II is not to be inferred that of this poetical vigor Pope had... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 pages
...rising into inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation; Pope's ts a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and levelled...constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is eold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates, the superiority... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 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 wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pages
...diienified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation, Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the icjthe, perpetual streams ! And you, ye five wild torrents" every...more abominable avowal of them, demand the most deci combino, amplifies, and animates, the superiority must, *ith some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden.... | |
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