 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
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pages
...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...which constitutes a poet, that quality without which jndgment is oold, and knowledge is inert, that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pages
...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, and levelled by the roller. Of genins, that power which constitutes a poet, that quality without which jndgment is cold, and knowledge... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1851 - 442 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 nights of Dryden are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 468 pages
...is a natural field, rising into inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance of abun-dant vegetation; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. His declaration, that his care for his works ceased at their publication, was not strictly true. His... | |
 | Salem Town - 1851 - 422 pages
...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, and levelled by the roller. Exercise 5. — To Illustrate Rule 5, page 31. Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 380 pages
...abundant vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and leveled by the roller. 12. Of genius, — that power which constitutes a poet,...must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. 13. It is not to be inferred that of this poetical vigor Pope had only a little, because Dryden had... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1852 - 530 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 hnowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates; the superiority... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 344 pages
...of abundant vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe and leveled by the roller. 8. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that...must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It must not be inferred, that of this poetical vigor Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more ;... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1853 - 196 pages
...page is a natural field rising into inequalitics, and diversified by the varicd exuberance of abundant vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. Exercise. Complete the sentences by filling up the blanks with suitable antithetical expressions :... | |
 | J H. Aitken - 1853 - 378 pages
...rising into inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation ; Pdpe's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the rbller. Of genius — that power which constitutes a pdet ; that quality without which judgment is... | |
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