| William Draper Swan - 1851 - 442 pages
...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...is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation ; and Pope never falls below it. Dryden is read with frequent... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 468 pages
...sentiments, to multiply his images, and to accumulate all that study might produce, or chance might supply. If the flights of Dryden, therefore, are higher, Pope...longer on the wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brip'htcr, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and... | |
| George William Frederick Howard Earl of Carlisle - 1851 - 54 pages
...contrast which he draws between Dryden and Pope, he thus sums it up,— " If the flights of Dryden are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing; if of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope is the heat more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pages
...sentiments, to multiply his images, and to accumulate all that stndy might produce or chance might supply. If the flights of Dryden, therefore, are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden's fires the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant, Dryden often surpasses... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 512 pages
...sentiments, to multiply his images, and to accumulate all that study might produce, or chance might supply. If the flights of Dryden, therefore, are higher, Pope...is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls belo-w it. Dryden is read with freouent... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 380 pages
...sentiments, to multiply his images, and to accumulate all that study might produce or chance might supply. If the flights of Dryden, therefore, are higher, Pope...is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls below it. Dryden is read with frequent... | |
| Henry Schroeder - 1852 - 424 pages
...masterly contrast which he draws between Dryden and Pope, he thus sums it up,— "If the flights of Dryden are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing; if of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope is the heat more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls... | |
| John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 438 pages
...sentiments, to multiply his images, and to accumulate all that study might produce, or chance might supply. If the flights of Dryden therefore are higher, Pope...is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls below it. Dryden is read with frequent... | |
| John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 pages
...sentiments, to multiply his images, and to accumulate all that study might produce, or chance might supply. If the flights of Dryden therefore are higher, Pope...fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is THE ESSAY ON MAN 265 more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never... | |
| John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 pages
...produce, or chance might supply. If the flights of Dryden therefore are higher, Pope continues longer 011 the wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls below it. Dryden is read with frequent... | |
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