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" If the flights of Dryden therefore are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant. "
The lives of the most eminent English poets (concluded). Miscellaneous lives - Page 110
by Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787
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The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Life of John Dryden

Walter Scott - 1829 - 344 pages
...correction. What his mind could supply at call, or gather in one excursion, was all that he sought, and all that he gave. The dilatory caution of Pope enabled him to condense his sentiments, to multiply his images, and to accumulate all that study might produce, or...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...correction. What his mind could supily at call, or gather in one excursion, was all :hat he sought, in honour clear! Nbo broke no promi«, served no private end Who condense his sentiments, to multiply his images, and to accumulate all that study might produce, or...
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The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Life of Dryden

Walter Scott - 1834 - 516 pages
...correction. What his mind could supply at call, or gather in one excursion, was all that he sought, and all that he gave. The dilatory caution of Pope enabled him to condense his sentiments, to multiply his images, and to accumulate all that study might produce, or...
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The American First Class Book, Or, Exercises in Reading and Recitation ...

John Pierpont - 1835 - 484 pages
...correction. What his mind could supply at call, or gather in one excursion, was all that he sought, and all that he gave. The dilatory caution of Pope enabled him to condense his sentiments, to multiply his images, and to accumulate all that study might produce, or...
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The Poetical Works of A. Pope: Including His Translation of Homer , to which ...

Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 pages
...correction. What his mind could supply at call, or gather in one excursion, was all that he sought, heach to vent his woes. 20 There as the solitary mourner raves, T condense his sentiments, to multiply his images, and to accumulate all that study might produce, or...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Lives of the poets

Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...correction. What his mind could supply at call, or gather in one excursion, was all that he sought, e* equality and independence which he preserved in his conversati condense his sentiments, to multiply his images, and 'to accumulate all that study might produce, or...
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Lives of the English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works ; And ...

Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 pages
...correction. What his mind could supply at call, or gather in one excursion, was all that he sought, and all that he gave. The dilatory caution of Pope enabled him to condense his sentiments, to multiply his images, and to accumulate all that study might produce, or...
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Cyclopædia of English literature, Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...correction. What his mind could supply at call, or gather in one excursion, was all that he sought, and wept, he condense his sentiments, to multiply his images, and to accumulate all that study might produce or...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...correction. What his mind could supply at call, or gather in one excursion, was all that he sought, s condense his sentiments, to multiply his images, and to accumulate all that study might produce or...
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Class Book of Prose: Consisting of Selections from Distinguished English and ...

John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 pages
...correction. What his mind could supply at call or gather in one excursion, was all that he sought, and all that he gave. The dilatory caution of Pope enabled him to condense his sentiments, to multiply his images, and to accumulate all that study might produce or...
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