 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 sider
...Dryden observes the motions of his own mind ; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid ; Pope is always...shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. Of geniu?, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without V hich judgment is cold, and knowledge... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 564 sider
...Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind, Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid ; Pope is always...varied exuberance of abundant vegetation ; Pope's js a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. " Of genius, that power which constitutes... | |
 | 1808 - 408 sider
...smooth, uniform, aud gentle. Dryden 's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities, and divcrsiutd by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, aud levelled by the roller. Of genii», that power which consul-îles a poet ; that quality without... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 sider
...Dryden observes the motions of his own mind ; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid ; Pope is always...shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet ; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 sider
...Dryden observes the motions of his own mind ; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid ; Pope is always...shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet ; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 494 sider
...Dryden observes the motions of his own mind; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always...vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the sithe, and levelled by the roller. said, that, if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 464 sider
...Dryden observes the motions of his own mind ; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid ; Pope is always...of abundant vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn? I shaven by the sithe, and levelled by the roller. 3 / , Of genius, that power which constitutes a... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 sider
...and Dryden's page is a natural field, rising inter mequahtie*, and diversified by 106 LIFE OF POPE. the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation ; Pope's...shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller, Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet ; that quality without which judgpient is cold, and... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 sider
...ami rapid ; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Drydtn's page is a natural field, rising inlo inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance...abundant vegetation; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by tlie scythe, and levelled by the roller. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet ; that quality... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 sider
...Dryden observes the motions of his own mind ; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid ; Pope is always...shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge... | |
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The style of Dryden is capricious and varied ; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind ; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform,... 
