 | Walter Scott - 1834 - Страниц: 516
...smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation ;...shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. 1 [" Addtaon wu so eager to be the flrit name, that he and bis friend Sir Richard Steele used to run... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - Страниц: 486
...smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation ;...shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. 1 [" Addison was so eager to be the first name, that he and his friend Sir Richard Steele used to run... | |
 | William Gray - 1835 - Страниц: 122
...the deeper you go you willjind it the sweeter. The last is from the sonorous and latinized Johnson. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet ; that...must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. // is not to be inferred that of this poetical vigour Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1835 - Страниц: 484
...diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the sithe and levelled by the roller. Of genius, that power...quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge it inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, arj animates ; the superiority must, with... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1835 - Страниц: 496
...minute attention. There is more dignity in the knowledge of Dryden, and more certainty in that of Pope. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is coM, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates; the superiority... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - Страниц: 502
...smooth, uniform, and gcnttfc Drydcn's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities, and diversified ealms below ? What bark to waft me, and what wind...asks no mortal guide. Rear but the mast, the spacious iat quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - Страниц: 752
...smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities, and diversified irst " one of whom forfeitei his estate in the times...of th forest of Shotover, a zealous papist, who d ; tha superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred, that... | |
 | William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - Страниц: 370
...uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field rising into inequalities, and diversified hy the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation' ; Pope's...shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. It is not boldness', but necessity, that impels them to battle. 10. When an emphatic word is contained... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1838 - Страниц: 316
...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...shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. If the flights of Dryden are higher, Pope continues longer on the wmg. If of Dryden's fire, the blaze... | |
 | William Martin - 1838 - Страниц: 368
...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, shorn by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. RULE V, Negative sentences, or members of sentences,... | |
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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, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities, and diversified... 
