...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,...frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight. This parallel will, I hope, when it is well considered, be found just ; and if the reader should suspect...

...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,...is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and "onstant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls below it Dryden is read with freauent...

...one excursion, was all that he nought, and all that he gave. The dilatory caution of Pope enabled him to condense his sentiments, to multiply his images,...blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular ani constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls be kiw it. Dryden is read with...

...almost every line written twice over a sscund time." that he jjave. The dilatory caution of enabled him to condense his sentiments, to multiply his images, and to accumulate all that s: mi v might produce, or chance might supply. If tli> flights of Dryden, therefore, are hijriior,...

...therefore, are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often...frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight." l 1 [** I told Moore, not very long ago, ' we are all wrong, except Rogers, Crabbe, and Campbell.'...

...Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by (he scythe, and levelled by the roller. If the flights of Dryden are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If...frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight. 7. Never before were so many opposing interests, passions, and principles, committed to such a decision....

...all that he gave. The dilatory caution of Pope enabled him to condense his sentiments, to mul:iply his images, and to accumulate all that study might...are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If the blaze of Dryden's fire is brighter, the heat of Pope's is more regular anl constant. -- Dryden...

...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,...frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight. Something has been said of Johnson's view of Gray in the discussion of that poet in Chapter 17. His...

...greatest poets: "The flights of Dryden therefore are higher, but Pope continues longer on the wing. Of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is regular and constant." Of Genius, that power which constitutes a Poet, that quality without which judgement...

...Now for his other arguments' (Fowler, under 'sentence'). 2. Binary sentences have two members. Ex: 'If the flights of Dryden therefore are higher, Pope...frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight' (Samuel Johnson, Lives of the English Poets, 3:223). Johnson's sentence also contains parallels* in...