 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,...  The Works of Samuel Johnson - Página 170por Samuel Johnson - 1816Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 páginas
...composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid ; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities,...shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. bines, amplifies, and animates ; d1e superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden.... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - 424 páginas
...composition. — Dryden is sometimes vehement and fapid ; Pope is always smooth, uniform and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities,...and levelled by the roller. Of genius— that power that constitutes a poet ! tha* quality, without which judgment is cold and knowledge is inert ; that... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 530 páginas
...composition, Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid ; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities,...of abundant vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shavenby the scythe and levelled by the roller. ' Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet, that... | |
 | William Scott - 1817 - 416 páginas
...composition.— Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid ; Pope is always smooth, uniform and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities,...varied exuberance of abundant vegetation ; Pope's is the velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. Of genius — that power that constitutes... | |
 | Arthur Jewitt - 1818 - 520 páginas
...genius is a mind of great mental powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction:—that quality, without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert ; that energy which collects, combines^amplifies, and animate« ; always loves' tigating ; always aspiring ; in its widest researches... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1819 - 364 páginas
...composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid ; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities,...combines, amplifies, and animates; the superiority roust, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred, that, of this poetical... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1819 - 364 páginas
...and rapid ; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising imo inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance...combines, amplifies, and animates ; the superiority roust, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred, that, of this poetical... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 406 páginas
...composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid ; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities,...Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and leveled by the roller. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgement... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 434 páginas
...composition.— Dryden .is sometimes vehement and rapid ; Pope is always smooth, uniform and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities,...diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation ; Pope'$ is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. Of genius — that power... | |
 | William Scott - 1819 - 366 páginas
...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 by the varied exuberance of a' bundant \egetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, anil levelled by the roller.... | |
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