| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 516 pages
...fmooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rifing into inequalities, and diverfified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn, maven by the fcythe, and levelled by the roller. Of genius, that power which conftitutes a poet; that... | |
| samuel johnson - 1781 - 396 pages
...fmooth, uniform, and gentle, Dryden's page is a natural field, rifing into inequalities, and diverfified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn, fhaven by the fcythe, and levelled , by :tlje roller. Of genius, that power which conftitutes a poet... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...fmooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, riling into inequalities, and diverfified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn, fhaven by the fcythe, and levelled by the roller. Of genius, that power which conftirutes a poet ;... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 676 pages
...fmooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, riling into inequalities, and diverfified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation^ Pope's is a velvet lawn, fhaven by the fcythe, and levelled by the roller. Of genius, that power which conftitutes a poet ;... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...fmooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rifing into inequalities, and diverfified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation; Pope's is a velvet lawn, fhaven by the fcythe, and levelled by the roller. Of genius, that power which conftitutes a poet; that... | |
| 1793 - 738 pages
...vehement and rapid ; Pope is always fmooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, riling into inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance...of abundant vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn, ¿haven by the fcythc, and levelled by the roller. " Of genius, that power which conftitutcs a poet... | |
| Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 906 pages
...fmooth, uciforra, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, Hung into inequalities, and diverûfied by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn, thavcn by the fcythe, and levelled by the roller. 4 " Of genius, that power which conftitutes a poet,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...of Dryden. is capricious and varied ; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. Dryden Dryden observes the motions of his own mind ; Pope constrains his mind to his own rales of composition. Difden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle.... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 564 pages
...predecessor. 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...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 pages
...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... | |
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