 | James Edward Murdoch - Elocution - 1884 - 510 pages
...range, and he collects his images and illustrations from a more extensive circumference of science. Dryden knew more of man, in his general nature; and...local manners. The notions of Dryden were formed by comprehensive speculation ; those of Pope, by minute attention. There is more dignity in the knowledge... | |
 | Edward Walford - History - 1884 - 628 pages
...to the respective excellences of Pope and his model and predecessor, Dryden. " Dryden," he says, " knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in...local manners ; the notions of Dryden were formed by comprehensive speculation, those of Pope by minute attention. There is more dignity in the knowledge... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 pages
...work is not the greatest of heroic poems only because it is not the first. ALEXANDER POPE.—Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in...local manners. The notions of Dryden were formed by comprehensive speculation; and those of Pope by minute attention. There is more dignity in the knowledge... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - English literature - 1885 - 728 pages
...range, and he collects his images and illustrations from a more extensive circumference of science. Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and...local manners. The notions of Dryden were formed by comprehensive speculation, and those of Pope by minute attention. There is more dignity in the knowledge... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - English literature - 1885 - 654 pages
...range, and he collects his images and illustrations from a more extensive circumference of science. Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and...local manners. The notions of Dryden were formed by comprehensive speculation, and those of Pope by minute attention. There is more dignity in the knowledge... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1886 - 690 pages
...range, and he collects his images and illustrations from a more extensive circumference of science. Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and...local manners. The notions of Dryden were formed by comprehensive speculation, and those of Pope by minute attention. There is more dignity in the knowledge... | |
 | William T. Ross - Elocution - 1890 - 396 pages
...range, and he collects his images and illustrations from a more extensive circumference of science. Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and...local manners. The notions of Dryden were formed by comprehensive speculation ; those of Pope by minute attention. There is more dignity in the knowledge... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1890 - 480 pages
...range, and he collects his images and illustrations from a more extensive circumference of science. Dryden'| knew more of man in his general nature, and...manners. The notions 'of Dryden were formed — | ,/ by comprehensive speculation, and those of Pope by minute attention. There is more dignity in the knowledge... | |
 | Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - Criticism - 1893 - 286 pages
...range, and he collects his images and illustrations from a more extensive circumference of science. Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and...local manners. The notions of Dryden were formed by comprehensive speculation ; and those of Pope by minute attention. There is more dignity in the knowledge... | |
 | Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - Criticism - 1893 - 284 pages
...range, and he collects his images and illustrations from a more extensive circumference of science. Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and...local manners. The notions of Dryden were formed by comprehensive speculation ; and those of Pope by minute attention. There is more dignity in the knowledge... | |
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Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners. 
