 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 236 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... | |
 | Robert Herrick, Lindsay Todd Damon - English language - 1899 - 484 pages
...as in the following extract from Johnson, the balanced structure will be obtrusive and monotonous : 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 228 pages
...and he collects his images and illustrations from a more extensive circumference of science. Drydeu 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... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - American essays - 1900 - 462 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1901 - 206 pages
...and he collects his images and illustrations from a more extensive circumference of science. Drvden 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... | |
 | Martha Hale Shackford - English language - 1908 - 496 pages
...generation ago. THE MACMILLAN COMPANY'S Catalogue. Note the contrasts brought out in the following passage. 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... | |
 | George W. Rine - English language - 1908 - 324 pages
...by the antithetical structure. The following passage from Samuel Johnson is given in illustration: "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... | |
 | George Paston - 1909 - 430 pages
...passages have been quoted. Johnson draws an interesting comparison between Dryden and Pope, remarking that 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... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey - Authors, English - 1909 - 666 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... | |
 | Grenville Kleiser - Elocution - 1911 - 458 pages
...directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. "Of Studies." LORD BACON. 3. 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... | |
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Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners. 
