| Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 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... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 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... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 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 Maynard Leonard - English literature - 1912 - 788 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... | |
| Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 964 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 compre- [30 hensive speculation, and those of Pope by minute attention. There is more dignity in the... | |
| Philander Priestley Claxton, James McGinniss - English language - 1921 - 392 pages
...sentences may take the balanced form. United, we stand ; divided, we fall. — State Motto of Kentucky. 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 Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1921 - 506 pages
...such bigots as our fathers were." 6.--W. XXIV. SHORT SELECTIONS IN PROSE. I. DRYDEN AND POPE. DBYDEN 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... | |
| John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 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... | |
| Barrett Harper Clark - Biography - 1928 - 1452 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... | |
| Greg Clingham - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 290 pages
...always laughed the same way," and he compared Dryden and Pope in the "Life of Pope" on the grounds that "Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners" (Lives, I, 39-40; in, 111). Johnson established the groundwork for many of these future critical distinctions... | |
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