 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 750 pages
...vehement and rapid ; Pope is always sroootk, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, risre into inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaver by (he sithe, and levelled by the roller. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; A"... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 532 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...smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural Reld, rising into inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation ; Pope's... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 452 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...rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and ripid ; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities,... | |
 | Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1829 - 344 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 his mind to his own rules of composi" In JOANUEM DRTDEW, poclarumfacitcprincipem. Cernat et exuviae Drydeni,—plura referre Haud... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1829 - 420 pages
...predecessor. The style of Dryden is capricious and varied j that of Pope is cautious and uniform : Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind , Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of compositions-Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid ; Pope is always smooth, uniform and gentle. Dryden's... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1830 - 416 pages
...capricious and varied ; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. Dryden obeys the motions of his own rmnd ; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition....exuberance of abundant vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lalwn, shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. — Dryden's performances, were always hasty... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...The style of Dryden is capricious and varied; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. Dryden observes jax made Through the broad shield, but at the corselet atay'd: Not thus the foe: his Dry den is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...style of Dryden is capris and varied, that of Pope is cautious und uniform. Dryden obeys the motions is that night ; if after candles be lighted, it will be accomplished that nig »metimes vehement and rapid. Pone is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Drys page is a natural field,... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1834 - 516 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...rules of composition. Dryden Is sometimes vehement and ,Tapid ; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 370 pages
...attention. There is more dignity in the knowledge of Dryden, and more certainty in that of Pope." Again : " Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid ; Pope is always...inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance of abun* See Murphy's " Essay OB the Genius of Dr. Johnson." t Ibid. C2 dant vegetation ; Pope's is a... | |
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The style of Dryden is capricious and varied; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. Dryden i 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,... 
