| Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...professed to have learned his poetry from Dryden, whom, whenever an opportunity was presented, he praised ign'd, Perhaps he seem'd above the critic's law, And but from nature's fountains scorn some illustration, if he be compared with bin master. Integrity of understanding and nicety of discern... | |
| Richard Green Parker - English language - 1833 - 120 pages
...professed to have learned his poetry from Dryden, whom, whenever an opportunity presented, he praised through his whole life, with unvaried liberality; and perhaps his character may receive some illustration, if he be compared with his master. 14. However virtue may be neglected for a time,... | |
| Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...professed to have learned his poetry from Dryden, whom, whenever an opportunity was presented, he praised through his whole life with unvaried liberality; and perhaps his character may receive some illustration, if ho be compared with his master. Integrity of understanding and nicety of discernment... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...professed to have learned his poetry from Dryden, whom, whenever an opportunity was presented, he praised ristic quality of his poem is sublimity. He sometimes descends to the elegant, but his some illustration, it he be compared with his master. Integrity of understanding and nicety of discernment... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...professed to have learned his poetry from Dryden, whom, whenever an opportunity was presented, he praised from impatience, and »omet i mee from levity. Charles deliberated some illustration, if he be compared with hie master. Integrity of understanding and nicety of discernment... | |
| John Goldsbury, William Russell - American literature - 1844 - 444 pages
...professed to have learned his poetry from Dryden, whom, whenever an opportunity was presented, he praised through his whole life with unvaried liberality ; and, perhaps, his character may receive some illustration, if he be 5 compared with his master. Integrity of understanding, and nicety of discernment,... | |
| Richard Green Parker - English language - 1845 - 456 pages
...professed to have learned his poetry from Dryden, whom, whenever an opportunity was presented, he praised through his whole life with unvaried liberality; and perhaps his character may receive some illustration if he be compared' with his master. Integrity of understanding, and nicety of discernment,... | |
| Richard Green Parker - English language - 1845 - 454 pages
...professed to hnve learned his poetry from Dryden, whom, whenever an opportunity was presented, he praised through his whole life with unvaried liberality; and perhaps his character may receive some illustration if he he compared with his mnster. Integrity of understanding, and nicety of discernment,... | |
| John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 pages
...professed to have learned his poetry from Dryden, whom, whenever an opportunity was presented, he praised through his whole life with unvaried liberality ; and perhaps his character may receive some illustration, if he be compared with his master. Integrity of understanding and nicety of discernment... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1849 - 348 pages
...professed to have learned his poetry from Dryden, whom, whenever an opportunity was presented, he praised through his whole life with unvaried liberality ; and perhaps his character may receive some illustration, if he be compared with his master. 2. Integrity of understanding, and nicety of... | |
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