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 composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid ; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle.... The Life of John Dyrden - Página 397por Walter Scott - 1882Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Arthur Jewitt - 1818 - 520 páginas
...genius is a mind of great mental powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction:—that quality, without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert ; that energy which collects, combines^amplifies, and animate« ; always loves' tigating ; always aspiring ; in its widest researches... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 406 páginas
...composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid ; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities,...Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and leveled by the roller. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgement... | |
| William Scott - 1820 - 434 páginas
...composition.— Dryden .is sometimes vehement and rapid ; Pope is always smooth, uniform and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities,...diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation ; Pope'$ is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. Of genius — that power... | |
| William Scott - 1819 - 366 páginas
...composition. — Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid ; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance of a' bundant \egetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, anil levelled by the roller.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1821 - 402 páginas
...composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid ; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities,...Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and leveled by the roller. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet ; that quality without which... | |
| William Scott - 1823 - 396 páginas
...composition. — Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid ; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities,...and levelled by the roller. Of genius — that power that constitutes a poet ; that quality, without which, judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert ; that... | |
| John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 páginas
...composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid ; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities,...vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the sithe, and levelled by the roller. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet ; that quality without... | |
| Sharon Turner - 1823 - 580 páginas
...and luxury. The image of a free constitution was preserved with decent reverence. CHAP. III. JOHNSON. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that...quality, without which judgment is cold and knowledge it inert ; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, •/./,/ animates ; the superiority must,... | |
| 1824 - 706 páginas
...devoted to useful purposes, should be honoured and encouraged, wherever it is found. This divine power, " without which judgment is cold and knowledge is inert;...which collects, combines, amplifies and animates," whether possessed by a poet, who, like SHAKSPEARE or MILTON, soars aloft into the regions of fancy... | |
| William Scott - 1825 - 382 páginas
...vehement and rapid ; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural firld, rising into inequalities, and diversified by the varied...shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. _ Of genius — that power that constitutes a poet ; that quality, without which, judgment is cold,... | |
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