...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 8. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment...

...and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field rising into inequalitics, and diversified by the varicd exuberance of abundant vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet...shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. Exercise. Complete the sentences by filling up the blanks with suitable antithetical expressions :...

...composition. Ih'vdon is sometimes vehement and rdpid; Pbpe is always smdoth, uniform, and gentle. I (ryilrn's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities,...diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation ; Pdpe's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the rbller. Of genius — that power...

...composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid ; Pope is always smooth, jmiform, and gentle._ Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities,...shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. Ofjjenins, that power which constitutes a poet ; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge...

...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 sythe and levelled by the roller. - . Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet ; that quality...

...composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities,...genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that qualitv without which judgment is cold and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines,...

...longer on the wing. Of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is regular and constant." Of Genius, that power which constitutes a Poet, that quality without which judgement is cold, and knowledge is meri, that-wJ»f-energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and...

...piece from either Dryden or Pope, or both, almost always including the famous comparisons: "Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities and diversified by the varied exuberance of the vegetation; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe and levelled by the roller" (2:222)....

...composition dovetails with his theory of pastoral, as the generic representative of nature itself: "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" (p. 543). 60 Pope, "Discourse" 24, almost verbatim from Rapin, Dissertatio 19....

...a standard of a different and evidently more encompassing form of genius by which to measure Pope: "Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgement is cold and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates...