... is cold, and knowledge is inert ; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates;- the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred that of this poetical... Lives - Pągina 560editat per - 1800Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 456 pągines
...inferred, that of this poetical vigor Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more ; for every other writer, since Milton, must give place to Pope ; and even of Dryden it must be said, that if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems. Dryden's performances were always hasty, either excited... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 454 pągines
...inferred, that of this poetical vigor Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more ; foi every other writer, since Milton, must give place to Pope ; 'and even of Dryden it must be said, that if he has brighter paragraphs, he has nol better poems. Dryden's performances were always hasty, either excited... | |
| John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 pągines
...this poetical vigour Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more ; for every other wri 21* ter since Milton must give place to Pope ; and even of Dryden it must be said, that if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems. Dryden's performances were always hasty, either excited... | |
| Louis F. Klipstein - 1848 - 258 pągines
...inferred that of this poetical vigor Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more; for every other writer since Milton must give place to Pope ; and even of Dryden it must be said, that if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems. " From the preceding instances we may form an idea... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - 1849 - 348 pągines
...shaven by the scythe and leveled by the roller. a little, because Dryden had more ; for every other writer since Milton must give place to Pope : and even of Dryden it must be said, that if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems. 9. Dryden's performances were always hasty, either... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pągines
...other writer since Milton must give place to Pope ; and even of Dryden it must be said, that if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems. Dryden's...excited by some external occasion, or extorted by some domestic necessity ; he composed without consideration, and published without correction. What... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pągines
...inferred that of his poetical vigour Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more ; for every other writer since Milton must give place to Pope ; and even of Dryden it must be said, that if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems. Drydeu's performances were always hasty, either excited... | |
| William Cowper - 1851 - 790 pągines
...inferred that of this poetical vigor Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more ; for every other writer since Milton must give place to Pope ; and even of Dryden it must be said that, if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems." He concludes this brilliant comparison in the following... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 472 pągines
...inferred, that of this poetical vigor Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more ; for every other writer, since Milton, must give place to Pope ; and even of Dryden it must be said, that if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems. Dryden's performances were always n,aoty, either... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 468 pągines
...inferred, that of this poetical vigor Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more; for every other writer, since Milton, must give place to Pope; and even of Dryden it must be said, that if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems. Dryden's performances were always hasty, either excited... | |
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