 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 564 pages
...therefore, are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often...frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight."* As the eighteenth century advanced, the difference between the styles of these celebrated authors became... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 pages
...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...perpetual delight. This parallel will, I hope, when it is \vell considered, be found just; and if the reader should suspect me, as I suspect myself, of some... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...performances were always hasty, e1ther excited by some external occasion, or extorted by domestick necessity ; he composed without consideration, and...delight. This parallel will, I hope, when it is well consider, ed, be found just ; and if the reader should -suspect me, as I suspect myself, of some partial... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - 424 pages
...enabled him to condense his sentirpents, to inukiply his images, and to accumulate all that study ni^ht produce, or chance might supply. If the flights of...frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight. XIII. — Story of Le Fevre. — STERNE. IT was sometime in the summer of that year in which Demlermond... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 530 pages
...condense his sentiments, to multiply his images, and to accumulate all that study might produce, or that chance might supply. If the flights of Dryden therefore...frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight. DR. JONATHAN SWIFT, • DEAN OF ST. PATRICK'S, DUBLIN.* ' * " [1667—1745.] OF eight pens, which have... | |
 | William Scott - 1817 - 416 pages
...supply- If tlie flights of Dryden therefore are higher, Pope continue* longer on the wing. If of Oryden's fire the blaze is brighter; of Pope's the heat is...frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight. XIII.— Story ofLe fever.— STERNS. IT was sometime in the summer of that year in Which Dendermond... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 398 pages
...other writer, since Milton, must give place to Pepe ; and even of Dryden it must be said, that if hie has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems....frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight. XIII. — Story of Le Fever. — STERNE. """T was sometime in the summer of that year in which Dendermond... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 406 pages
...performances were always hasty, either excited by some external occasion, or extorted by domestick necessity ; he composed without consideration, and...frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight. This_^parallel-will, I hope, when it is well considered, be found just; and if the reader should suspect... | |
 | John Dryden - 1821 - 570 pages
...therefore, are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often...frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight."* As the eighteenth century advanced, the difference between the styles of these celebrated authors became... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 308 pages
...was all that he sought, and all that he gave. The dilatory caution of Pope enabled him to con-' dense his sentiments, to multiply his images, and to accumulate...frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight. may, perhaps, show him the reasonableness of my determination. THE Works of Pope are now to be distinctly... | |
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... correction. What his mind could supply at call, or gather in one excursion, was all that he sought, and all that he gave. The dilatory caution of Pope enabled him to condense his sentiments, to multiply his images, and to accumulate all that study... 
