 | 1872 - 660 pages
...brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems. Dryden's performances were always hasty, either excited Dy some external occasion, or extorted by domestic necessity...frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight. Life of Pope. SHAKSPEARE. SHAKSPEARE is, above all writers, — at least, above all modern writers,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1873 - 614 pages
...were always hasty, either excited by some external occasion or extorted by domestic necessity ; lie composed without consideration, and published without...frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight. 11. This parallel will, I hope, when it is well considered, be found just ; and if the reader should... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - 1874 - 468 pages
...correction. What his mind could supply at call, or gather in one excursion, was all that he sougjrt, and all that he gave. The dilatory caution of Pope...frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight." Draw Parallels, in the style of the example just given, between, 1. Napoleon and Washington. 2. Lafayette... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - 1875 - 468 pages
...Dryden, therefore, are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze ia brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant....frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight." Draw Parallels, in the style of the example just given, between, 1. Napoleon and Washington. 2. Lafayette... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1876 - 622 pages
...even of Dryden it must be said, that, if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems. rection. What his mind could supply at call, or gather in one...never falls below it. Dryden is read with frequent astonishurent, and Pope with perpetual delight. EXERCISE CXLIX. ALEXANDER, usually called ALEXANDER... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - 1877 - 468 pages
...were always hasty, either excited by some external occasion, or extorted by domestic necessity; ho composed without consideration, and published without...frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight." Draw Parallels, in the style of the example just given, between, 1. Napoleon and Washington. 2. Lafayette... | |
 | William Swinton - 1886 - 690 pages
...and even of Dryden it must be said that if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems. 8. Dryden's performances were always hasty, either excited...frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight. '50 POPE. ESSAY ON MAN.— EPISTLE I. [INTRODUCTION. — The Essay on Man consists of four Epistles,... | |
 | William T. Ross - 1890 - 396 pages
...consideration, and published without correction. What his mind could supply at call, or gather atone excursion, was all that he sought, and all that he...frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight. THE WIND AND THE MOON. GEORGE MACDONALD. SAID the Wind to the Moon, " I will blow you out; You stare... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1892 - 572 pages
...performances were always hasty, either excited by some external occasion or extorted by domestic necessity. The dilatory caution of Pope enabled him to condense...and Pope never falls below it. Dryden is read with freqnent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight." THE PRESENT CONDITION OF MAN VINDICATED HEAVEN... | |
 | George Lansing Raymond, George Post Wheeler - 1893 - 224 pages
...without correction. What his mind could supply at call, or gather in one excursion, was all that ho sought, and all that he gave. The dilatory caution...frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight." — Samuel Johnson. " What actors are met! Two Races, —that of merchants and mariners, that of laborers... | |
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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... 
