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" If the flights of Dryden therefore, are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls below it. Dryden is... "
The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent Divines ... - Page 464
by Francis Wrangham - 1816
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The lives of the English poets

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 pages
...condense his sentiments, to multiply his images, and to accumulate all that study might produce, or chance might supply. If the flights of Dryden therefore...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...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and ..., Volume 11

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 pages
...his sentiments, to multiply his images, and to accuaccumulate all that study might produce, or ohance might supply. If the flights of Dryden therefore are...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...
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Prior. Congreve. Blackmore. Fenton. Gay. Granville. Yalden. Tickell. Hammond ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 464 pages
...condense his sentiments, to multiply his images, and to accumulate all that study might produce, or chanco might supply. If the flights of Dryden therefore are...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...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: Prior. Congreve. Blackmore ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 494 pages
...condense his sentiments, to multiply his images, and to accumulate all that study might produce, or chance might supply. If the flights of Dryden therefore...Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never fells below it. Dryden is read with frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight. This parallel...
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Broome, Pope, Pitt, Thomson

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...produce, or chance might supply. If the flights of Dryden therefore are higher, Pqpe continues longeron the wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter,...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...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 12

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...condense his sentiments, to multiply hi* , images, and to accumulate all that study might produce, or chance might supply. If the flights of Dryden therefore are higher, Pope cqntinues longer on the wing1. If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the h,eat is more...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes, Volume 11

Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 pages
...condense his sentiments, to multiply his images, and to accumulate all that study might produce, or chance might supply. If the flights of Dryden therefore...frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight. This parallel will, I hope, when it is \vell considered, be found just; and if the reader should suspect...
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The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems ..., Volume 1

John Dryden - 1811 - 582 pages
...accumulate all that ftudy might produce, or chance might fup. ply. If the flights of Pryden therefore arc higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden's...is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and coiillant. Dryden often furpaflcs expectation, and Pope never falls below it. Dryden is read with frequent...
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The Poetical Works of John Dryden., Esq: Containing Original Poems ..., Volume 1

John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton - 1811 - 642 pages
...produce, or chance might fup-. ply. If the nights of Dryden therefore are higher, Pope continues longer oq the wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is mor» regular and coufiaat. Dryden often furpalTes expectation, and Pope never falls below it Dryden...
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The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...condense his sentiments, to multiply his images, and to accumulate all that study might produce, or chance might supply. If the flights of Dryden therefore...frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight. This parallel will, I hope, when it is well consider, ed, be found just ; and if the reader should...
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