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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 Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volume 1

John Dryden - 1821 - 570 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,...wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 308 pages
...con-' dense 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. may, perhaps, show him the reasonableness of my determination. THE Works of Pope are now to be distinctly...
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, a Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse for the ...

William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...condense his sentiments, to multiply his images, and to accumulate all that study might produce, or change might supply. If the flights of Dryden, therefore,...frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight. XIII. — Story of Le Fever. IT was some time in the summer of that year in which Dendermond was taken...
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THE WORKS OF SAMUEL JOHNSON LL D

ARTHUR MURPHY - 1823 - 616 pages
...images, and to accumulate all that study might produce, or chance might supply. If the flights of Dry den therefore are higher, Pope continues longer on the...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 American First Class Book, Or, Exercises in Reading and Recitation

John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...or chance might supply. If the flight* of Dryden, therefore, are higher, Pope continues longer oil 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 Samuel Johnson [ed. by F.P. Walesby].

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 750 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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Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ...

George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 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.: The lives of the English poets (cont ...

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 682 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.

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 532 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...never falls below it. Dryden is read with frequent as tonishment and Pope with perpetual delight. This parallel will, I hope, when it is well considered,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson: Lives of the poets

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 524 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,...surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls below it. Drydeu is read with frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight. This parallel will, I hope,...
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