 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 714 pages
...tli> flights of Dryden, therefore, are hijriior, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of Orvdt n"s fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the Heat is more regular and constant. Drydcn often surpassi-a expectation, and Pope never falls bdow it- Drydcn is read with frequent astonishment,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 484 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." l 1 [** I told Moore, not very long ago, ' we are all wrong, except Rogers, Crabbe, and Campbell.'... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1835 - 320 pages
...Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by (he scythe, and levelled by the roller. If the flights of Dryden are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If...frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight. 7. Never before were so many opposing interests, passions, and principles, committed to such a decision.... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1849 - 348 pages
...condense his sentiments, to mul:iply his images, and to accumulate all that study might produce, or chance might supply. If the flights of Dryden, therefore,...are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If the blaze of Dryden's fire is brighter, the heat of Pope's is more regular anl constant. -- Dryden... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. If the flights of Dryden are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If...frequent astonishment ; and Pope with perpetual delight. 9. I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1850 - 466 pages
...accumulate all that study might produce, or chance might supply. If the flights of Dryden, therefore, arc higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden's...and Pope never falls below it. Dryden is read with fretment astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight. This parallel will, I hope, where it is well... | |
 | George William F. Howard (7th earl of Carlisle.) - 1850 - 52 pages
...contrast which he draws between Dryden and Pope, he thus sums it up, — " If the flights of Dryden are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing ; if of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope is the heat more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 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. Something has been said of Johnson's view of Gray in the discussion of that poet in Chapter 17. His... | |
 | Bernard Marie Dupriez - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 572 pages
...Now for his other arguments' (Fowler, under 'sentence'). 2. Binary sentences have two members. Ex: 'If the flights of Dryden therefore are higher, Pope...frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight' (Samuel Johnson, Lives of the English Poets, 3:223). Johnson's sentence also contains parallels* in... | |
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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... 
