 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...vehement and rapid ; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance...of abundant vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the sithe, and levelled by the roller. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet ; that... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 532 pages
...vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural Reld, rising into inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance...of abundant vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. « Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1826 - 446 pages
...vehement and rapid ; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field , rising into inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance...of abundant vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. / Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 526 pages
...vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance...of abundant vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. «Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 pages
...vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page Is a natural field, rising into inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance...of abundant vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet ;... | |
 | 1826 - 434 pages
...vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 564 pages
...vehement and rapid ; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance...of abundant vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. " Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 414 pages
...vehement and rapid ; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance...of abundant vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. — Dryden's performances, were always hasty ; either... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - Readers - 1828 - 314 pages
...vehement and rapid ; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and levtiled by the roller. — Dryden's performances were always hasty ; either... | |
 | Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1829 - 344 pages
...vehement and rapid ; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. " Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet;... | |
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Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind, Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities and diversified... 
