 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1819 - 364 pages
...energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates; the superiority roust, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred, that, of this poetical vigour Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more ; for every other writer since Milton must give place to Pope ; and even of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 404 pages
...energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates ; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred, that of this poetical vigour Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more : for every other writer since Milton must give place to Pope ; and even of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 412 pages
...energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates ; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred, that of this poetical vigour Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more : for every other writer since Milton must give place to Pope ; and even of... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 pages
...energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates — the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred, that of this poetical vigor, Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more ; for every othi-r writer, since Milton, must... | |
 | John Dryden - 1821 - 570 pages
...energy, which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates ; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred, that of this poetical vigour Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more ; for every other writer, since Milton, must give place to Pope : and even... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 308 pages
...energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred, that of this poetical vigour Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more; for every other writer since Milton must give place to Pope; and even of Dryden... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates — the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred, that of this poetical vigour, Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more ; for every other writer, since Milton, must give place to Pope ; and even... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Anglo-Saxons - 1823 - 580 pages
...which collects, combines, amplifies, •/./,/ animates ; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred that of this poetical vigour Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more ; for every other writer since Milton must give place to Pope ; and even of... | |
 | John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates ; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be -allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred, that of this 3 «6 THE AMERICAN [Lesson 7. poetical vigour Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more : for... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates ; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred, that of this poetical vigour Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more ; for every other writer since Milton must give place to Pope ; and even of... | |
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Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more ; for every other writer since Milton must give place to Pope ; and even of Dryden it must be said, that, if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems. 
