 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...  The Works of Alexander Pope ... - Σελίδα 61των Alexander Pope - 1856 - 504 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | George Payn Quackenbos - 1861 - 468 σελίδες
...and rapid ; Pope is always smooth, Uniterm, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance...shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. " Of genius,—that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 σελίδες
...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...Dryden. It is not to be inferred that of this poetical vigor Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more ; for every other writer since Milton must give... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 528 σελίδες
...rapid ; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, 15 rising into inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance...that quality, without which judgment is cold, and knowl20 edge is inert, — that energy, which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates, — the... | |
 | George Harley Kirk - 1863 - 240 σελίδες
...heart". He received that spark from nature, and certainly had the genius which Johnson says is " the power which constitutes a poet, that quality without...which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates". Moore had as great and comprehensive a genius, but tempered with a more extensive circle of science... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1863 - 614 σελίδες
...and rapid ; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Drydcn's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance...Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and leveled by the roller. den. It is not to be inferred, that of this poetical vigor Pope had only a little,... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 σελίδες
...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...genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that qualitv without which judgment is cold and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines,... | |
 | Kathryn J. Gutzwiller - 1991 - 322 σελίδες
...pastoral, as the generic representative of nature itself: "Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance...Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and leveled by the roller" (p. 543). 60 Pope, "Discourse" 24, almost verbatim from Rapin, Dissertatio 19.... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 σελίδες
...measure Pope: "Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgement is cold and knowledge is inert; that energy which...must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden" (in, 111; para. 310). Since the "Life of Pope" was the last of the lives to be written (completed 5... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 2002 - 238 σελίδες
...measure Pope: "Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgement is cold and knowledge is inert; that energy which...must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden" (para. 31o). The subject here is the dialogue between two different forms of recollecting and imagining... | |
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