 ... is cold, and knowledge is inert ; that 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...  Lives - Page 560by Samuel Johnson - 1800Full view - About this book
 | Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1829 - 323 pages
...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 it must be said, that if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems. Dryden's performances were always hasty, either excited... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 442 pages
...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 it must be said, that, if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems. Drydcn's performances were always hasty, either excited... | |
 | Walter Scott - Chivalry - 1834
...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 it must be said, that if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems. Dryden 's performances wen; always hasty, either... | |
 | Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1834
...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 it must be said, that if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems. Drydeu's performances were always hasty, either excited... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835
...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 it must be said that, if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems." He concludes this brilliant comparison in the following... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835
...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 it must be said that, if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems." He concludes this brilliant comparison in the following... | |
 | William Gray - English literature - 1835 - 103 pages
...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 it must be said, that if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems. The reader may perhaps be amused by comparing what... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 442 pages
...inferred, that of this poetical vigour Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more; for every other s, or their glorious ends, Teach me, like thee, in various nature wise, To fall has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems. Dryden's performances were always hasty, either excited... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Anglo-Saxons - 1836
...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 it must be said, that if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems. FROM the preceding instances we may form an idea... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836
...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 it must be said that, if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems." He concludes this brilliant comparison in the following... | |
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