 ... 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
 | Ackworth sch - 1865
...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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Elocution - 1866 - 600 pages
...inferred, that of this poetical vigor 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. 10. Dryden's performances were always hasty, either... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 445 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... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1862 - 600 pages
...inferred that of this poetical vigor 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. 6. Dryden's performances were always hasty, either... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868
...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... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1869
...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - Demonology - 1869
...writer, since Milton, must give place to Pope : .m,l even of Dryden it must be said, that if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems. Dryden's...always hasty, either excited by some external occasion, ,n- extorted by domestic necessity; he composed without consideration, and published without correction.... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, Sir William Smith - English literature - 1850 - 477 pages
...inferred that of this poetical vigor 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... | |
 | Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883
...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... | |
 | Robert Kidd - Elocution - 1883 - 504 pages
...inferred that of this poetical vigor 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. correction. What his mind could supply at call or... | |
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