 ... 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 560edited by - 1800Full view - About this book
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1845 - 456 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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1845 - 454 pages
...inferred, that of this poetical vigor Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more ; foi 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 nol better poems. Dryden's performances were always hasty, either excited... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 pages
...this poetical vigour Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more ; for every other wri 21* ter 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... | |
 | Louis F. Klipstein - Anglo-Saxon language - 1848 - 258 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. " From the preceding instances we may form an idea... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1849 - 348 pages
...shaven by the scythe and leveled by the roller. 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. 9. Dryden's performances were always hasty, either... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...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...excited by some external occasion, or extorted by some domestic necessity ; he composed without consideration, and published without correction. What... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...inferred that of his 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 - English poetry - 1851 - 790 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." He concludes this brilliant comparison in the following... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1851 - 472 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 n,aoty, either... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1851 - 468 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... | |
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