 What his mind could supply at call, or gather in one excursion, was all that he sought, and all that he gave. The dilatory caution of Pope enabled him to condense his sentiments, to multiply his images, and to accumulate all that study might produce,...  The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal1781הצגת קטע - מידע על ספר זה
 | Chester Noyes Greenough, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey - 1917 - 420 דפים
...perish. — LINCOLN. Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. — EMEKSON. If the flights of Dryden therefore are higher, Pope...continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden's fire the blase is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation,... | |
 | Chester Noyes Greenough, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey - 1917 - 426 דפים
...Senator Lodge on page 105. Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. — EMERSON. If the flights of Dryden therefore are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden s fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 דפים
...sentiments, to multiply his images, and to accumulate all that study might produce, or chance might supply. If the flights of Dryden therefore are higher, Pope...fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is THE ESSAY ON MAN 265 more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never... | |
 | Lawrence Lipking - 2009 - 396 דפים
...comparisons of Homer and Virgil, Dryden's superior genius is favored by being coupled with Homer's: "If the flights of Dryden therefore are higher, Pope...fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is 289 more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls below it. Dryden... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1783 - 624 דפים
...Pope enabled him to con'danfe his fentiments, to multiply his images, and to accumulate all that fiudy might produce, or chance might fupply. If the flights...continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden's fire the bfcze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and conltant. Drydea often furpafles expectation,... | |
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