 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 344 pages
...Dryden observes the motions of his own mind ; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of comfjpsitiou. 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 by the varied exuberance... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1854 - 398 pages
...contrast, and correspondence : " As face answereth to face in water, so the heart of man to man." " Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid : Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle." Connexion and continuance : " He came unto his own, and his own received him not." Introductory phrase... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1854 - 512 pages
...and uniform. Dryden observes 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, jmiform, and gentle._ Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities, and diversified by... | |
 | American periodicals - 1855 - 504 pages
...cautious and uniform. Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind ; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid...shaven by the scythe and levelled by the roller." These words, mutatis mutandis, will apply almost as well to Dickens and Thackeray. Yet the most beautiful... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1856 - 320 pages
...cautious and uniform. Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind ; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid...vegetation; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the sythe, and leveled by the roller. If the flights of Dryden are higher, Pope continues longer on the... | |
 | 1856 - 428 pages
...own mind ; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden ie sometimes vehe:rent and rapid ; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle....vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the eythe and levelled by the roller. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet ; that quality without... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...cautious and uniform; Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind, Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid;...genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that qualitv without which judgment is cold and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines,... | |
 | Verlyn Klinkenborg, Herbert Cahoon, Pierpont Morgan Library - Antiques & Collectibles - 1981 - 274 pages
...longer on the wing. Of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is regular and constant." Of Genius, that power which constitutes a Poet, that quality without which judgement is cold, and knowledge is meri, that-wJ»f-energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and... | |
 | Kathryn J. Gutzwiller - Country life in literature - 1991 - 322 pages
...composition dovetails with his theory of pastoral, as the generic representative of nature itself: "Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities,...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 - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 290 pages
...a standard of a different and evidently more encompassing form of genius by which to measure Pope: "Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgement is cold and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates... | |
| |
The style of Dryden is capricious and varied, that of Pope is cautious and uniform; 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,... 
