 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 Journal1781Snippet view - About this book
 | Walter Scott - Chivalry - 1834 - 486 pages
...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...wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1834 - 516 pages
...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...wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...sentiments, to multiply his images, and 'to accumulate all that study might produce, or chance might supply. nd a few single incidents are set against the general tenor of behaviour. No man, however Dryden'B fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1838 - 716 pages
...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...Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the tieat is more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls below... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 716 pages
...his images, and to accumulate all that study might produce, or chance might supply. If Uie fliahts are some mon, of narro« views and grovelling conceptions, Dryden'e fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 440 pages
...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...continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden's fire 30 the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation,... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 444 pages
...his images, and to accumulate all that study might produce, or chance might supply. If the (lights of Dryden, therefore, are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden's fire 30 the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...multiply his images, and to accumulate all that study might produce or chance might supply. If the nights of Dryden, therefore, are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden'a fire the blaze ie brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1849 - 348 pages
...sentiments, to mul:iply his images, and to accumulate all that study might produce, or chance might supply. If the flights of Dryden, therefore, are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If the blaze of Dryden's fire is brighter, the heat of Pope's is more regular anl constant. -- Dryden... | |
 | George William F. Howard (7th earl of Carlisle.) - 1850 - 52 pages
...contrast which he draws between Dryden and Pope, he thus sums it up, — " If the flights of Dryden are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing ; if of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope is the heat more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls... | |
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