...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

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