 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 of abundant vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe,...  Lives of the English Poets: Swift-Lyttelton - 222 ページSamuel Johnson 著 - 1905全文表示 - この書籍について
 | Samuel Johnson - 1821 - 406 ページ
...Pope. Poetry was not the sole praise of either ; for both excelled likewise in prose; but Pope did:not borrow his prose from his predecessor. The style of...varied ; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. Dryden observes the motions of his own mind; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 ページ
...certainty in that of Pope. Poetry was not the sole praise of either ; for both excelled likewise in prose ; but Pope did not borrow his prose from his predecessor....and varied ; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. Dr3'dcn obeys the motions of his own mind ; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 384 ページ
...certainty in that of Pope. Poetry was not the sole praise of either : for both excelled likewise in prose; but Pope did not borrow his prose from his predecessor....varied; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. Dryden observes the motions of his own mind ; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 682 ページ
...certainty in that of Pope. Poetry was not the sole praise of either : for both excelled likewise in prose; but Pope did not borrow his prose ' from his predecessor....varied; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. Dryden i obeys the motions of his own mind ; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 ページ
...certainty in that of Pope. Poetry was not the sole praise of either ; for both excelled likewise in prose ; but Pope did not borrow his prose from his predecessor....varied ; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. Dryden observes the motions of his own mind ; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden... | |
 | William Scott - 1825 - 382 ページ
...the sole praise of either; for both excelled likewise in prose : But Pope did not borrow his prosn from his predecessor. The style of Dryden is capricious...and varied ; that of Pope is cautious and uniform : Drydeh obeys the motions of his own mind ; Pope constrains hi? mind to his own rules of composition.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 ページ
...certaiuty in that of 1'ope. Poetry was not the sole praise of either; for both excelled likewise in prose ; lights the Nereids of the neighhouring seaз : .,' imt-c observes the motions of his own mind; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 452 ページ
...Dry'den, and more certainty in that of Pope. celled likewise in prose : but Pope did not borrow bis prose from his predecessor. The style of Dryden is...rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and ripid ; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities,... | |
 | Montgomery Robert Bartlett - 1828 - 426 ページ
...those of Pope, by minute attention. Dryden's knowledge has more dignity, but Pope's more certainty. The style of Dryden is capricious and varied, that of Pope is cautious and uniform. but Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and leveled by the roller." " Should such a man,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1829 - 344 ページ
...in that of Pope. " Poetry was not the sole praise of either ; for both excelled likewise in prose; but Pope did not borrow his prose from his predecessor....mind, Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composi" In JOANUEM DRTDEW, poclarumfacitcprincipem. Cernat et exuviae Drydeni,—plura referre Haud... | |
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