| Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 ページ
...work is not the greatest of heroic poems only because it is not the first. ALEXANDER POPE.—Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in...local manners. The notions of Dryden were formed by comprehensive speculation; and those of Pope by minute attention. There is more dignity in the knowledge... | |
| Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 738 ページ
...range, and he collects his images and illustrations from a more extensive circumference of science. Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and...local manners. The notions of Dryden were formed by comprehensive speculation, and those of Pope by minute attention. There is more dignity in the knowledge... | |
| Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 654 ページ
...range, and he collects his images and illustrations from a more extensive circumference of science. Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and...local manners. The notions of Dryden were formed by comprehensive speculation, and those of Pope by minute attention. There is more dignity in the knowledge... | |
| Edward Walford - 1885 - 664 ページ
...and Pope in his local manners ; the notions of Dryden were formed by comprehensive speculation, those of Pope by minute attention. There is more dignity in the knowledge of Dryden, more certainty in that of Pope. Dryden is sometimes vehement, Pope always smooth ; Dryden's page is... | |
| William Swinton - 1886 - 690 ページ
...range, and he collects his images and illustrations from a more extensive circumference of science. Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and...local manners. The notions of Dryden were formed by comprehensive speculation, and those of Pope by minute attention. There is more dignity in the knowledge... | |
| William T. Ross - 1890 - 396 ページ
...range, and he collects his images and illustrations from a more extensive circumference of science. Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and...local manners. The notions of Dryden were formed by comprehensive speculation ; those of Pope by minute attention. There is more dignity in the knowledge... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1890 - 480 ページ
...range, and he collects his images and illustrations from a more extensive circumference of science. Dryden'| knew more of man in his general nature, and...manners. The notions 'of Dryden were formed — | ,/ by comprehensive speculation, and those of Pope by minute attention. There is more dignity in the knowledge... | |
| Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - 1893 - 286 ページ
...range, and he collects his images and illustrations from a more extensive circumference of science. Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and...local manners. The notions of Dryden were formed by comprehensive speculation ; and those of Pope by minute attention. There is more dignity in the knowledge... | |
| Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - 1893 - 284 ページ
...range, and he collects his images and illustrations from a more extensive circumference of science. Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and...local manners. The notions of Dryden were formed by comprehensive speculation ; and those of Pope by minute attention. There is more dignity in the knowledge... | |
| Robert Herrick, Lindsay Todd Damon - 1899 - 484 ページ
...as in the following extract from Johnson, the balanced structure will be obtrusive and monotonous : Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and...local manners. The notions of Dryden were formed by comprehensive speculation, and those of Pope by minute attention. There is more dignity in the knowledge... | |
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