 | Walter Scott - 1834 - عدد الصفحات: 486
...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, and levelled by the roller. 1 [" Addison was so eager to be the first name, that... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - عدد الصفحات: 516
...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, and levelled by the roller. 1 [" Addtaon wu so eager to be the flrit name, that... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - عدد الصفحات: 502
...smooth, uniform, and gcnttfc Drydcn's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities, and diversified ealms below ? What bark to waft me, and what wind to blow ? Thy fated Toa shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; iat... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 752
...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, and levelled by the roller. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that... | |
 | William Martin - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 368
...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, shorn by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. RULE V, Negative sentences, or members of sentences,... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 316
...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, and levelled by the roller. If the flights of Dryden are higher, Pope continues... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1839 - عدد الصفحات: 316
...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, and levelled by the roller. If the flights of Dryden are higher, Pope continues... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - عدد الصفحات: 738
...smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities, and diversified ~0 )[ K shaven by the scvthe, and levelled Ъу the roller. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 456
...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, and levelled by the roller. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet ;... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 404
...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, and levelled by the roller. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet, that... | |
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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, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities and diversified... 
