 | J H. Aitken - 1853 - 378 pàgines
...composition. Ih'vdon is sometimes vehement and rdpid; Pbpe is always smdoth, uniform, and gentle. I (ryilrn's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities,...diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation ; Pdpe's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the rbller. Of genius — that power... | |
 | Salem Town - 1854 - 412 pàgines
...his own rales of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field rising...velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the toller Exercise 5. — To Illustrate Rule 5, page 31. Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth... | |
 | Popular educator - 1854 - 922 pàgines
...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...vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the sythe and levelled by the roller. - . Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet ; that quality... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pàgines
...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...genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that qualitv without which judgment is cold and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines,... | |
 | Verlyn Klinkenborg, Herbert Cahoon, Pierpont Morgan Library - 1981 - 274 pàgines
...longer on the wing. Of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is regular and constant." Of Genius, that power which constitutes a Poet, that quality without which judgement is cold, and knowledge is meri, that-wJ»f-energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and... | |
 | Kathryn J. Gutzwiller - 1991 - 322 pàgines
...composition dovetails with his theory of pastoral, as the generic representative of nature itself: "Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities,...Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and leveled by the roller" (p. 543). 60 Pope, "Discourse" 24, almost verbatim from Rapin, Dissertatio 19.... | |
 | Virgil - 1997 - 476 pàgines
...prose, 'a natural field . . . diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation', with Pope's, 'a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller' (op. cit., HI, 222). Johnson might have applied to all Dryden's writing Pope's line 'A Wild, where... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 pàgines
...a standard of a different and evidently more encompassing form of genius by which to measure Pope: "Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgement is cold and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates... | |
 | Vassiliki Kolocotroni - 1998 - 658 pàgines
...the human mind. Because that activity of the whole mind, that genius, as Johnson nobly describes it, 'without which judgment is cold and knowledge is inert;...which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates,' is in poetry at its highest stretch and in its most energetic exertion. What we seek, therefore, what... | |
 | Scott D. Evans - 1999 - 180 pàgines
...summarizes the concept as "that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgement is cold and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates" (Life of Pope, 3.222). In the dynamism represented in this summary — its inclusion of "energy" which... | |
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The style of Dryden is capricious and varied, that of Pope is cautious and uniform ; 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,... 
