 What his mind could supply at call, or gather in one excursion, was all that he sought, and all that he gave. The dilatory caution of Pope enabled him to condense his sentiments, to multiply his images, and to accumulate all that study might produce,...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Pagina 252door Samuel Johnson - 1840Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 516 pagina’s
...brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems. Drydeu's performances were always hasty, either excited by some external occasion, or extorted by domestic...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,... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1835 - 496 pagina’s
...brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems. Dryden's performances were always hasty, either excited by some external occasion or extorted by domestic...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,... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1835 - 420 pagina’s
...the scythe, and levelled by the roller. — Dryden's performances were always hasty : either excited by some external occasion, or extorted by domestic...one excursion, was all that he sought and all that the gave. The dilatory caution of Pope enabled him to condense his sentiments, to multiply his images,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1835 - 472 pagina’s
...brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems. Dryden's performances were always hasty, either excited by some external occasion, or extorted by domestic...without correction. What his mind could supply at call, had found in other writers that might he accommodated to his present purpose. These benefits of nature... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 pagina’s
...hasty, either excited by some external occasion, or extorted by domestic necessity; he composed wiihout le straight succeeds, Another still, and still another...Friend, parent, neighhour, first it will emhrace ; all that study might produce, or chance might supply. If the flights of Dryden therefore are higher,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pagina’s
...brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems. Dryilen's performances were always hasty, cither excited by some external occasion, or extorted by domestic...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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 pagina’s
...brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems. Dryden's performances were always hasty, either excited by some external occasion, or extorted by domestic...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,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pagina’s
...brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems. Dry«leii's performances were always hasty, cither excited eless their merit» or their faults to scan, His pity...duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he all that study might produce or chance might supply. If the nights of Dryden, therefore, are higher,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pagina’s
...brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems. Dryden's performances were always hasty, either excited bj all that study might produce or chance might supply. If the flights of Dryden, therefore, are higher,... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 440 pagina’s
...brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems. 20 Dryden's performances were always hasty, either excited by some external occasion, or extorted by domestic...in one excursion, was all that he sought, and all 25 that he gave. The dilatory caution of Pope enabled him to condense his sentiments, to multiply his... | |
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