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Page 417 - If the flights of Dryden therefore are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls below it. Dryden is read with frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight.
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Page 417 - Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more ; for every other writer since Milton must give place to Pope ; and even of Dryden it must be said, that, if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems.
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| Title | The Six Chief Lives from Johnson's Lives of the Poets: With Macaulay's Life of Johnson |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Editor | Matthew Arnold |
| Edition | 2, unabridged |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1881 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 10 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 463 pages |
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