 | Edmund Burke - History - 1800 - 624 pages
...more; for every other writer fince Milton muft give place to Pope ; and even of Dryden it muft be faid, that if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems. " Dryden's performances were always hafty ; either excited by fome external occafion, or extorted by domeftic neceffity : hecompofed without... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 pages
...; for every other writer fmce Milton muft give place to Pope ; and even of Dryden it muft be faid, that if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems. Dryden's performances were always hafty, either excited by fome external occafion, or extorted by domeftick neceflity; he compofed without... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 418 pages
...for every other- writer fince Milton muft give place to Pope ; and even of Dryden it muft be faid, that if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems. Dryden's performances were always hafty, either excited by fome extern.;! ternal occafion, or extorted by ctomeftick neceffity ; he compofed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 522 pages
...for every. other writer fince Milton muft give place to Pope ; and even of Dryden it muft be faid, that if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems. Dryden's performances were always hafty, either excited by fome external occafion, or extorted by domeftick neceffity; he compofed without... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 676 pages
...; for every other writer fince Milton muft give place to Pope ; and even of Dryden it muft be faid, that, if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems. Dryden's performances were always hafty, either excited by fome external occafion, or extorted by domeftick neceflity ; he compofed without... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...more; for every other writer fince Milton muft give place to Pope; and even of Dryden it muft be faid, that, if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems. Dryden's performances were always hafty, either excited by fome external occafion, c* extorted by domeftiek neceffity; he compofed without... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...; for every other writer fince Milton muft give place to Pope ; and even of Dryden it muft be faid, that, if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems. Dryden's performances were always hafty, either excited by fome external occafion, cr extorted by domeftick neceflity ; he compofed without... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1789 - 416 pages
...more ; for every other writer fince Milton give place to Pope ; and even of Dryden it muft be faid, that if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems. Dryden's performances were always hafty ; either. excited by fame external occafion, or extorted Vy domeftic neceffity : he compofed... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 906 pages
...more, for every other writer Cnce Milton mutl give place to Pope ; and even of Dryden it muß be faid, that if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems. Dryden's performances were always hafty, either excited by fouie external occaCon, or extorted by fome domettic ncceffity ; he compofed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...anirrrates; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred that of this poetical vigour Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more ; for every otfeet •writer since Milton must give place to Pope; and even of Dryden it must be said, that, if... | |
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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. 
