 | Edmund Burke - 1800 - 624 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...; 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 - 1781 - 418 pagina’s
...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 - 1781 - 396 pagina’s
...; 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 ternal occafion, or extorted by domeftick neceffity... | |
 | Several Hands - 1781 - 588 pagina’s
...for every other writer, lince Milton, mull 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 \vere always hafly, either cxchetl by feme external occaficn, or extorted by domefticneccffity ; he... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...; 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 676 pagina’s
...; 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... | |
 | William Scott - 1789 - 416 pagina’s
...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 - 1795 - 906 pagina’s
...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... | |
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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. 
