 | Samuel Johnson - 1866 - 654 pages
...they are correct; but Pope was In this repect exempted from the common lot of authors of that cUui. With the unwearied application of a plodding Flemish...most, who has succeeded by mere dint of genius, and ID spite of a laziness and carelessness almost peculiar to himself. His faults are numberless, bnt... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...Pope, " Never, I believe, were such talents and euch drudgery united. But I admire Dryden most, who haa succeeded by mere dint of genius, and in spite of...almost peculiar to himself . His faults are numberless, but so are his beauties." (2) Integrity, rectitude. Neither of these words is used appropriately here.... | |
 | Bible Christians - 1869 - 608 pages
...instance of a man who was too mechanical in verse-making. Still, he grants that Pope was a great poet. " With the unwearied application of a plodding Flemish...he had all the genius of one of the first masters." It is no doubt one of the faults of our modern writers that, from haste or indolence, they devote too... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1898 - 396 pages
...that indefinable something we call Genius. " But I admire Dryden most [he had been speaking of Pope], who has succeeded by mere dint of genius, and in spite of a laziness and a carelessness almost peculiar to himself. His faults are numberless, and so are his beauties. His... | |
 | JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. A.M. - 1870 - 604 pages
...that indefinable something we call Genius. " But I admire Dryden most [he had been speaking of Pope], who has succeeded by mere dint of genius, and in spite of a laziness and a carelessness almost peculiar to himself. His faults are numberless, and so are his beauties. His... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 192 pages
...are correct ; but Pope was, in this respect, exempted from the common lot of authors of that class. With the unwearied application of a plodding Flemish...believe, were such talents and such drudgery united.' It must not be hence inferred that every line written by Pope is as perfect as it should be, or may... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 168 pages
...are correct ; but Pope was, in this respect, exempted from the common lot of authors of that class. With the unwearied application of a plodding Flemish...believe, were such talents and such drudgery united.' It must not be hence inferred that every line written by Pope is as perfect as it should be, or may... | |
 | William Cowper - 1874 - 346 pages
...Error, 1. 580. 1. 655. Cp. Conversation, 1. 789. 'Pope was certainly a mechanical maker of verses ; with the unwearied application of a plodding Flemish...believe, were such talents and such drudgery united.' — To Unwin, Jan. 5, 1782. Referring to the above couplet, Macaulay remarks : ' Alfieri speaks with... | |
 | William Cowper - 1874 - 330 pages
...Error, 1. 580. 1. 655. Cp. Conversation, 1. 789. 'Pope was certainly a mechanical maker of verses ; with the unwearied application of a plodding Flemish...believe, were such talents and such drudgery united.' — To Unwin, Jan. 5, 1782. Referring to the above couplet, Macaulay remarks: ' Alfieri speaks with... | |
 | William Cowper - 1874 - 340 pages
...Error, 1. 580. 1. 655. Cp. Conversation, I. 789. 'Pope was certainly a mechanical maker of verses; with the unwearied application of a plodding Flemish...Never, I believe, were such talents and such drudgery united.'—To Unwin, Jan. 5, 1782. Referring to the above couplet, Macaulay remarks: ' Alfieri speaks... | |
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With the unwearied application of a plodding Flemish painter, who draws a shrimp with the most minute exactness, he had all the genius of one of the first masters. Never, I believe, were such talents and such drudgery united. 
