 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 strani
...little more than a dilatation of the praise given it by Pope : Waller was smooth ; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full resounding line, The long majestic march, and energy divine. Some improvements had beeh already made in English numbers; but the full force of our language was... | |
 | John Walker - 1801 - 424 strani
...slide on the end of the second, and the falling on the last. Waller was smooth, but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full resounding line, The long majestic march, and energy divine. : to join 1 ine, i. ivine. J This rule, however, from the various sense of the triplet, is liable to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 288 strani
...less a foe, 265 Wit grew polite, and numhers learn'd to flow. Waller was smooth; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full resounding line, The long majestic march, and energy divine ; Though still some traces of our rustic vein, SJ And splay-foot verse remain'd, and will remain. Late,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 strani
...less a foe, Wit grew polite, and numbers learn'd to flow. Waller was smooth ; but Dryden tanght to join The varying verse, the full resounding line, The long majestic march, and energy divine ; Though still some traces of our rustic vein And splayfoot verse remain'd, and will remain. Late,... | |
 | George Gregory - 1808 - 352 strani
...syllables. You have an instance of both in these lines— " Waller was smooth — but Dryden taught to join " The varying verse — the full resounding line,..." The long majestic march — and energy divine." The most frequent measure next to this in English poetry is that of eight syllables. This is often... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 484 strani
...the famous triplet descriptive of Drydeu's versification : Waller was smooth ; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full resounding line. The long majestic march, and energy divine. have gained for me. Let the French and Italians value themselves on their regularity ; strength and... | |
 | Samuel Egerton Brydges, Joseph Haslewood - 1810 - 648 strani
...Juvenilia!' were published several years before Dryden was born. " Pope has said, • ' Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full resounding line, The long majestic march, and energy divine:* but but the claim of having first deserved this character, must ho granted to Wither ; although it... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 strani
...little more than a dilatation of the praise given it by Pope: Waller was smooth ; hut Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full resounding line, , The long majestic march, and energy divine. Some improvements had been already made inEnglish numbers ; but the full force of our language was... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 strani
...smooth ; but Dryden taught to join >. The varying verse, the full resounding line, ( The long majestick march, and energy divine. ) Here are the swiftness of the rapid race, and the march of slow-paced majesty, exhibited by the same poet in the same sequence of syllables, except that... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 strani
...horridus ille llefiuxft " nunwrus Satnrnius, et grave virus Waller was smooth ; but Dryden tanght to jom The varying verse, the full resounding line, The long majestic march, and energy divine. Though still some traces of our ' rustic vein And splayfoot verse remain'd, and will r. main. late,... | |
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Waller was smooth; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full resounding line, The long majestic march, and energy divine. 
