 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 pages
...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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 464 pages
...and time, and produced this memorable triplet. U ,iihT waa f,,m 1.11)1 ; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full resounding line, The long majestic march, and energy divinc. Here are the swiftness of the rapid race, and the march of slow paced majesty, exhibited by... | |
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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: Tho' still some traces of our rustic vein And splay-foot verse remain'd, and will remain. 
