 | John Bell - 1796 - 480 pàgines
...quemquam Describi. vertere modum, formidine fustis Ad 3 bene dicendum, delectandunique redacti. • i 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 ouri rustic... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pàgines
...lightness of foot, he tried another experiment upon sound and time, and produced this memorable triplet : Waller was smooth ; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full resounding line, The long majestick march, and energy divine. Here" ave the swiftness of the rapid race, and the march of slow-paced... | |
 | John Walker - 1801 - 424 pàgines
...the end of the first line, the rising slide on the end of the second, and the falling on the last. Waller was smooth, but Dryden taught to join The varying...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 - 1804 - 190 pàgines
...our arms ; Britain to soft refinements less a foe, 265 Wit grew polite, and numbers 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 ; Tho' still some traces of our rustic... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pàgines
...and not in Greek. Smith, though a scholar, has scarcely imitated Euripides at all, in his Phaedra. Waller was smooth ; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full-resounding line, The long majestic march, and energy divine.* What ! did Milton contribute nothing... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 288 pàgines
...our arius ; Britain to soft refmements less a foe, 265 Wit grew polite, and numhers learn'd to flow. Waller was smooth; but Dryden taught to join The varying...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,... | |
 | 1808 - 388 pàgines
...defects, however, he had more music than Waller, more vigour than Denham, and more nature than Cowley. Waller was smooth — but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full-resounding line, The long majestic march, and energy divine. j f >iJf* *M ;<.'«. ttv.'enKrKul... | |
 | George Gregory - 1808 - 352 pàgines
...introduced, or an Alexandrine, or line of twelve syllables. You have an instance of both in these lines— " Waller was smooth — but Dryden taught to join "...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 appropriated... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 484 pàgines
...passage in his memory, when he composed the famous triplet descriptive of Drydeu's versification : Waller was smooth ; but Dryden taught to join The...line. The long majestic march, and energy divine. have gained for me. Let the French and Italians value themselves on their regularity ; strength and... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 504 pàgines
...passage in his memory, when he composed the famous triplet descriptive of Dryden's versification : Waller was smooth ; but Dryden taught to join The...verse, the full resounding line, The long majestic inarch, and energy divine. have gained for me. Let the French and Italians value themselves on their... | |
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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 : Though still some traces of our rustic vein And splay-foot verse remain'd, and will remain. 
