| Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pagine
...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 pagine
...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 verse, the full...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 pagine
...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 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,... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 484 pagine
...when he composed the famous triplet descriptive of Drydeu's versification : Waller was smooth ; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full...line. The long majestic march, and energy divine. have gained for me. Let the French and Italians value themselves on their regularity ; strength and... | |
| George Gregory - 1808 - 352 pagine
...line of twelve syllables. You have an instance of both in these lines— " Waller was smooth — but Dryden taught to join " The varying verse — the..." 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... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 pagine
...refinements 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,... | |
| John Dryden - 1808 - 504 pagine
...when he composed the famous triplet descriptive of Dryden's versification : Waller was smooth ; but Dryden taught to join The varying 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... | |
| John Dryden - 1808 - 482 pagine
...when he composed the famous triplet descriptive of Dryden's versification : Waller was smooth ; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full resounding line, The long niajeitic march, and energy divine. have gained for me. Let the French and Italians value themselves... | |
| George Gregory - 1809 - 384 pagine
...syllables. You have an instance of both in these lines.... " Waller was smooth — but Dryden Inught to join ".The varying verse — the full resounding line, " The long majestic inarch — and ciur«> divine." The most frequent measure next to this in English poetry is that of... | |
| Samuel Egerton Brydges, Joseph Haslewood - 1810 - 648 pagine
...Wither's $ Juvenilia!' were published several years before Dryden was born. " Pope has said, • ' Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full...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... | |
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