...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...

...be said of his versification will be 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 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 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...

...so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main ; when he had enjoyed for about thirty years the praise...sound and time, and produced this memorable triplet : I Waller was smooth j but Drvden taught to join -j The varying verse, the full resounding line, \...

...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...

...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...

...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 verse, the full resounding line, The long majestic march, and energy divine ; Though still some traces of our rustic vein, SJ And splay-foot...

...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...

...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 "...varying verse — the full resounding line, " The long majestic march — and energy divine." The most frequent measure next to this in English poetry is...

...passage in his memory, 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...