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" ... that verse commonly which they call golden, or two substantives and two adjectives, with a verb betwixt them to keep the peace. "
Original Poems and Translations - Page 8
by John Dryden - 1743
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Sylvae, Or, The Second Part of Poetical Miscellanies

John Dryden - Classical poetry - 1702 - 362 pages
...they call Golden, or two Subftantives and two Adjectives with a Verb betwixt them to keep the feace. Ovid, with all his fweetnefs, has as little variety...is always as it were upon the hand-gallop, and his Verje runs Upon Carpet ground. He avoids like the other all Synalapha's, or cutting off one Vowel when...
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The first (-sixth) part of Miscellany poems, publ. by Mr. Dryden, Part 1

Miscellany poems - 1716 - 426 pages
...is included within the compafs of four or five Lines, and then he begins again in the fame tenourj perpetually clofing his Senfe at the end of a Verfe,...variety of Numbers and Sound as he : He is always as it vi ere upon the hand-gallop, and his Verfe runs upon Carpet ground. He avoids like the other allSynalzepha's,...
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Miscellany Poems: Containing Variety of New Translations of the ..., Volume 1

John Dryden - Classical poetry - 1716 - 424 pages
...his Senfe at the end of a Verfe, and that Verfe commonly which they call Golden, or two Subftanrives and two Adjectives with a Verb betwixt them to keep the peace. Ovid, with all his fweet'hefs, has as litrle variety of 'Nombers Sosnd as he: He is arways as -it x PREFACE. were upon...
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The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq;: Containing All His Original ...

John Dryden - 1760 - 528 pages
...his fenfe at the end of a verfe, and that verfe commonly which they call golden, or two fubftantives and two adjectives, with a verb betwixt them to keep...his fweetnefs, has as little variety of numbers and found as he : he is always, as it were* upon the hand -gallop, and his verfe runs upon carpet ground....
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The Miscellaneous Works: Containing All His Original Poems, Tales ..., Volume 2

John Dryden - English poetry - 1760 - 488 pages
...his fenfe at the end of a verfe, and that verfe commonly which they call golden, or two fubftantives and two adjectives, •with a verb betwixt them to...his fweetnefs, has as little variety of numbers and found as he : he is always, as it were, upon the hand -gallop, and his verfe runs upon carpet ground....
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The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq: Containing All His Original ...

John Dryden - English poetry - 1767 - 388 pages
...his lenfe at the end of a verfe, and that verfe commonly which they call golden, or two fubftantives and two adjectives, with a verb betwixt them to keep...his fweetnefs, has as little variety of numbers and found as he : he is always as it were, upon the hand-gallop, and his verfe inns upon carpet ground....
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The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and ..., Volume 21

English poets - 1790 - 362 pages
...of a verfe, and that verfe commonly which they call golden, or two fubftantives and two adjeftives, with a verb betwixt them to keep the peace. Ovid,...his fweetnefs, has as little variety of numbers and found as he: he is always, as it were, Upon the hand-gallop> and his verfe runs upon carpet ground....
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A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Dryden. Rochester ...

1793 - 806 pages
...his fcnfe at the end of a verfe, and that verfe commonly which they call golden, or two fubAantives and two adjectives, with a verb betwixt them to keep...his fweetnefs, has as little variety of numbers and found as he : he is always, as it were, upon the handgallop, and his verfe runs upon carpet-ground....
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The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Volume 6

Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 842 pages
...his fcnfe at the ecd of a verfe, and that vcrfe commonly whft;h they call golden, or two fubflantives and two adjectives, with a verb betwixt them to keep the peace. Ovid, with all his fweetncfs, has as little variety of numbers and found as he : he is always, as it were, upon the handgallop,...
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected ...

Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1797 - 516 pages
...clofing his fenle at the end of a verfe, and verle commonly which they call golden, or two fublbntives and two adjectives, with a verb betwixt them to keep...his fweetnefs, has as little variety of numbers and found as he : he is always, as it were, upon the hand scallop, and his verfe runs upon carpet-ground....
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