 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...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 - Elocution - 1801 - 424 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...join -j The varying verse, the full resounding line, \ The long majestick march, and energy divine. j Here are the swiftness of the rapid race, and the march of slow- paced majesty, exhibited by the same poet in the same sequence of syllables, except that the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 288 pages
...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,...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 - English literature - 1808 - 484 pages
...his memory, when he composed the famous triplet descriptive of Drydeu's versification : Waller was smooth ; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse,...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 - Books and reading - 1808 - 352 pages
...Alexandrine, or line of twelve syllables. You have an instance of both in these lines— " Waller was smooth — but Dryden taught to join " The varying..." 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 - English poetry - 1808 - 702 pages
...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 pages
...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 majestic inarch, and energy divine. have gained for me. Let the French and Italians value themselves on their... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 482 pages
...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... | |
 | George Gregory - Books and reading - 1809 - 384 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
