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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. "
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. - Page 179
by Samuel Johnson - 1820
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Bell's Edition, Volumes 77-78

John Bell - 1796 - 480 pages
...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...
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Lives

Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pages
...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...
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A Rhetorical Grammar: In which the Common Improprieties in Reading and ...

John Walker - 1801 - 424 pages
...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...
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The works of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland. With prefaces ..., Volume 1

Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...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, \...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections ..., Volume 5

Alexander Pope - 1804 - 190 pages
...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...
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An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ...

Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...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...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions ...

Alexander Pope - 1807 - 288 pages
...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...
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The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical ..., Volume 3

1808 - 388 pages
...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...
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Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition: Addressed to His Son, Volume 1

George Gregory - 1808 - 352 pages
...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...
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes ..., Volume 14

John Dryden - 1808 - 482 pages
...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...
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