...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...

...years the praise of Camilla's lightness of foot, he tried another experiment upon sound and time, and produced this memorable triplet : Waller was smooth...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...

...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...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...

...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...

...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...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,...

...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 "..." 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...

...passage in his memory, when he composed the famous triplet descriptive of Drydeu's versification : Waller was smooth ; but Dryden taught to join The...line. The long majestic march, and energy divine. have gained for me. Let the French and Italians value themselves on their regularity ; strength and...