...lie 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 tnajestick march, and energy divine. Some improvements had been already made in English numbers; but...

...refinements less a foe, Wit grew polite, and numbers learn 'd to flow. Waller was smooth ; but Drydeu taught to join The varying verse, the full resounding line, The long majestic march, and energy divine : Though etill some traces of our rustic vein And splayfoot verse n maln 41, and will remain. Late,...

...o'er our arms ; Britain to soft refinements less a foe, Wit grew polite, and numbers leam'd to flow. Waller was smooth ; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full resounding line, The long majestie mareh, and energy divine ; Though still some traees of our rustie vein And splayfoot verse...

...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;...except that the exact prosodist will find the line of sw\/Y«es3by onetime longer than that of tardiness. Beauties of this kind are commonly fancied ; and,...

...o'er our arms ; 'iritain to soft refinements less a foe, Wit grew polite, and numbers learn'd to flow. to undertake; but from the materials : Though still some traces of our rustic vein And splayfoot verse remain'd, and will remain. I.ate,...

...blank verse, so Dryden in the heroic rhymed measure, is without a competitor or even an approximator. " Waller was smooth, but Dryden taught to join The varying...line, The long majestic march, and energy divine." The Translations of Howe, Pitt, Pope, and Mickle, have enriched our language with the noblest monuments...

...soft refinements less a foe, Wit grew polite, and numbers learn'd to flow. Wilier was smooth ; bot nd bore aloft his «rms distilling blood. He smites...steeds ; the rapid chariot fli« ; The sudden clouds : Though still some traces of our rustic vein And splayfoot verse remain'd, and will remain. Late,...

...the better cause, is perhaps superior in strength. But in the ' Jure Divino,' we look in vain for ' The varying verse, the full resounding line, The long majestic march, and energy divine.' " De Foe intended to follow the subject in a second volume, and had made some progress in it ; but...

...of the better came, is perhaps superior in strength. But in the ' Jure Divino,' we look in vain for 'The varying verse, the full resounding line, The long majestic march, and energy divine.' " De Foe intended to follow the subject in a second volume, and had made some progress in it ; but...

...heroic rhymed measure, is without a competitor or even an approximator. " Waller was smooth, but Drydeu taught to join The varying verse, the full resounding line, The long majestic inarch, and energy divine." The Translations of Rowe, Pitt, Pope, and Mickle, have enriched our language...