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 And splay-foot verse remain'd, and will remain. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. - 178 ページSamuel Johnson 著 - 1820全文表示 - この書籍について
| People - 1845 - 346 ページ
...defects, however, he had more music than Waller, more vigour than Denham, aud 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. COSMO THE ELDER. OSMO I. Grand Duke... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1846 - 320 ページ
...soft refinements less .1 foe, Wit grew polite, and numhers lonrn'd to flow. Waller was smooth ; hut 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 And splayfoot verse remain'd, and will remain Late, very... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1847 - 546 ページ
...characterized his great prototype in his imitation of the first Epistle of the second book of Horace ! " Waller was smooth, but Dryden taught to join The varying...line, The long majestic march and energy divine." Imitated in a still higher strain of poetry, but perhaps not with greater dignity and effect, by Gray... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 ページ
...265 Wit grew polite, and ' numbers learn'd to flow. Waller was smooth ; but Dryden taught to join i The varying verse, the full resounding line, The long majestic march, and energy divine. J Though still some traces of our '" rustic vein, 270 And splay-foot verse, remain'd, and will remain.... | |
| 1847 - 610 ページ
...along with bis version of Chaucer's Palamon and Arcite. Of what be has himself so well described as " The varying verse, the full resounding line, The long majestic march, and energy divine," of Dryden, his disciple has not caught much. Where the poetry of the one is an impetuous and foaming... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 ページ
...o'er our arms ; Britain to soft refinements less a foe, Wit grew polite, and numbers learn'd to flow. Waller was smooth* ; but Dryden taught to join The...line, The long majestic march, and energy divine. Though still some traces of our rustic vein, And splay-foot verse, remain'd, and will remain. Late,... | |
| T. R.. Barnes - 1964 - 340 ページ
...o'er our arms; Britain to soft refinements less a foe Wit grew polite, and numbers learn'd to flow. Waller was smooth; but Dryden taught to join"^ The...line, > The long majestic march, and energy divine. J Though still some traces of our rustic vein. And splay-foot verse remain'd, and will remain; Late,... | |
| Birmingham central literary assoc - 1881 - 468 ページ
...and given point as well as purpose to our English tongue : — " Waller was smooth, but Dryden sought to join The varying verse, the full resounding line, The long majestic march and energy divine." JW T A DIRGE. Now all grief and sorrow's o'er. Wrong nor pain can touch her more. Smilingly she lies... | |
| John Hollander - 1990 - 280 ページ
...himself, in the Epistle to Augustus, could not resist a bit of "representative versification" in this triplet: "Waller was smooth; but Dryden taught to...line, / The long majestic march, and energy divine." Dryden's word had been "majestic" to characterize the alexandrine and the alexandrine just quoted seems... | |
| Timothy J. Reiss - 1992 - 412 ページ
...o'er our Arms; Britain to soft refinement less a foe, Wit grew polite, and Numbers learned to flow. Waller was smooth; but Dryden taught to join The varying...line, The long majestic March, and Energy divine, Though still some traces of our rustic vein And splayfoot verse remained, and will remain. Late, very... | |
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