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 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 591 pages
...granted, rhyme has all the advantages of prose, besides its own. But the excellence and dignity of it Were never fully known, till Mr. Waller taught it; he first made writing easily an art ; first shewed us to conclude the sense, most commonly in distichs; which in the verse of those before... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pages
...granted, rhyme has all the advantages of prose, besides its own. But the excellence and dignity of it were never fully known, till Mr. Waller taught it; he first made writing easily an art ; first shewed us to conclude the sense, most commonly in distichs; which in the verse of those before... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 486 pages
...granted, rhyme has all the advantages of prose, besides its own. But the excellence and dignity of it were never fully known till Mr Waller taught it ; he first made writing easily an art ; first shewed us to conclude the sense, most commonly in distichs, which, in the verse of those before... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 336 pages
...polished " — and as " understanding our tongue the best of any man in England." Even Dry^en sa)'s, " the excellence and dignity of rhyme were never fully known till Mr. Waller taught it" — and one of his biographers, after quoting the panegyries of some of his contemporaries, adds, with... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 390 pages
...polished "—and as " understanding our tongue the best of any man in England." Even Drydeu says, " the excellence and dignity of rhyme were never fully known till Mr. Waller taught it" — and one of his biographers, after quoting the panegyries of some of his contemporaries, adds, with... | |
 | Eliphalet L. Rice - American literature - 1846 - 432 pages
...Denham and Waller, says Prior, improved our versification, and Dryden perfected it : and Dryden says, the excellence and dignity of rhyme were never fully known till Mr. Waller taught it in lyric, and Sir John Denham in epic poesy. The opinion that Waller and Denham were the "fathers of... | |
 | Mrs. S. C. Hall - England - 1850 - 324 pages
...polished ; ' and, ' as understanding our tongue the best of any man in England. 'Even Dryden says, 'The excellence and dignity of rhyme were never fully known till Mr. Waller taught ; ' and one of his biographers, after quoting the panegyrics of some of his contemporaries, adds, with... | |
 | Mrs. S. C. Hall - England - 1854 - 608 pages
...polished ; ' and, ' as understanding our tongue the best of any man in England.' Even Dryden says, ' The excellence and dignity of rhyme were never fully known till Mr. Waller taught ; ' and one of his biographers, after quoting the panegyrics of some of his contemporaries, adds, with... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1868 - 690 pages
...Duchess of Monmouth.) 226 Dry den. [July, of prose besides its own. But the excellence and dignity of it were never fully known till Mr. Waller taught it : he first made writing easily an art ; first showed us to conclude the sense, most commonly in distiches, which in the verse before him... | |
 | JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. A.M. - 1870 - 604 pages
...Denham. " Rhyme has all the advantages of prose besides its own. But the excellence and dignity of it were never fully known till Mr. Waller taught it : he first made writing easily an art ; first showed us to conclude the sense, most commonly in distiches, which in the verse before him... | |
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