Waller Was Smooth; But Dryden Taught To Join The Varying Verse, The Full Resounding Line, The Long Majestic March, And Energy Divine.

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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.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace, Epistle i, Book ii, Line 267

Who says in verse what others say in prose.
E'en copious Dryden wanted or forgot The last and greatest art,--the art to blot.
Above all Greek, above all Roman fame.
Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.
Praise undeserv'd is scandal in disguise.
The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease.
The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
Words that wise Bacon or brave Raleigh spoke.
He 's armed without that 's innocent within.

Waller Was Smooth; But Dryden Taught To Join The Varying Verse, The Full Resounding Line, The Long Majestic March, And Energy Divine.

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