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" They can produce nothing so courtly writ, or which expresses so much the conversation of a gentleman, as Sir John Suckling; nothing so even, sweet, and flowing, as Mr. Waller; nothing so majestic, so correct, as Sir John Denham; nothing so elevated, so... "
Essays of John Dryden: Introduction. List of Dryden's works. Epistle ... - Page 34
by John Dryden - 1900
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An Essay on Criticism

Alexander Pope, John Oldmixon, Alfred Slater West - 2016 - 196 pages
...hard for them to show us one such amongst them, as we have many now living, or who lately were so : they can produce nothing so courtly writ, or which...elevated, so copious, and full of spirit, as Mr Cowley." Waller's sweetness. Edmund Waller (1605 — 1687) was a man of large means and high social position....
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