Johnson, who strongly approved of Dryden's performance, accepts it as natural that there should be other attempts at the translation of Virgil, "since the English ear has been accustomed to the Mellifluence of Pope's numbers, and the diction of poetry has become more splendid."
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos
Touched by the patina of time and mellowed through the Mellifluence of age, the war now makes an appeal dissimilar to that which caused readers two or three years ago to declare they were "fed up."
"O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921"
Various
Bailey of the Houston Post, is a symphony, a vast hunk of Mellifluence, an eternal melody of loveliness, a grand anthem of agglomerated and majestic beneficence.
"Watch Yourself Go By"
Al. G. Field