...them is much better than what I 30 have performed on any other. As I have endeavoured to adorn my poem with noble thoughts, so much more to express those thoughts with elocution." that the English language affords. Of this stanza he mentions the encumbrances, increased as they were...

...; I must crave leave to tell you, that as I have endeavoured to adorn it with noble thoughts, so 20 much more to express those thoughts with elocution....is, or ought to be, of wit ; and wit in the poet, or Wit writing, (if you will give me leave to use a school-distinction), is no other than the faculty...

...it with noble thoughts, so 20 much more to express those thoughts with elocution. The composition 6f all poems is, or ought to be, of wit; and wit in the poet, or Wit writing, (if you will give me leave to use a school-distinction), is no other than the faculty...

...cut-and-dried poetic theory. The following sentences on the nature 'of poetry and wit are typical ; " The composition of all poems is, or ought to be, of wit ; and wit in the poet, or tmt writing, . . . is no other than the faculty of imagination in the writer, which, like a nimble...

...digression to a farther account of my poem ; I must crave leave to tell you, that as I have endeavor 'd to adorn it with noble thoughts, so much more to express...is, or ought to be, of wit ; and wit in the poet, or wit writing (if you will give roe leave to use a school-distinction) is no other than the faculty of...

...tell yon, that as I have endeavor'd to adorn it with noble thoughts, so much more to express thoie deo. Formy part, I am lost in the admiration of it...contemn the world when I think on it, and myself wh wit writing (if you will give me leave to use a school-distinction) is no other than the faculty of...

...cut-and-dried poetic theory. The following sentences on the nature of poetry and wit are typical ; " The composition of all poems is, or ought to be, of wit ; and wit in the poet, or wit loriiing, . . , is no other than the faculty of imagination in the writer, which, like a nimble...

...digression to a farther account of my poem ; I must crave leave to tell yon, that as I have endeavor 'd to adorn it with noble thoughts, so much more to express those thoughts with elocution. The composi"^" tion of all poems is, or ought to be, of wit ; and wit in the poet, or wit writing (if you...

...elocution. The composition of all poems is, or ought to be, of wit ; and wit in the poet, or wit writing (if you will give me leave to use a school-distinction) is no other I than the faculty of imagination in the writer, which, like a nimble spaniel, beats over and ranges...

...Dryden's verse, a surcharge which it is always difficult for lyric verse to carry gracefully — " The composition of all poems is, or ought to be, of wit ; and wit in the poet, or Wit writing (if you will give me leave to use a school-distinction) is no other than the faculty of...