But most by Numbers judge a Poet's Song,854Please respect copyright.PENANAKwHjCkx5z7
And smooth or rough, with them, is right or wrong;854Please respect copyright.PENANAOGtSNC8jJY
In the bright Muse tho' thousand Charms conspire,854Please respect copyright.PENANA7o5fHsKSbf
Her Voice is all these tuneful Fools admire,854Please respect copyright.PENANA3Sp18NOKiN
Who haunt Parnassus but to please their Ear,854Please respect copyright.PENANAhJHyFar7rz
Not mend their Minds; as some to Church repair,854Please respect copyright.PENANAKVc7cvKdgV
Not for the Doctrine, but the Musick there.854Please respect copyright.PENANAwryhwEC4uU
These Equal Syllables alone require,854Please respect copyright.PENANALDm6c6uC7n
Tho' oft the Ear the open Vowels tire,854Please respect copyright.PENANAvpCSIW6rhA
While Expletives their feeble Aid do join,854Please respect copyright.PENANAwNPxfzZmTV
And ten low Words oft creep in one dull Line,854Please respect copyright.PENANAUP47XCoWoE
While they ring round the same unvary'd Chimes,854Please respect copyright.PENANApjh3EHwVtr
With sure Returns of still expected Rhymes.854Please respect copyright.PENANAFYMbB3wLhn
Where-e'er you find the cooling Western Breeze,854Please respect copyright.PENANAeKYtdRyybW
In the next Line, it whispers thro' the Trees;854Please respect copyright.PENANAmbCW12L4br
If Chrystal Streams with pleasing Murmurs creep,854Please respect copyright.PENANArI4EfmY2ke
The Reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with Sleep.854Please respect copyright.PENANAqVtfBFBKAw
Then, at the last, and only Couplet fraught854Please respect copyright.PENANAQgd9qxcOTJ
With some unmeaning Thing they call a Thought,854Please respect copyright.PENANAhsjmCgm2Rt
A needless Alexandrine ends the Song,854Please respect copyright.PENANAgSzkiDHdxL
That like a wounded Snake, drags its slow length along.854Please respect copyright.PENANApJcZ5FrrQY
Leave such to tune their own dull Rhimes, and know854Please respect copyright.PENANAtlM0PjfMws
What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow;854Please respect copyright.PENANACsrg5aBrlh
And praise the Easie Vigor of a Line,854Please respect copyright.PENANAepAXABTKAx
Where Denham's Strength, and Waller's Sweetness join.854Please respect copyright.PENANAokSaSxnRBj
True Ease in Writing comes from Art, not Chance,854Please respect copyright.PENANAx8p8jpuIz6
As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance,854Please respect copyright.PENANAz5zSNiS8e7
'Tis not enough no Harshness gives Offence,854Please respect copyright.PENANAtPxSJUcDuz
The Sound must seem an Eccho to the Sense.854Please respect copyright.PENANAK2VCMu7G9a
Soft is the Strain when Zephyr gently blows,854Please respect copyright.PENANA7pw6TYMMuk
And the smooth Stream in smoother Numbers flows;854Please respect copyright.PENANAatYJBcMZWm
But when loud Surges lash the sounding Shore,854Please respect copyright.PENANALetFiQchTr
The hoarse, rough Verse shou'd like the Torrent roar.854Please respect copyright.PENANAYZypDapYVt
When Ajax strives, some Rocks' vast Weight to throw,854Please respect copyright.PENANAwDGwkYJq2N
The Line too labours, and the Words move slow;854Please respect copyright.PENANAXmsuExV7As
Not so, when swift Camilla scours the Plain,854Please respect copyright.PENANAURPs1EyMEY
Flies o'er th'unbending Corn, and skims along the Main.854Please respect copyright.PENANAmhAF2knNHT
Hear how Timotheus' vary'd Lays surprize,854Please respect copyright.PENANA0N1gniJ9DD
And bid Alternate Passions fall and rise!854Please respect copyright.PENANAqweMrpR755
While, at each Change, the Son of Lybian Jove854Please respect copyright.PENANAROWKbi6OSz
Now burns with Glory, and then melts with Love;854Please respect copyright.PENANAxU9oBMtvkk
Now his fierce Eyes with sparkling Fury glow;854Please respect copyright.PENANANGjTZ0Hp58
Now Sighs steal out, and Tears begin to flow:854Please respect copyright.PENANAqJdWj0fvg0
Persians and Greeks like Turns of Nature found,854Please respect copyright.PENANAcBn1oEWx4O
And the World's Victor stood subdu'd by Sound!854Please respect copyright.PENANAq4X1J6keMm
The Pow'rs of Musick all our Hearts allow;854Please respect copyright.PENANAgyZUjkI1Td
And what Timotheus was, is Dryden now.
Avoid Extreams; and shun the Fault of such,854Please respect copyright.PENANAUNN9aQ1DHp
Who still are pleas'd too little, or too much.854Please respect copyright.PENANAU09ny8dDwL
At ev'ry Trifle scorn to take Offence,854Please respect copyright.PENANAbA0kB9h2YD
That always shows Great Pride, or Little Sense;854Please respect copyright.PENANA5hfyu0Viju
Those Heads as Stomachs are not sure the best854Please respect copyright.PENANAduTiQcKGEP
Which nauseate all, and nothing can digest.854Please respect copyright.PENANAmdr16CIGq7
Yet let not each gay Turn thy Rapture move,854Please respect copyright.PENANAXxHB9Q9s9O
For Fools Admire, but Men of Sense Approve;854Please respect copyright.PENANAQ2LW8tLglt
As things seem large which we thro' Mists descry,854Please respect copyright.PENANAHnfJsV89ia
Dulness is ever apt to Magnify.