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Page 21
I will end with a Word or two concerning the different Measure of
the Verse, in which the following Poem is written; and which is
apt to disgust Readers, not well grounded in Poetry, because it
requires a fuller Degree of Attention than the Couplet, and, as
Mr. Cowley has said of it,
... Will no unskilful Touch endure,
But flings Writer and Reader too, that sits not sure.
I have, in another Place, endeavoured by Arguments to demonstrate
the Preference of this Kind of Verse to any other; I will here
observe only, from my Experience of other Writers, that it wins,
insinuates, and grows insensibly upon the Relish of a Reader,
till the little seeming Harshness, which is supposed to be in it,
softens gradually away, and leaves a vigorous Impression behind
it, of mixed Majesty and Sweetness.
A Man, who is just beginning to try his Ear in Pindaric, may be
compared to a new Scater; He totters strangely at first, and
staggers backward and forward; Every Stick, or frozen Stone in
his Way, is a Rub that he falls at. But when many repeated Trials
have embolden'd him to strike out, and taught the true Poize of
Motion, he throws forward his Body with a dextrous Velocity, and
becoming ravish'd with the masterly Sweep of his Windings, knows
no Pleasure greater, than to feel himself fly through that
well-measured Maziness, which he first attempted with Perplexity.
But I will detain you no longer, and hasten now to the Poem,
which has given me this pleasing Opportunity of telling you how
much I am,
Sir,
Your Most Humble
and Obedient Servant,
A. HILL
_THE AUGUSTAN REPRINT SOCIETY_
ANNOUNCES ITS
Publications for the Third Year(1948-1949)
_At least two_ items will be printed from each of the
_three_ following groups:
Series IV: Men, Manners, and Critics
Sir John Falstaff (pseud.), _The Theatre _(1720).
Aaron Hill, Preface to _The Creation; _and Thomas
Brereton, Preface to _Esther._
Ned Ward, Selected Tracts.
Series V: Drama
Edward Moore, _The Gamester _(1753).
Nevil Payne, _Fatal Jealousy _(1673).
Mrs. Centlivre, _The Busie Body _(1709).
Charles Macklin, _Man of the World _(1781).
Series VI: Poetry and Language
John Oldmixon, _Reflections on Dr. Swift's Letter to
Harley _(1712); and
Arthur Mainwaring, _The British Academy _(1712).
Pierre Nicole, _De Epigrammate._
Andre Dacier, Essay on Lyric Poetry.
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