...Wit With the same spirit that its author writ : Survey the WHOLE, nor seeks slight faults to find 235 Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind ; Nor...neither ebb, nor flow, Correctly cold and regularly low, 240 That shunning faults, one quiet tenor keep; We cannot blame indeed — but we may sleep. In Wit,...

...Wit With the same spirit that its author writ; Survey the WHOLE, nor seek slight faults to find 235 Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind; Nor...neither ebb nor flow, Correctly cold, and regularly low, 240 That, shunning faults, one quiet tenour keep, We cannot blame indeed — but we may sleep. In wit,...

...rapture warms the mind; Nor lose, for that malignant dull delight, The generous pleasure to be charmed with wit. But in such lays as neither ebb, nor flow,...and regularly low, That shunning faults, one quiet tenor keep; • We cannot blame indeed but we may sleep. In wit, as nature, what affects our hearts...

...Homer nods but we that dream. Horat. dap 359. quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus. Pope v. 239—242. But in such lays as neither ebb nor flow, Correctly...and regularly low, That, shunning faults, one quiet tenor keep, We cannot blame indeed, but we may sleep. Boileau ap ch. I, 71—74. Un stile trop egal...

...in which he repeatedly borrows from the rhetorical treatises of Cicero and Quintilian, writes of ' Such lays as neither ebb nor flow, Correctly cold,...and regularly low, That shunning faults, one quiet tcnour keep' (1. 241). nihil adferens, bringing with him (bearing on his stream) nothing besides an...