...Dryd-M, dans un hommage ému rendu à sa mémoire, lui reproche seulement la rudesse du vers «... thé harsh cadence of a rugged line, A noble error and but seldom made, When poets are by too much force betrayed. » 2. Pour Pope [Spence's Anecdotes, op. cit., p. 411 Rochester tient le milieu entre Oldham...

...arrive. Thus Nisus fell upon the slippery place, Whilst his young friend performed and won the race. O early ripe ! to thy abundant store What could advancing...tongue. But satire needs not those, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line, A noble error, and but seldom made, When poets are by too...

...arrive. Thus Nisus fell upon the slippery place, Whilst his young friend performed and won the race. O early ripe ! to thy abundant store What could advancing...tongue. But satire needs not those, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line, A noble error, and but seldom made, When poets are by too...

...and even this he was ready himself to overrule. Had Oldham lived longer, Dryden wrote, advancing age 'might (what Nature never gives the young) Have taught...tongue ; But satire needs not those, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line." To us there is much besides defects of form to overlook...

...more inviting subject. His metre and rhyme frequently stand in need of Dryden's generous apology : ' O early ripe ! to thy abundant store What could advancing...It might, what Nature never gives the young, Have tanght the smoothness of thy native tongue. But satire needs not these, and wit will shine Through...

...and even this he was ready himself to overrule. Had Oldham lived longer, Dryden wrote, advancing age 'might (what Nature never gives the young) Have taught...tongue ; But satire needs not those, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.' To us there is much besides defects of form to overlook...

...arrive. thus Nisus fell upon the slippery place, whilst his young friend performed and won the race. о early ripe ! to thy abundant store what could advancing...tongue. but satire needs not those, and wit will shine through the harsh cadence of a rugged line. a noble error and but seldom made, when poets are by too...

...have taught the numbers of thy native tongue. but satire needs not those, and wit will shine through the harsh cadence of a rugged line. a noble error...but seldom made, when poets are by too much force betrayed. thy generous fruits, though gathered ere their prime, still showed a quickness ; and maturing...

...arrive. Thus Nisus fell upon the slippery place, While his young friend performed and won the race. O early ripe! to thy abundant store What could advancing...tongue But satire needs not those, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line. A noble error, and but seldom made, When poets are by too...

...and even this he was ready himself to overrule. Had Oldham lived longer, Dryden wrote, advancing age 'might (what Nature never gives the young) Have taught...tongue ; But satire needs not those, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.' To us there is much besides defects of form to overlook...