...rhymift fmgs, With paufes, cadence, and well-vowell'd words, And all the gracca a good car afroidj, Mads rhyme an art Our comedy indeed is generally written...profe;. but through the idlenefs or ill tafte of our wrisors, rather than from any other juft caufe. For, though rhyme be not neceflary, or rather would...

...reviving from the trance Of Vandal, Goth, and monkish ignorance, With pauses, cadence, and well-vowelled words, And all the graces a good ear affords, Made rhyme an art; and Dante's polished page 20 Restored a silver, not a golden age. Then Petrarch followed, and in him...

...a good deal more than mere dexleritv and ease— culture and the inspiring aid of books, " Pauses, cadence, and well-vowell'd words, And all the graces a good ear affords." * Lord Roscommon. + Ben Jonson t Sclden's Table-Talk. For words are in poetry what colors are in painting,...