...th' adventure went his half, Though writers, for more stately tone, Do call him Ralpho, 'tis all one; And when we can, with metre safe, We'll call him so;...rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, theysteer their courses:} An equal stock of wit and valour He had laid in, by birth a tailor. The mighty...

...wou'd not hang an arse. A Squire he had whose name was Ralph, That in th' adventure went his half, Tho' writers, for more stately tone, Do call him Ralpho,...safe, We'll call him so; if not, plain Ralph ; (For rbyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their course;) An equal stock of...

...other instance. Many have laughed at the queerness of the comparison in these lines, • For rhime the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses f; who never dreamt that there was any person or'party, practice or opinion, derided in them. But as...

...ridiculing it ; and has acknowledged, that in rhyming couplets, one verse is made for the other ; and that " Rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses." If the merit of rhyme be estimated by its parentage, little can be said in its favour. It can boast...

..."bosom's screen.'" To be sure, the precedi ng line ended with " between," and Butler lias told that Rhime the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses. Sometimes, however, they steer but badly, as when our author wrote> " It was a lodge of ample size,...

...That in th' adventure went his half : Though writers, for more stately tone, Do call him RAI.PHO ; 'tis all one ; 460 And when we can with metre safe, We'll call him so; if not, plain RAI.PH : (For rhyme the rndder is of verses, With which like ships they steer their courses.) An equal...

...the' adventnre went his half, Thongh writers, for more stately tone, Do call him Ralpho, 'tis all one; And when we can, with metre safe, We'll call him so ; if not, plain Raph ; (For rhyme the rndder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their conrses) An eqnal...

...stately tone, Do call him Hal phi j, 'tis all one ; A»d when we can, with metre safe, Well call him to ; if not, plain Ralph ; (for rhyme the rudder is of...steer their courses.) An equal stock of wit and valour He had laid m, by birth a tailor. Tt« mighty Tynan queen, that gain'd "ith subtle shreds a tract of...

...adventnre went his half: Thongh writers, fer more stately tone, Do call him Ralpho ; 'lis all one; 46o And when we can with metre safe, , We'll call him so; if not plain Ralph: (For rhyme the rndder is of verses, V.'itiL whii h like ships they steer their conrses.) An i-qu d stock of wit and...

...depart from the meaning of the original. For Butler's remark is as true as it is ludicrous, that ** Rhyme the rudder is of verses, " With which, like ships, they steer their courses." Accordingly, in numberless instances, we may observe in Pope a violation of Homer's sense, of which...