"Five hours, and who could do it less in?
By haughty Celia spent in dressing."
Will any one say it was through ignorance that he did not sound the g in dressing? Pope, in his "Eloisa to Abelard," which is sweetness to excess, concludes with:
"He best can paint 'em who has felt 'em most."
Why this is a downright vulgarism compared to Swift's open and undisguised doggerel:
"Libertas et natale solum:
Fine words! I wonder where you stole 'em."
Leaving Swift out of the question, Irish poets are much more careful about their rhymes than the English; because they know that what would be excused or overlooked in them, would be deemed ignorance on their own parts. I venture to assert, that there are more false rhymes in Pope's Iliad alone than in all the poems of Goldsmith and Moore together; though I must again observe that those of Pope were all intentional.
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