Again,
"Bear on your Wings and in your Notes his Praise.
Can it be said that ten dull Words creep on dully in any one of these Lines? But Examples may likewise be given in rhym'd Verse, of the Harmony of Monosyllables. Harmony consists in mixing rough and smooth, soft and harsh Sounds. What Words can be rougher than such as these, Rides, Rapt, Throws, Storms; or smoother than these, Wheel, Hush, Lull?
"Then mounted on his radiant Carr he rides,
And wheels along the level of the Tides.
Pit's 1st Æneid.
How rough is the first Line, how soft the latter! As soft as the Original, which is a Masterpiece.
"Rapt by his Steeds he flies in open Day,
Throws up the Reins, and skims the watry Way.
"Has given to thee great Æolus to raise