...a bursting laugh to raise, And yet even this may well deserve its praise ; Close be your language ; let your sense be clear. Nor with a weight of words fatigue the ear. From grave to jovial you must change with art. How play the critic's, now the poet's part; In raillery...

...line : The coke is scalded for all his long ladell. Again, As ^sop's dogs contending for the bone t. * Now change from grave to gay with ready art, Now play...Discreetly hide your strength, your vigour spare. FRANCIS. •t Dryden has turned the first line thus : " No writer has more religiously observed the...

...cleared of redundant words, so also of redundant members. As every word ought to present a new idea, ' " Concise your diction, let your sense be clear, " Nor with a weight of wordp, fatigue the ear. FRANCIS. so every member ought to contain a new thought. Opposed to this, stands...

...Sentences acquire more vigour and energy when thus retrenched; provided always, that we run not into * " Concise your diction, let your sense be clear, " Nor with a weight of words, fatigue the ear." FRANCIS the extreme of pruning so very close, as to give a hardness and dryness to style. For here,...

...that part of the sentence where they will make the fullest impression. Q, What is the fourth ? \ * " Concise your diction, let your sense be clear, Nor with a weight of words, fatigue the ear." HORACE A. Make the members of the sentence go on rising in their importance one above another. Q, What...

...bursting laugh to raise, And yet e'en this may well deserve its praise: Close be your language; Jet your sense be clear, Nor with a weight of words fatigue the ear. From grave to jovial you must change with art, Now play the critic's, now the poet's part; In raillery...

...those useless excrescences which are commonly found in a first draught. Here a severe eye should be " Concise your diction, let your sense be clear, Nor with a weight of words fatigue the ear." FRANCIS. employed ; and we shall always find our sentences acquire more vigour and energy when thus...

...gives, ' Est hrevitate opus, ut currat scntentia, ucu se Impediat vcrbis lassas oiieraiitibus aures.' ' Concise your diction, let your sense be clear, Nor with a weight of words fatigue the ear.' In his Works, we may observe his words are well chosen, being pure, proper to his subject, and precise...

...* He, however, employed much leisure time whilst at college in the study of anatomy and medicine. ' Concise your diction, let your sense be clear, Nor with a weight of words fatigue the ear.' In all his writings his words are well chosen, pure, proper to his subject, and precise in their meaning....

...cleared of redundant words, so also of redundant members. As every word ought to present a new idea, * " Concise your diction, let your sense be clear, " Nor with a weight of words, fatigue the tar.'' FIU.KCIS so every member ought to contain a new thought. Opposed to this, stands the fault we...