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The not observing this rule is that which the world has blamed in our satyrist, Cleveland: to express a thing hard and unnaturally, is his new way of elocution. 'Tis true, no poet but may sometimes use a catachresis: Virgil does it--

Mistaque ridenti colocasia fundet acantho--""

in his eclogue of Pollio; and in his seventh

mirantur et undae,
----Miratur nemus insuetum fulgentia longe
?Scuta virum fluvio pictasque innare carinas
.

And Ovid once so modestly, that he asks leave to do it:

----quern, si verbo audacia detur,
Hand metuam summi dixisse Palatia cali.

calling the court of Jupiter by the name of Augustus his palace; though in another place he is more bold, where he says,--et longas visent Capitolia pampas. But to do this always, and never be able to write a line without it, though it may be admired by some few pedants, will not pass upon those who know that wit is best conveyed to us in the most easy language; and is most to be admired when a great thought comes dressed in words so commonly received, that it is understood by the meanest apprehensions, as the best meat is the most easily digested: but we cannot read a verse of Cleveland's without making a face at it, as if every word were a pill to swallow: he gives us many times a hard nut to break our teeth, without a kernel for our pains. So that there is this difference betwixt his Satires and doctor Donne's; that the one gives us deep thoughts in common language, though rough cadence; the other gives us common thoughts in abstruse words: 'tis true, in some places his wit is independent of his words, as in that of the rebel Scot:

Had Cain been Scot, God would have chang'd his doom;
Not forc'd him wander, but confin'd him home.

",2009-09-14 19:49:34 UTC,"""But to do this always, and never be able to write a line without it, though it may be admired by some few pedants, will not pass upon those who know that wit is best conveyed to us in the most easy language; and is most to be admired when a great thought comes dressed in words so commonly received, that it is understood by the meanest apprehensions, as the best meat is the most easily digested.""",2009-02-14 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,Dress,I've included twice: Dress and Meat,Reading,17246,6481