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Rh Quære, What are the glittering turrets of a man's head?

Upon the shore; as frequent as the sand, To meet the prince, the glad Dimetians stand.

Quære, Where these Dimetians stood? and of what size they were? add also to the jargon such as the following:

Destruction's empire shall no longer last, And desolation lie for ever waste. Here Niobe, sad mother, makes her moan, And seems converted to a stone in stone.

But for variegation, nothing is more useful than

where a word, like the tongue of a jack-daw, speaks twice as much by being split: as this of Mr. Dennis.

Bullets, that wound, like Parthians as they fly :

or this excellent one of Mr. Welsted,

Behold the virgin lye Naked, and only cover'd by the sky.

To which thou may'st add,

To see her beauties no man needs to stoop, She has the whole horizon for her hoop.

whereby contraries and oppositions are balanced in such a way, as to cause a reader to remain suspended between them, to his exceeding delight and recreation. Such are these on a lady, who made herself . XVII.