Part 12 (1/2)

16 Polysyllables, or words of more than three syllables, follow the accent of the words fro, continency, incontinently, commendable, communicableness We should therefore say disputable, indisputable; rather than disputable, indisputable; and advertisement, rather than advertisement

17 Words in ion have the accent upon the antepenult, as salvation, perturbation, concoction; words in atour or ator on the penult, as dedicator

18 Words ending in le commonly have the accent on the first syllable, as amicable, unless the second syllable have a vowel before two consonants, as co in ous have the accents on the antepenult, as uxorious, voluptuous

20 Words ending in ty have their accent on the antepenult, as pusillanimity, activity

These rules are not advanced as complete or infallible, but proposed as useful Ale has its exceptions; and in English, as in other tongues, much must be learned by exaiven that have escaped e to certain laws

The feet of our verses are either iambick, as aloft, create; or trochaick, as holy, lofty

Our iambick measure coood, s as rare, To call you's lost; For all the cost Words can bestow, So poorly show Upon your praise, That all the ways Sense hath, come short Drayton

With ravish'd ears The monarch hears Dryden

Of six,

This while we are abroad, Shall we not touch our lyre?

Shall we not sing an ode?

Or shall that holy fire, In us that strongly glow'd, In this cold air expire?

Though in the utst the mountains bleak, Expos'd to sleet and rain, No sport our hours shall break, To exercise our vein

What though bright Phbus' beah the princely Thames With beauteous nymphs abound, And by old Camber's strealide in silver swathes, And what of allale and noble chear, T' asswage breem winters scathes

In places far or near, Or famous, or obscure, Where wholsom is the air, Or where the most impure, All times, and every where, The ht, which is the usual e Find out the peaceful herown, and htly spell Of ev'ry star the sky doth shew, And ev'ry herb that sips the dewMilton

Of ten, which is the coick poetry,

Full in the midst of this created space, Betwixt heav'n, earth, and skies, there stands a place Confining on all three; with triple bound; Whence all things, though re sound

The palace of loud Fame, her seat of pow'r, Plac'd on the su and wide Receive of fresh reports a flowing tide

A thousand crannies in the walls are ate nor bars exclude the busy trade

Tis built of brass, the better to diffuse The spreading sounds, and multiply the news; Where echoes in repeated echoes play: A ht and day

Nor silence is within, nor voice express, But a deaf noise of sounds that never cease; Confus'd and chiding, like the hollow roar Of tides, receding from th' insulted shore; Or like the broken thunder heard fro war

The courts are fill'd with a tu in: A thorough-fare of nehere sole truth with lies: The troubled air with eer to repeat Dryden

In all these measures the accents are to be placed on even syllables; and every line considered by itself is more harmonious, as this rule is more strictly observed The variations necessary to pleasure belong to the art of poetry, not the rules of grammar