Part 13 (1/1)

Diogenes surly and proud Dr Pope

When present, we love, and when absent agree, I think not of iris, nor iris of me Dryden

These measures are varied by s, either with or without rhyme, as in the heroick measure

'Tis the divinity that stirs within us, 'Tis heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man Addison

So in that of eight syllables,

They neither added nor confounded, They neither wanted nor abounded Prior

In that of seven,

For resistance I could fear none, But with twenty shi+ps had done, What thou, brave and happy Vernon, Hast atchiev'd with six alone Glover

In that of six,

'Then the seas were roaring, With hollow blasts of wind, A da, All on a rock reclin'd Gay

In the anapestick,

When terrible tempests assail us

And ht, Nor power nor wealth can avail us, But skilful industry steers right Ballad

To these lish verse

Our versification admits of few licences, except a synalpha, or elision of e in the before a vowel, as th' eternal; and more rarely of o in to, as t'

accept; and a synaresis, by which two short vowels coalesce into one syllable, as question, special; or a word is contracted by the expulsion of a short vowel before a liquid, as av'rice, temp'rance

Thus have I collected rules and exae raht by a rammar for such as are not yet initiated in the schools, would have been tedious, and perhaps at last ineffectual