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Show F G L s oy Ti G 1T E The verfe of twelve fyllables, called ‘ an Alewandrine, is now only ufed t diverfify heroick lines o The varying verfe, the full-refounding line Pope The long majeftic march, and energy divine *Tis Heav'n itfelf that points out an hreafrer And intimates eternity to man - Woaller was {fmooth, but Dryden taught to joi gy 'Tls the Divinity that ftirs avithin na So in that of eight fyllables They neither added nor confounded They neither wanted nor abounded The paufe in the Alexandrine muft be at the fixth {yllable ;,Eaie Ioa The verfe of fourteen fyllables is now broken into a foft lyrick meafure o e verfes confifting alternately of eight fyllables an mfa; i ‘ng."' "lfl That day, for come it will, that da Devote a wreath to thee Beneath this tomb an infant lie To earth whofe body lent Hereafter fhall more glorious rife But not more innocent When the Archangel's trump fhall blow And fouls to bodies join ‘What crowds fhall with their lives belo Ands mountainous billows affright Nor power nor wealth can avail us May I gbvern my paffions with Zbfolute fwiy And grow wifer and bétter as life wears awdye Wefleg I think not of I'ris, nor I'ris of mé Dt. Pope Dryden Thefe meafuges are varied by many combinations, and fometimes by doubl endings, cither with or without rhyme as the heroick meafare To thefe meafures, and their laws, may be reduced every fpecies of Englif verfe Our verfification admits of few licences, except a fynalwpha or elifion of ¢ in #he before a vowel, as zb" eternal; and mor rarely of o in to, as # accept 5 an In this meafure a fyllable is often retrenched from the firft foot, a Dr. Pope Dibgenes farly and protd When préfent we léve, and when Zbfent agrée Ballad But fkilful induftry fteers right We have another meafure very quick and lively, and therefore much ufe in fongs, which may be called the anapeflick, in which the accent refts upo every third fyllable a Gay All on a rock reclin'd In the anapeftick When terrible tempefts affail us Had been as fhort as thine Clover A damfel lay deploring Leawis te Pope Shall I lament to fee 8y e Hatft atchiev'd with fix alone In that of fix >Fyras when the feas were roaring With hollow blafts of wind all {hall praife, and ev'ry la o Prior In that of feven For refiftance I could fear none But with twenty fhips had done What thou, brave and happy Vernon Fenton Whe ‘Lk fix She to receive thy radiant name Secle€ts a whiter fpace §dn'. Addifor fhort vowel coalefc int on a fynerefis {yllable by which tw as gueffion, Jpecial 5 o a word is contrated by the expulfion of a fhort vowel before liquid, as aw'rice, temp'rance Thus have T colle@ed rules and examples, by which the Englith languag may be learned, if the reader bBe already acquainted with grammatical terms To have written or taught by a mafter to thofe that are more ignorant grammar for fuch as are not yet initiated in the fchools, would. have been tedious, and perhaps at laft ineffedtual O ate hbig Uf:' ot 41 KXDVERTISE |