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Page 360
... kind is variable , being long or fhort , frequent or lefs frequent , as the fenfe requires . A pause of the fecond kind , is in no degree arbitrary ; its place being determined by the modulation . The laft fort again is in a measure ...
... kind is variable , being long or fhort , frequent or lefs frequent , as the fenfe requires . A pause of the fecond kind , is in no degree arbitrary ; its place being determined by the modulation . The laft fort again is in a measure ...
Page 385
... kind : Sōme in the fields of pūrest æther play , And bask and whiten in the blaze of day . It is unhappy in the conftruction of English verfe , that it excludes the bulk of polyfyllables , though the most founding words in our language ...
... kind : Sōme in the fields of pūrest æther play , And bask and whiten in the blaze of day . It is unhappy in the conftruction of English verfe , that it excludes the bulk of polyfyllables , though the most founding words in our language ...
Page 397
... kind ordain And curs'd with hearts | unknowing how to yield . The verb and adverb are precisely in the fame condition with the substantive and ad- jective . An adverb , which expresses a cer- tain modification of the action expressed by ...
... kind ordain And curs'd with hearts | unknowing how to yield . The verb and adverb are precisely in the fame condition with the substantive and ad- jective . An adverb , which expresses a cer- tain modification of the action expressed by ...
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