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 338 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1758.

in heav'n or earth, or under earth in hell

This one, this ca^y charge of all the trees, &c. Sometimes nearly (o, as

To their defence who hold it, here perhaps

PrC^fcrib'd, no bars of hell, nC.r ail the chains

among the grSvcs, the fountains and the flowers

My only Son, and on my holy hill

Re-enter heav'n, or elfe in fome mild zone

His ung'jr, and plrhaps thus far rv:m6v'd

The dark, unbottom'd Infinite abyfs.

Outlhone th- wealth of ormus, and of Ind. From thefe laft inftances, where the fyllables not marked are by de- rivation, nature, or pofition, long, yet in the found and meafure of the verfe are fhort, I obferve, that the quantity of Englifh fylUoies is not meafured by the rules of Latin and Greek Profody, but by the tone of the voice, or accent, which generally rifcs at every fecond fyllable, and there- fore 1 call long ; the intermedirite fyllables, over which we haften to come at it, I call y>6</r/, whatever their quantity may be with refpedl to confo- nants, vowels, or diphthongs ; thus.

While fmooth adonis from his native rock, is a very mufical Englifli Iambic, though four out of thefive fliort fyllables are naturally long ; it-kile and ti've by the final e, and nis and his long by pofition: Indeed an Englilh Iambic may be juft meafure, and yet have never a fyllable in it (hort, according to the rules of Profody, as,

Wirh floods and whlrlw!nds of tempeftiious fire. And the profodeal Ihort fyllables may become long in the Englllh jReafure, as.

Quiet tho fid B. ii.

By pray'r th' ofi^ended de'ty t'appeafe i r.

L.:'meat not eve, bat pa.ticn:ly 'refign li.

Oar fecond adam In the wlldernefs il.

II. Of the JyllabU hyper cataUSlica, or redundant Jyllable.

A redundant fyllable is often added at the end of an Iambic with grace in blank \tr{Q^ as,

of heav'n rvcelv^d us fallTnpj, and the thunder.

In rhyme it grows ofFenfive, or burlefque, as it creates a double jingle.

Perhaps many Alexandrines may be belt accounted for from fuch re- dundant fyllables. [See § VI. of very (hor: fyllables.]

III. Of the Trochee.

The mofl common and mufical variation of this meafure is by fubfli- tuling a Trochee irrtead of an iambic.

imo loco Myrtical dance, which yondi-'r Harry fphere 5.

Ceafe i to wandOr where thi; mufcs haunt 3.

Nor