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2. "The Muses fair, these peaceful shades among,   With skillful fingers sweep the trembling strings." --Lloyd.

3. "Where Echo walks steep hills among,   List'ning to the shepherd's song." --J. Warton, U. Poems, p. 33.

XL. They have occasionally employed certain prepositions for which, perhaps, it would not be easy to cite prosaic authority; as, adown, aloft, aloof, anear, aneath, askant, aslant, aslope, atween, atwixt, besouth, traverse, thorough, sans. (See Obs. 10th, and others, at p. 441.)

XLI. They oftener employ INTERJECTIONS than do prose writers; as,

"O let me gaze!--Of gazing there's no end.   O let me think!--Thought too is wilder'd here." --Young.

XLII. They oftener employ ANTIQUATED WORDS and modes of expression; as,

1. "Withouten that, would come an heavier bale." --Thomson.

2. "He was, to weet, a little roguish page,   Save sleep and play, who minded nought at all." --Id.

3. "Not one eftsoons in view was to be found." --Id.

4. "To number up the thousands dwelling here,   An useless were, and eke an endless task." --Id.

5. "Of clerks good plenty here you mote espy." --Id.

6. "But these I passen by with nameless numbers moe." --Id.

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