The British Essayists With Prefaces Historical And Biographical volume 20
The British Essayists With Prefaces Historical And Biographical volume 20
Alexander Chalmers
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In treating on the versifii:ation of Milton, I am de^ sirous to be generally understood, and shall, therefore, studiously decline the dialect of grammarians ; though, indeed, it is always difficult, and sometimes scarcely ^70 THE RAMBLER. U" 8^. possible, to deliver the precepts of an art, without the terms by which the peculiar ideas of that art are ex- pressed, and which had not been invented, but be- cause the language already in use was insufficient. If, therefore, I shall sometimes seem ob...scure, it may be imputed to this voluntary interdiction, and to a desire of avoiding that offence which is always given by un- usual words. The heroick measure of the English language may be properly considered as pure or mixed. It is pure when the accent rests upon every second syllable through the whole line. Courage uncertain dangers may abatci Buc who can-bear th' approach of certain fate. DRYDEN. Here love his golden shafts employs, here lights His constant lamp, and waves his purple wings, Reigns here, and revtls; nor in the bought smile Of harlots, loveless, joyless, unendear'd.
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