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1S6 E.EAl. x i vk LAi<GUAGE. Ch. XVIII,
Shrines where their vigils |j pale-ey’d virgins keep
Sochas thy letters |J trembling I unclose
No happier talk 11 thefe saded eyes pursue.
What is {aid about the.pause , leads to a gene-
ral observation , That the natural order of placing
the a olive substantive and its verb, is more friendly
to a pause than the inverted order ; but that in all
the other connexions, inversion afsords a far bet-
ter opportunity for a pause. And hence one great
advantage of blank verle over rhyme ; its privi-
lege of inversion giving it a much greater choice
of pauses than can be had in the natural order of
arrangement-
We now proceed to the Righter connexions,
which {hall be difcussgd in one general article.
Words conne&ed by conjunctions and prepositions
admit freely a pause between them, which will be
clear srom the sollowing inRances :
Assunae whatsexes II andwhatshape they please
The light militia || of the lower iky
Conne&ing particles were invented to unite in a
period two substantives lignisying things oecasion-
ally united in the thought, but which have no na-
turalunion : and between two things not only se-
parable in idea, but really distind, the mind, for
Shrines where their vigils |j pale-ey’d virgins keep
Sochas thy letters |J trembling I unclose
No happier talk 11 thefe saded eyes pursue.
What is {aid about the.pause , leads to a gene-
ral observation , That the natural order of placing
the a olive substantive and its verb, is more friendly
to a pause than the inverted order ; but that in all
the other connexions, inversion afsords a far bet-
ter opportunity for a pause. And hence one great
advantage of blank verle over rhyme ; its privi-
lege of inversion giving it a much greater choice
of pauses than can be had in the natural order of
arrangement-
We now proceed to the Righter connexions,
which {hall be difcussgd in one general article.
Words conne&ed by conjunctions and prepositions
admit freely a pause between them, which will be
clear srom the sollowing inRances :
Assunae whatsexes II andwhatshape they please
The light militia || of the lower iky
Conne&ing particles were invented to unite in a
period two substantives lignisying things oecasion-
ally united in the thought, but which have no na-
turalunion : and between two things not only se-
parable in idea, but really distind, the mind, for