verfe

The conftrained elegance of this kind of verfe, and ftudied fmoothnefs of the founds, anfwering re - gularly to each other at the end of the line, though they be quite confiftent with gentle emotions, yet weaken the native force of Sub - limity; befides, that the fnperfluous worda which the poet is often obliged to introduce, in order to fill up the rhyme, tend farther to en - feeble it.

Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres 1812

The Romans alfo (as nature is the fame in all places) though they knew nothing of thofe Grecian demi-gods, nor had any communication with Greece, yet had cer - tainly young men, who, at their feftivals, danced and fung after their uncouth manner, to a certain kind of verfe, which they called Saturnian: what it was, we have no certain light from antiquity to difcover; but we DEDICATION.

The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790

The young, the tender daughter of a, great and renowned houfe, thus beheld: herfelf, by a flrange, an unforefeen re -., verfe of fortune, in a fingle night convey - ed from fplendour and affluence, from the beloved home of lier family, to the wanti - and woes of captivity in an unknown caf - tie.

The knights; or, Sketches of the heroic age 1797

It was from this covenant the Pfalmift, in the verfe im - mediately preceding the firft text, took a comfortalle view of a glorious building, infallibly going up in the mii; ll of ruins; even a building of mercy: For I have/aid, Aler* cy fhaJl le bvilt ypfor ever: the ground of which confident aflertion is, iu our text, pointed out to be God's covenant with \m Chofen.

A View of the Covenant of Grace from the Sacred Records.: Wherein the Parties in that Covenant ... 1797

The popular tribunal of Marfeilles fuf - pended, becaufe it was becom. e more ad - verfe to the jacobins fmcc the arrival of the Bourbons.

Historical epochs of the French Revolution, Goudemetz, H 1796

And in his All for Love, end of a£t i. there is a fimilar verfe:

The Monthly Review 1796

It is one entire fyftem, and ca»not be divided, one part of it from another, at any time; whereas diyerfe doftrines, fpoken of verfe 9. may be known by their diverfity, or dividing of one piece of truth from another, to be unfound -, unfafe, and watifce to Chrift, who is always the fame.

Sermons and Other Practical Works: Consisting of Above One Hundred and Fifty Sermons Besides His ... 1796

In the following verfe his* devotion again gets the afcendency: he limits his general affection - to ibrtune only, and replaces all the other gods in lympus/.

The Analytical Review, Or History of Literature, Domestic and Foreign, on an Enlarged Plan 1796

Even to thee that, as in the preceding verfe, art faying, that thou art rich and increafed with goods, and ftandeft in need of nothing, and knoweft not that thou art wretched, and miferable, and poor, and blind, and naked. '

Sermons and Other Practical Works: Consisting of Above One Hundred and Fifty Sermons Besides His ... 1796

Again, if we view thefe words ia their connexion, we find indeed there is no particle of conncftlon or relation in diis text, to direft us to the dependance of it upon that which goes before or follows; yet the very fubjefit matter of it evidently Ihevvs, that it hath a fit reference bath to the verfe before, and to the following.

Sermons and Other Practical Works: Consisting of Above One Hundred and Fifty Sermons Besides His ... 1796