Essays / by Adam Smith.

  • Adam Smith
Date:
1869
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Credit: Essays / by Adam Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Chey c», in either lan^e, be reduced ■» Xii'»»VeTt;X;r^^ there are. e.Hcdy speaking, fourteen “iSlelin the first line, and twelve tn the second. And many a humoHrous, many an amorous lay, Wassungby manyabard,onmany aday. ^ By the rapidity, however, or, if I ntay use » i, by the glibness of the ,ie up the the first line, and those words many a, though they time but of ten ordina.7 are all pro- plainly consist of one after ’the other, ^et pass as but two Thli ^s do likewise these words, humourous, and amorous The vowL which in one placemakes but one a 1 c ts.rr. TViprp are even some words which in tne eno 01 veme am constantly counted for two part of it are never counted for more than one, such '^iutcdHiS^ that in the Italian Heroic V-se the . to fall upon the fourth, the sixth, the eighth, and the tenth syllable , and tha? if it falls upon the third, the fifth, the seventh, or the ninth svllables, it will spoil the verse. .* j In English, if the accent falls upon any of the above-mentioned odd syllables, it equally spoils the verse. Bow’d their stiff necks, loaden with stormy blasts, ' thoutrh a line of Milton, has not the ordinary movement of an English Heroic Verse, the accent falls upon the third and sixth syllables. In Italian frequently, and in English sometimes, an accent is with great grace thrown upon the first syllable, in which case it seldom happens that any other syllable is accented before the fourth ; Cdnto I'armSpietbse il capitdno. First in these fidlds I try the sylvan strdins. Both in English and in Italian the second syllable may be accented
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