ERRORS OF METRE.

LESSON I.--RESTORE THE RHYTHM.

"The lion is laid down in his lair."--_O. B. Peirce's Gram._, p. 134.

[FORMULE.--Not proper, because the word "_lion_," here put for Cowper's
word "_beast_" destroys the metre, and changes the line to prose. But,
according to the definition given on p. 827, "Verse, in opposition to
prose, is language arranged into metrical lines of some determinate length
and rhythm--language so ordered as to produce harmony by a due succession
of poetic feet." This line was composed of one iamb and two anapests; and,
to such form, it should be restored, thus: "The _beast_ is laid down in his
lair."--_Cowper's Poems_, Vol. i, p. 201.]

"Where is thy true treasure? Gold says, not in me."
--_Hallock's Gram._, 1842, p. 66.

"Canst thou grow sad, thou sayest, as earth grows bright?"
--_Frazee's Gram._, 1845, p. 140.

"It must be so, Plato, thou reasonest well."
--_Wells's Gram._, 1846, p. 122.

"Slow rises merit, when by poverty depressed."
--_Ib._, p. 195; _Hiley_, 132; _Hart_, 179.

"Rapt in future times, the bard begun."
--_Wells's Gram._, 1846, p. 153.

"Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens
To wash it white as snow? Whereunto serves mercy,
But to confront the visage of offence!"
--_Hallock's Gram._, 1842, p. 118.

"Look! in this place ran Cassius's dagger through."
--_Kames, El. of Cr._, Vol. i, p. 74.

"----When they list their lean and flashy songs,
Harsh grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw."
--_Jamieson's Rhet._, p. 135.

"Did not great Julius bleed for justice's sake?"
--_Dodd's Beauties of Shak._, p. 253.

"Did not great Julius bleed for justice sake?"
--_Singer's Shakspeare_, Vol. ii, p. 266.

"May I, unblam'd, express thee? Since God is light."
--_O. B. Peirce's Gram._, p. 290.

"Or hearest thou, rather, pure ethereal stream!"
--_2d Perversion, ib._

"Republics; kingdoms; empires, may decay;
Princes, heroes, sages, sink to nought."
--_O. B. Peirce's Gram._, p. 287.

"Thou bringest, gay creature as thou art,
A solemn image to my heart."
--_E. J. Hallock's Gram._, p. 197.

"Know thyself presume not God to scan;
The proper study of mankind is Man."
--_O. B. Peirce's Gram._, p. 285.

"Raised on a hundred pilasters of gold."
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