ove, pity, war, the shout, the song, the prayer
Form quick concussions of elastic air. 370

"Hence the first accents bear in airy rings
The vocal symbols of ideal things,
Name each nice change appulsive powers supply
To the quick sense of touch, or ear or eye.
Or in fine traits abstracted forms suggest
Of Beauty, Wisdom, Number, Motion, Rest;
Or, as within reflex ideas move,
Trace the light steps of Reason, Rage, or Love.
The next new sounds adjunctive thoughts recite,
As hard, odorous, tuneful, sweet, or white. 380
The next the fleeting images select
Of action, suffering, causes and effect;
Or mark existence, with the march sublime
O'er earth and ocean of recording TIME.

[Footnote: _Hence the first accents_, l. 371. Words were
originally the signs or names of individual ideas; but in all
known languages many of them by changing their terminations
express more than one idea, as in the cases of nouns, and the
moods and tenses of verbs. Thus a whip suggests a single idea
of that instrument; but "to whip," suggests an idea of
action, joined with that of the instrument, and is then
called a verb; and "to be whipped," suggests an idea of being
acted upon or suffering. Thus in most languages two ideas are
suggested by one word by changing its termination; as amor,
love; amare, to love; amari, to be loved.

Nouns are the names of the ideas of things, first as they are
received by the stimulus of objects, or as they are
afterwards repeated; secondly, they are names of more
abstracted ideas, which do not suggest at the same time the
external objects, by which they were originally excited; or
thirdly, of the operations of our minds, which are termed
reflex ideas by metaphysical writers; or lastly, they are the
names of our ideas of parts or properties of objects; and are
termed by grammarians nouns adjective.

Verbs are also in reality names of our ideas of things, or
nouns, with the addition of another idea to them, as of
acting or suffering; or of more than one other annexed idea,
as of time, and also of existence. These with the numerous
abbreviations, so well illustrated by Mr. Horne Tooke in his
Diversions of