An Inquiry Into the Principles of Harmony in Language, and of the Mechanism of Verse, Modern and Antient (Classic Reprint)

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With the warmth of youth, on the impulfe of the moment, I expreffed my wonder that he, a votary of fancy and the mules, could find patience for fuch dull and, I fuppofed, unin terefiing controverfy. He anfwered that the intereft in the fubjeé't, fo warmly and exten fively taken of late among men of letters, had excited his curiofity, which had been gratified by elucidation of the fubjeét itfelf, interef'ting inasmuch as it materially concerns the theory at leall Of verfification; but he had found farther gratification from an account, in' Fofier's work, of the Greeks who, on the overthrow of the Conf'tantinopolitan empire, fpred their language and learning over wefiern Europe. Thus my curiofity was excited, and the refult was that I borrowed the book. Among my oaks on the coall of Hamp fhire then was revived that intereft in the fubjeft, which had originated whilei was a boy under your Father's care On the verge of the Surrey downs. The information collected in Pofier's book from Greek and Latin writers, concerning Greek and Latin verfification, gratified me highly his mif'takes concerning Englifh verfification, hurt me. It prefently'

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