A GRAMMAR OF THE

In that of seven.

For resistance I could fear none,

But with twenty ships had done# What thou, brave and happy Vernon,

Hast atchiev’d with six alone. Glover.

In that of six.

’T was when the seas were roaring,

With hollow blasts of wind,

A damsel lay deploring,

All on a rock reclin’d. Gay.

In the anapestick,

When terrible tempests assail us,

And mountainous billows affright,

Nor power nor wealth can avail us,

But skilful industry steers right.

| To these measures, and their laws, may be reduced every species of English verse.

Our versification admits of few licences, except a synal-cepha , or elision of e in the before a vowel, as tk* eternal;and more rarely of o in to, as V accept ; and a syneeresis, bywhich two short vowels coalesce into one syllable, as question,special; or a word is contracted by the expulsion of a shortvowel before a liquid, as av'rice , temp'rance.

Thus have I collected rules and examples by which the English languagemay be learned, if the reader be already acquainted with grammatical terms,i or taught by a master to those that are more ignorant. To have written arammar for such as are not yet initiated in the schools, would have been te-ious, and perhaps at last ir>effectual.

Ballad.

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