442 MISCELLANEOUS THOUGHTS: " Certis astrorum periodis alligavit, fixitque: " Qualis in semitas " Vi gravitatis flectuntur cometae, " Advenm, profugi, reducesve, monstravit. Pallidumque eorumjubar " Beneficum potins quam ferale, " Planeticolis exhibuitoptandum. " Lucis simplicis ertmn multiformem, " Variegate simplicem, " Colorum sc. mirata theoriam " Primus & penitus exploravit. Fidis experimentis non fictis hypothesibus, inni ctm " Scientix humante limites, " Ultra quam fas erat mortalibus sperare, " Proprio marte promovit, Posterisque ulterius promovendos " Nostrum super tethers scandeas "Monuit & indigitavit. " Vale, ctelestis anima, " Seculi gentisquè tom lumen ingens Ac inges desiderium, " Generis human decus, vale." LXXII. The Cadence of Verse. IN writings of every kind, an author should be solicitous so is compose his work, that the ear may be able to take in all the ideas, as well as the eye, and to convey his complete sense to the mind with ease and pleasure. Since every sentence has some words in it which are more emphatical than the rest, and upon which the meaning, the beauty, the force, and the pleasure of the sentence depend, the writer should take great care that the hearer may have a distinguishing perception of all these, as well as the person who reads. All the parts of a sentence from one end to the other, are not to be pronounced with the (same tone of voice; such a constant uniformity would not only be heavy and tiresome, but the hearer would never be impressed with the true sense of the period, unless the voice of the reader were changed agreeably, as the sense of words require. This is properly called cadence. A good cadence in verse, "is much the same thing as the proper and graceful sound of a period in prose. This arises partly from the harshness or softness of the words, and the happy disposition of them, in a sort of harmony with the, ideas wlticlt are represented, partly from the long and short accents which belong to the syllables well mingled, and partly also from the length and shortness of the sentences, and a proper situation of the pauses or stops, as well 'as from putting the emphaticál words in their clue places. All this might be made evident in a variety of instances, by shewinOtow obscure or how languid the sense sometimes would be found, 'if the proper cadences be not observed by the writer or reader;" how ungraceful, how un- musical, and even offensive would some sentences appear in
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