mology and syntax, with theirs, prosody comes next and completes the system. Having thus gone through, we may then review the system in all its parts, and be able to trace a series of minor parts and branches, which compose the system, in their regular order; we may review them in their distinct capacities, and also in their connections and bearings. This work now comes before the public, not in the usual way of publications of this kind; not having been reviewed and recommended by any literary characters. It is not pretended that the work is free from defects. Of its merits or demerits the public may judge, and on this basis it may stand or fall. A. H. Carver, near Plymouth, March 4, 1847. Page. 1 2 2 SECT. 1. - Preliminary Remarks Of Sounds........ Of Time and Quantity: The Poetic Pauses : CHAPTER II. 8 9 SECT. 1.- Of Feet........ Movement, Measure, and Different kinds of Feet Remarks, &c...... 10 10 12 CHAPTER III. OF ORDERS AND METRES. 14 SECT. 1. - Definitions Of Metres 15 Page. 53 53 54 55 55 56 56 SECT. 5. - Diversifications, &c. in Trochaic Verse. . By Dactyles.... By Pyrrhics and Spondees SECT. 6. - Anapæstic Verse ....... By Amphimacs, Bacchies, and Spondees. . 19. Sect. 7.- Amphibrachic Verse..... By Bacchies and Antibacchies SECT. 8. - Composite Orders Sapphic Verse Other Composite Orders. ... Irregular Orders ..... Questions and Exercises...... 56 57 59 61 63 64 66 67 |