“What greater grief can on a Roman seize,
    Than to be forced to live on terms like these!”
        —­Rowe cor.

    “He views the naked town with joyful eyes,
    While from his rage an arm~ed people flies.”
        —­Rowe cor.

    “For planks and beams, he ravages the wood,
    And the tough oak extends across the flood.”
        —­Rowe cor.

    “A narrow pass the horn~ed mole divides. 
    Narrow as that where strong Euripus’ tides
    Beat on Euboean Chalcis’ rocky sides.”
        —­Rowe cor.

    “No force, no fears their hands unarm~ed bear,”—­or,
    “No force, no fears their hands unarm’d now bear,
    But looks of peace and gentleness they wear.”
        —­Rowe cor.

    “The ready warriors all aboard them ride,
    And wait return of the retiring tide.”
        —­Rowe cor.

    “He saw those troops that long had faithful stood,
    Friends to his cause, and enemies to good,
    Grown weary of their chief, and satiate with blood.”
        —­Rowe cor.

END OF THE KEY.

APPENDIX I. TO PART FIRST, OR ORTHOGRAPHY.  OF THE SOUNDS OF THE LETTERS.

In the first chapter of Part I, the powers of the letters, or the elementary sounds of the English language, were duly enumerated and explained; for these, as well as the letters themselves, are few, and may be fully stated in few words:  but, since we often express the same sound in many different ways, and also, in some instances, give to the same letter several different sounds,—­or, it may be, no sound at all,—­any adequate account of the powers of the letters considered severally according to usage,—­that is, of the sound or sounds of each letter, with its mute positions, as these occur in practice,—­must, it was thought, descend to a minuteness of detail not desirable in the first chapter of Orthography.  For this reason, the following particulars have been reserved to be given here as an Appendix, pertaining to the First Part of this English Grammar.

OBSERVATIONS.

OBS. 1.—­A proper discrimination of the different vowel sounds by the epithets most commonly used for this purpose,—­such as long and short, broad and slender, open and close, or open and shut,—­is made difficult, if not impossible, by reason of the different, and sometimes directly contradictory senses in which certain orthoepists [sic—­KTH] have employed such terms.  Wells says, “Vowel sounds are called open or close, according to the relative size of the opening through which the voice passes in forming them.  Thus, a in father, and o in nor, are called open sounds, because they are formed by a wide opening of the organs of speech; while e in me, and u in rule, are called close sounds, because the organs are nearly closed in uttering them.”—­School Grammar, 1850, p. 32.  Good use should fix the import of words.  How does the passage here cited comport with this hint of Pope?