[509] See exercises in Punctuation, on page 786, of this work.—­G.  B.

[510] The Seventieth Psalm is the same as the last five verses of the Fortieth, except a few unimportant differences of words or points.

[511] It is obvious, that these two lines may easily be reduced to an agreeable stanza, by simply dividing each after the fourth foot—­G.  B.

[512] In Sanborn’s Analytical Grammar, on page 279th, this couplet is ascribed to “Pope;” but I have sought in vain for this quotation, or any example of similar verse, in the works of that poet.  The lines, one or both of them, appear, without reference, in L.  Murray’s Grammar, Second Edition, 1796, p. 176, and in subsequent editions; in W.  Allen’s, p. 225; Bullions’s, 178; N.  Butler’s, 192; Chandler’s New, 196; Clark’s, 201; Churchill’s, 187; Cooper’s Practical, 185; Davis’s, 137; Farnum’s, 106; Felton’s, 142; Frazee’s, 184; Frost’s, 164; S.  S. Greene’s, 250; Hallock’s, 244; Hart’s, 187; Hiley’s, 127; Humphrey’s Prosody, 17; Parker and Fox’s Gram., Part iii, p. 60; Weld’s, 211; Ditto Abridged, 138; Wells’s, 200; Fowler’s, 658; and doubtless in many other such books.

[513] “Owen succeeded his father Griffin in the principality of North Wales, A. D. 1120.  This battle was fought near forty years afterwards.  North Wales is called, in the fourth line, ‘Gwyneth;’ and ‘Lochlin,’ in the fourteenth, is Denmark.”—­Gray.  Some say “Lochlin,” in the Annals of Ulster, means Norway.—­G.  B.

[514] “The red dragon is the device of Cadwallader, which all his descendants bore on their banners.”—­Gray.

[515] This passage, or some part of it, is given as a trochaic example, in many different systems of prosody.  Everett ascribes it entire to “John Chalkhill;” and Nutting, more than twenty years before, had attached the name of “Chalkhill” to a part of it.  But the six lines “of three syllables,” Dr. Johnson, in his Grammar, credits to “Walton’s Angler;” and Bicknell, too, ascribes the same to “Walton.”  The readings also have become various.  Johnson, Bicknell, Burn, Churchill, and Nutting, have “Here” for “Where” in the fifth line above; and Bicknell and Burn have “Stop” in the eighth line, where the rest read “Stops.”  Nutting has, for the ninth line, “Others’ joys,” and not, “Other joys,” as have the rest.—­G.  B.

[516] OBS.—­Of this, and of every other example which requires no amendment, let the learner simply say, after reading the passage, “This sentence is correct as it stands.”—­G.  BROWN.