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verfe may be exad^, and yet the order, arrangement and difpofition 

 of the letters and fyllables, fuch as to be grating and unmelodious 

 to the ear. In Hke manner the feet of the verfe may be exadl, 

 but the ftrefs laid upon particular fyllables of it ^^hicll follows the 

 quantity may totally deflroy the melody : in fhort, the radical error 

 feems to be the confufion of quantity with melody, and the 

 fuppofition that whatever is at war with quantity and metre muft 

 be at war with melody.* I ardently agree with the praifes of 

 the author of the Acccntus Rcdivivi on the Scholiafles ad He- 

 phseftionem, that Rhythmus trahit tempora ut vult, & faepe breve 

 tempus facit, ut fit longum ; on which the treatife de Rhythmo 

 Grascorum obferves, if this be true, plane adtum eft de metris. 

 I admit it if they come in oppofition to Rhythmos or melody. 

 With refpefl to profe I think this is acknowledged, why not 

 with refped to verfe? That it is acknowledged with refped to 

 profe, Dacier and Pearce argue from the famous paffage of 

 Longinus, where he fays, that the paflage of Demofthenes fo 

 famous for its pleafing found, tuto to ^ri<pi(yficc, confifts entirely of 

 dadyl rhythms. "Vripa-i^x then as pronounced by him was a dadyl, 

 not a dadyl meafure, but a dadyl rhythm, and it is re- 

 markable 

 • I fpeak with much hefitation, however, when I recolleft, that a mod revered and 

 mod beloved, and truly great m.in*,who honoured me with his friendfliip, and whofe 

 lofs the world deplores, was of a totally different opinion, and once repeated to me, 

 to oppofe mine, with much emphafis, thefe lines of the third book of the Odyfley :^ 



• The late Primate. 



