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was above obferved, however, upon the Structure of the fecond 

 line of Pope's EfTay on Man, there muft be a fenfible red or 

 filence betwixt the feventh and eighth fyllables. Accordingly, 

 this has commonly been confidered, and perhaps with propriety, 

 as the place of the paufe in this line. It is probable, however, 

 that the cadence of the verfe would not have been fo agreeable 

 and fatisfactory, if the regular rythmical divifion had not oc- 

 curred at the fourth fyllable. 



Some additional obfervations upon rythmical meafures, and 

 upon the flructure of ancient and modern verfes, fhall be re- 

 ferved to the fecond part of this EfTay. 



PART II. 



IN the former part of this EfTay, I endeavoured to eftablifh 

 the general foundations of rythm, and to explain the nature 

 and the extent of thofe powers, by which we perceive the pro- 

 portional magnitudes of fmall intervals of time, when thefe are 

 made obvious to the fenfes by motion or by fucceflive founds. 

 The cafe of founds being that which is mod interesting, I di- 

 rected my attention chiefly to it. Rythm in found I diftin- 

 guifhed into three kinds, mufical, poetical and profaic ; and 

 made fome obfervations upon the two firft of thefe. I propofe, 

 in this part, to offer a few obfervations relative to the fame Sub- 

 jects, which may tend to throw fome further light upon them. 

 In thefe obfervations, I fhall have the following objects chiefly 

 in view : To explain that flructure or arrangement of meafured 

 founds, which may be faid to give a regular and perfect rythm ; 

 to mark the gradual deviations from that regular ftructure, 

 which appear in thofe productions of human genius which are 

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