Note 39 — WORDS.
Reading edition
⸺“He would have spoke.” Milton, P. L. x. 517.
“Words interwove with sighs found out their way.” P. L. i. 621.
“And to his faithful servant hath in place Bore witness gloriously.”—Samson Ag. ℣. 1752.
“And envious darkness, ere they could return, Had stole them from me.”—Comus, ℣. 195.
Here it is observable, that the Author’s MS. and the First Edition have it stolne.
⸺“And in triumph had rode.” P. R. iii. 36.
⸺“I have chose This perfect man.”⸺ P. R. i. 165.
⸺“The fragrant brier was wove between.” Dryden, Fables.
“Then finish what you have began, But scribble faster, if you can.” Dryden, Poems, Vol. 2. p. 172.
“Have sprang.” Atterbury, Vol. 1. Serm. 4.
“Had spake”⸺“had began.”⸺Clarendon, Contin. Hist. p. 40, & 120. “The men begun to embellish themselves.” Addison, Spect. Nᵒ 434.
“Rapt into future times the bard begun.” Pope, Messiah.
And without the necessity of rhyme:
“A second deluge learning thus o’er-run, And the Monks finish’d what the Goths begun.” Essay on Criticism.
“Repeats you verses wrote on glasses.” Prior.
“Mr. Misson has wrote.”—Addison, Preface to his Travels. “He could only command his voice, broke with sighs and sobbings, so far as to bid her proceed.” Addison, Spect. Nᵒ 164.
“No civil broils have since his death arose.” Dryden, on O. Cromwell.
“Illustrious virtues, who by turns have rose.” Prior.
⸺“Had not arose.” Swift, Tale of a Tub, Sect. x. and Battle of Books: and Bolingbroke, Letter to Wyndham, p. 233.⸺“This nimble operator will have stole it.” Tale of a Tub, Sect. x. “Some philosophers have mistook.” Ibid. Sect. ix.
⸺“Silence Was took ere she was ware.” Milton, Comus.
“Into these common places look, Which from great authors I have took.” Prior, Alma.
“A free Constitution, when it has been shook by the iniquity of former administrations.” Lord Bolingbroke, Patriot King, p. 111.⸺“Too strong to be shook by his enemies.” Atterbury. “But there was now an accident fell out.”⸺Clarendon, Contin. p. 292.
⸺“Ev’n there he should have fell.” Prior, Solomon.
“Sure some disaster has befell: Speak, Nurse; I hope the Boy is well.” Gay, Fables.