Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1820-12-05
By SAMUEL WOODWORTK
GENERAL CONTENTS OF THE WORK.

lungs OF Lord kaims, Blair, Walker, Irving, &C.
H. Rules for the construction of ENGLISH
VERSE, by which the most ordinary as well as
most brilliant ideas may be readily expressed
IN smooth harmonious numbers. 1t is not the
object OF these Rules to accommodate the arc
to the practice, and thus to tolerate the nnme-
rous errors and unwarrantable liberties of g CO.
ebrated poets, merely because they are cet'-
6rated; but rather to form critical TEST ba-
which such errors and liberties may be detect
ed and avoided. 1t is intended to show. not
how Poetry has been, but how it Ought to be.
written.
These Rules, which are few, plain, and
easily comprehended, are Invested of all per-
picking phraseology, and adapted to the .Me1u
School of Poetry, which now obtains in Great
Britain, aud TO which public taste, on both sides
the Atlantic, is principally indebted for its re.
cent reformation and present refinement.
The .Netr4cal Ganut, on which these Rules
are predicated, will be found valuable aux,lia-
~, not only to the pupil, whose unfiedged
muse has never yet ventured to soar into the
sublime regions Of fancy, but, also, TO the ac-
compllshed "master of the lyre," whose dar.
ing and successful flights have already scaled
the bciptal summit of mount Parnassus. Il
%lll be seen that Scale or Gantit is as appli-
cable to Poetry as to Music, and that the rudi-
ments Of each art may, and ought to be, taught
by similar process.
III. Rules for PUNCTUATION, founded on the
practice of the most correct writer's in tho
English language; comprising original strc-
lures on the Punctuation of Hcrae.
". Epithets and Synonymes, suitable for
any and every possible subject, which subjects
are alphabetically arranged as heads for
the various epithets applicable to them. Thus,
tor instance, under the word ABSENCE, will be
found every Gdiecfiue which can properly agree
with that noun-as enUioas, long, PROLONGED, te-
doms, tnaweicome, painful, constrained, f6feettiA,
o6hUiouS. CSC. &c. Under BROOK, such cpl
thets as murmut4mg, silver, grassy, babbE4g,
sN'ghns, 'phtspe'4ng, tanlag, meGndsri1g, &c.
Under sKr-G1Nre ceiHleGn, starry, pau}tsd,
spangted, &c Under EYE--melting, beamp.
sparkling, piercing, sc. &c. But enough has
been said to convince the reader of The ntIity
of this part Of the work.
'. a choice selection of the most elcpant.
significant, andapproved forms of recommending,
disprasing, protesting, conjuring or beseecR-
ing, expressing gratitude, benediction, male
dicton, blessing times and days, cursing ditto,
breaking eff subject, Introducing smilitudes,
invoking Muses., concluding letters, sc. &c.
vi. Dictionary Of Rhymes, on plan at
once novel, amusing, and instructive. Al the
single rhymes in the English language are here
collected, and ciaSsed in such manner rs to
enable the poet. in a moment and without tho
least trouble, to find an appropriate word,
which. perhaps an hours mental exertion
would not have brought to his recollection.
VII. But thisis not all. The rhymes are not
only classed, but each and every one is defined
by its practical use, in examples quoted from
the works Of the most celebrated poets, ancient
and modern, who have written in the English
bly conceived conssts tha o,,;ae % ''u'''c
the work. 4 nere coIIect;on of r,,SaGnaa
,h,,rooe et,r5:,a - H., a. "
do in other works of this kind ave mt onj,,
offensive 10 die eve and ear. buta re olso Viii
w inaieoDs+- 10 the ;ntendad ,,rr,11., -:
tina, Of ijrectino tbe Indictment IN H. oho;oa'
whereas. in the ,rranrr.ent nov, o9n,;+a1
each rhyme is reneatod a. oeten 40 10 -,
nov,ers and d;Herant "s -, Nanous
Thus the young poet is not only furnished with
the requisite rhyme, but also with every neces-
S"ly ,ns'r,ctoh ior It's proper application.
vi pnt Aho'her (and' perhaps, not the
remains to be mentioned From l y, b be b "o'I'
ready been said, it will be nerce;ved tha, he
RayaiAg Dictionary is, also, in itself, Diction-
arg q P0etScal Qaotatio',s, comprising a co!'ec-
th vm ", 'as" I.orS,' asreeaole ana sublime
.ao."''' a. a.a 10 DC iouha IN the nesi English
l,,d 90 ,lr.ssos' S.'"he -.
hecomes tevthani- of 5, a,a unss ~ 'ils
most any snl,ect a,a y, .sJDs, suitable ior al
haaJs "" ~, - nJeen al unier appropriate
VIII a,so n most so 'n uo,ous iaeA. II
", "'so II, ,.loa oa'es, suoserve I'll tne pur-
i,s. Gar hv Gnd;no. ~ 80 "'n pgIiony.
&C the eub;ecf Of o''r thonnbt - 80. ~, noi.A
be ,anoed undcr va can read;lu Jsa my ~
some BARI Of the collection what tens h.r ~.
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