2. "The Muses fair, these peaceful shades among,
With skillful fingers sweep the trembling strings."
--Lloyd.
3. "Where Echo walks steep hills among,
List'ning to the shepherd's song."
--J. Warton, U. Poems, p. 33.
XL. They have occasionally employed certain prepositions for which, perhaps, it would not be easy to cite prosaic authority; as, adown, aloft, aloof, anear, aneath, askant, aslant, aslope, atween, atwixt, besouth, traverse, thorough, sans. (See Obs. 10th, and others, at p. 441.)
XLI. They oftener employ INTERJECTIONS than do prose writers; as,
"O let me gaze!--Of gazing there's no end.
O let me think!--Thought too is wilder'd here."
--Young.
XLII. They oftener employ ANTIQUATED WORDS and modes of expression; as,
1. "Withouten that, would come an heavier bale."
--Thomson.
2. "He was, to weet, a little roguish page,
Save sleep and play, who minded nought at all."
--Id.
3. "Not one eftsoons in view was to be found."
--Id.
4. "To number up the thousands dwelling here,
An useless were, and eke an endless task."
--Id.
5. "Of clerks good plenty here you mote espy."
--Id.
6. "But these I passen by with nameless numbers moe."
--Id.
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