Lives of the English Poets / From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives

by Henry Francis Cary

And showers | th[)e] st[=i]ll | sn[=o]w fr[)o]m | his hoary urns. Darwin, Botanic Garden, p. I, c. 2, 28.

Or dart | th[)e] r[=e]d | fl[=a]sh thr[)o]ugh | the circling band. Ibid. 361.

Or rests | h[)e]r fa[=i]r | ch[=e]ek [)o]n | his curled brows. Ibid. c. 2, 252.

Deserve | [)a] sw[=e]et | l[=o]ok fr[)o]m | Demetrius' eye. Shakspeare, Mid. N. D.

Infect | th[)e] so[=u]nd | p[=i]ne [)a]nd | divert his grain. Shakespeare, Tempest.

Which on | thy s[=o]ft | ch[=e]ek f[)o]r | complexion dwells. Shakspeare, Sonnet 99.

To lay | th[)e]ir j[=u]st | h[=a]nds [)o]n | the golden key. Milton, Comus.

Or where they make the end of an iambic in the first, and the beginning of a spondee in the second foot, as

Th[)e] w[=a]n | st[=a]rs gl[=i]m|mering through its silver train. Botanic Garden, p. I, c. I, 135.

Th[)e] br[=i]ght | dr[=o]ps r[=o]l|ling from her lifted arms. Ibid. c. 2, 59.