The rest in the fifth place has the same inconvenience as in the seventh and third, that the syllable is weak.
Beast now with beast 'gan war, and fowl with fowl,
And fish with fish, to graze the herb all leaving,
Devour'd each other: Nor stood much in awe
Of man, but fled him, or with countenance grim,
Glar'd on him passing.
The noblest and most majestick pauses which our versification admits, are upon the fourth and sixth syllables, which are both strongly sounded in a pure and regular verse, and at either of which the line is so divided, that both members participate of harmony.
But now at last the sacred influence
Of light appears, and from the walls of heav'n