The clouds along the sky.”
—Carm. ii. 16, Martin’s translation.
[80]. We do not here forget such songs as Shakspeare’s “Come away, come away, Death,” or Ben Jonson’s “See the chariot at hand here of Love,” or the anapests and dactyls in the madrigals. But we think it cannot be gainsaid that the general tendency of the earlier poets was to simple rhythms, and that the intricate arrangements of rhyme and novelties of metre in which modern poets delight were little known to them, or, if known, little relished.
[81].
“Fled are the snows; and the green, reappearing,
Shoots in the meadow and shines on the tree.”
[82]. Note by the author of the article.—The import of this needs some further explanation. Since the body is full of various and contrary physical forces, these must come either from the soul as the active principle giving the materia of the body its first being, or from the elements which are the chemical components of the blood, bones, and other integral parts of the body. The soul cannot furnish them, because it does not possess them. Therefore the elements remain, and the material substance remains, and they are not divested of their substantial formality.
[83]. Viz., that the modern theory destroys the unity of substances, and particularly the unity of the human nature or substance.—Author of the article.
[84]. Cant. iv. 7.
[85]. Ex. xvi. 33; Heb. ix. 4.