As Plants.————
But I shall have occasion to take notice of this Subject hereafter.
IV. The fourth thing to be enquir'd into is, The mixing of singular and plural Numbers, in which Milton excels.
"———————Flowers were the Couch
Pansies, and Violets, and Asphodel,
And Hyacinth, Earth's freshest softest Lap.
Again,
"———Through many a dark and dreary Vale
They pass'd, and many a Region dolorous,
O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp,