KINGSLEY

asking to be allowed one word more? I should earnestly warn him against those anapestic metres, the next sentence is written with the metre displayed I love / to gaze / on the trackless deep /, continuing which in our language must by filled up with iambic instead of spondees, and so go lilting on three legs, like a yankee trotting mare, to the destruction of all grace & dignity. The small... of the day all affect them - pray save him from the infection, & keep hin to iambs, dactyls, & above all to trockees..., 1 side 8vo., no place, no date