1 In another place the apoftle delineates his fufferings for the cross of Chrift: "In journeying often, in perils of waters, "in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own 66 countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilder“ness, in perils in the fea, in perils amongst falfe brethren; "In weariness and painfulness, in watch❝ings often, in hunger and thirst, in fast"ings often, in cold and nakedness."COR. II. Ch. ii. V. 26, 27. These examples would have proved the additional strength of a fentiment by the omiffion of copulatives. The increased force of a religious reflection is ascertained by the lefs fignificant adverbial repetitions in the above examples. The fame may be collected from the following paffage of CICERO's oration against Piso. Ecquid rides? Ecquid fentis? Lege judi"ciariâ latâ quos judices fimus habituri? G 2 "Non "Non æquè legetur, quifquis voluerit, quif"quis noluerit, non legetur; nulli conjiciencc tur, nulli eximentur; non ambitio ad gratiam, non iniquitas ad fimulationem "conjicietur." " A recent determination, which superfeded law, may fix the defpotic character of the minifters who occafioned it, in the words above notified in Italics. Indeed, there are many ftriking resemblances between the particular events recorded in the oration of the Roman, and those of the era intimated; 66 non puto" (as ASCONIUS fays) "vos ignorare, hos Pifones ex eâ familiâ effe, for << quæ frugi appellata fit."-Our ftate economy was then exceffive. To which I cannot forbear adding a most emphatical repetition of VIRGIL in those fweeteft lines, Georg. iii. ad fin. "Non umbræ altorum nemorum, non mollia The judgement of SCALIGER will fufficiently recommend them to every reader of taste.-See WARTON's Virg. in the Notes. As well as the following verfes, which are fuccessful rivals of Virgilian harmony : "Te, Dea, te fugiunt venti, te nubila cœli, "Adventumq; tuum; tibi fuaves dædala tellus "Summittit flores; tibi rident æquora ponti ; Placatumq; nitet diffufo lumine cœlum." LUCRET. Lib. i. ad princip. In St. LUKE's Gospel there is an admirable inftance of this figure, Ch. xvii. Ver. 27, 28. "As it was in the days of NOAH, so shall "it be alfo in the days of the Son of Man: "They did eat, they drank; they mar"ried wives, they were given in marriage; "till the flood came and destroyed them all. "Likewise alfo as it was in the days of "LOT: they did eat, they drank, they G 3 bought, 1 "Bought, they fold, they planted, they builded, till it rained fire and brimftone "from heaven, and destroyed them all." SECTION TH XVIII. HOUGH copulatives have been reprefented to debafe a Sentiment, they fometimes heighten à Defcription, particularly where it is to be fuftained in its several gradations; for in this cafe the description pervades the mind with collected and contitinued force. The following paffage of St. PAUL, where he adds a conjunction to every fentence, will ferve to evince the truth of the affertion. "What shall separate us from the love of "Chrift? Shall tribulation, or famine, or nakednefs, or peril, or fword?” Then, Then, in order to enforce the fentiment into the minds of his hearers, he adds farther, "I am perfuaded that neither life, nor "death, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to 66 come, nor height, nor depth, nor any "other creature, fhall be able to separate us "from the love of God." HE Hyperbaton has been usually con Tftrued "s a tranfpofition of words, in 66 "verting the natural order of a sentiment, " and calculated to defcribe the confufion "arifing from anger and impatience." But this definition feems not fo wholly to characterise the figure. I think, that the following quotations will confiftently express the real meaning of the Hyperbaton, which, in addition to the above opinion, I should be tempted G 4 |