To further this, Achit_ophel_ unites The malcontents of all the Israelites, Whose differing par_ties he_ could wisely join For several ends to serve the same design; The best (_and of_ the princes some were such) Who thought the power of mon_archy_ too much; Mistaken men and patr_iots in_ their hearts, Not wick_ed, but_ seduced by impious arts; By these the springs of prop_erty_ were bent, And wound so high they crack'd the gov_ernment_. (DRYDEN: _Absalom and Achitophel_, I.) _Excess of accent (substituted spondee)._ And ten _low words_ oft creep in one _dull line_. (POPE: _Essay on Criticism._) _Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens_, and shades of death. (MILTON: _Paradise Lost_, II. 621.) _See, see_ where Christ's _blood streams_ in the firmament! (MARLOWE: _Faustus_, sc. xvi.) O great, _just, good God! Mis_erable me! (BROWNING: _The Ring and the Book_, VI.) A tree's _head snaps_--and there, _there, there, there, there_! (BROWNING: _Caliban upon Setebos._) _Inversion of accent (substituted trochee)._ Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death, _Gorged with_ the dearest morsel of the earth. (SHAKSPERE: _Romeo and Juliet_, V. iii. 45 f.) Finds tongues in trees, _books in_ the running brooks, _Sermons_ in stones, and good in every thing. (_As You Like It_, II. i. 16 f.) The watery kingdom whose ambitious head _Spits in_ the face of heaven. (_Merchant of Venice_, II. vii. 44 f.) Long lines of cliff _breaking_ have left a chasm. (TENNYSON: _Enoch Arden._) There whirled her white robe like a blossomed branch _Rapt to_ the horrible fall: a glance I gave, No more; but woman-vested as I was _Plunged; and_ the flood _drew; yet_ I caught her; then _Oaring_ one arm,... (TENNYSON: _The Princess._) _Stabbed through_ the heart's affections to the heart! _Seethed like_ a kid in its own mother's milk! _Killed with_ a word worse than a life of blows! (TENNYSON: _Merlin and Vivien._) He flowed _Right for_ the polar star, past Orgunje, _Brimming_, and bright, and large; then sands begin,... (MATTHEW ARNOLD: _Sohrab and Rustum._) _Hypermetrical syllable (substituted anapest)._ _Let me see, let me see_, is not the leaf turn'd down? (SHAKSPERE: _Julius Cæsar_, IV. iii. 271.) Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hug_est that swim_ the ocean stream. (MILTON: _Paradise Lost_, I. 201 f.) This passage was one of those where Bentley made himself ridiculous in his edition of Milton. "To smooth it" he changed the lines to read-- "Leviathan, whom God the vastest made Of all the kinds that swim the ocean stream,"-- not perceiving, what Cowper pointed out, that Milton had designedly used "the word _hugest_ where it may have the clumsiest effect.... Smoothness was not the thing to be consulted when the Leviathan was in question."