What would become of the pauses at the third syllable followed by an _and_, or any such word, without the rest which a comma, when consistent with the sense, calls upon the reader to make, and which being made, he starts with the weak syllable that follows, as from the beginning of a verse?
I am sure Milton would have supported me in this opinion.

Thomson wrote his blank verse before his ear was formed as it was when he wrote the 'Castle of Indolence,' and some of his short rhyme poems.

It was, therefore, rather hard in you to select him as an instance of punctuation abused.

I am glad that you concur in my view on the _Punishment of Death_.

An outcry, as I expected, has been raised against me by weak-minded humanitarians.