In Heroic Verse, but especially in the grander Lyrics, there are sometimes such noble Elevations of Thought and Passion as illuminate all Things around us, and convey to the Soul most exalted and magnificent Images and sublime Sentiments: These furnish us with glorious Springs and Mediums to raise and aggrandize our Conceptions […]

But, beside vernal, æstival and autumnal, made of flowers, the ancients had also the hyemal garlands; contenting themselves at first with such as were made of horn dyed into several colours, and shaped into the figure of flowers

Logically, one should no more infer that the function of vocalizing is to signal affect than, for instance, to show that the vocalizer's laryngeal motor neurons are active.

When I was a child and she was a child, my little Annabel was no nymphet to me; I was her equal, a faunlet in my own right […]