Meaning of “I most potently believe that the very best…”

The Elements of Style, Chapter III, Rule 16, Project Gutenberg #37134; the following examples focus on avoiding misplaced modifiers and broken relationships.

An Epistle from Mr. Pope to Dr. Arbuthnot (1735 first-edition scan), printed page 7 / scan leaf 13, lines 128–131. Pope explains that the Muse helped him endure “this long Disease, my Life” and addresses his physician-friend Arbuthnot directly. The frozen catalog lowercases “disease”; this is witness capitalization only. The passage is autobiographical-satirical verse, not medical guidance about illness or resilience.

The Elements of Style, Chapter III, Rule 18, Project Gutenberg #37134; the principle is extended to sentences in paragraphs and paragraphs in compositions.

Poem commonly titled “A Book,” later known by its opening line; first two lines of the poem.

A Defence of Poetry, written 1821 and first published posthumously in 1840; Wikisource transcription. This is the essay’s concluding sentence and summarizes Shelley’s historical literary theory about poetry’s indirect cultural and political influence, not literal legislative authority.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act V, Scene 1; Theseus skeptically groups the lunatic, lover and poet through imagination. Verified in the scan-backed 1918 Yale Shakespeare edition edited by Willard Higley Durham; direct evidence resolves to the reviewed Act V transcription.