[…] Ebenezer Cooke […] who […] had learned the knack of versifying, and ground out quires of couplets after the fashion of the day, afroth with Joves and Jupiters, aclang with jarring rhymes, and string-taut with similes stretched to the snapping-point.

Last toke is the yellowing fabric of the roach, containing the stuff that is less than tobacco.

The staves are split from the heartwood. The heartwood is composed of dead cells; it supports the tree, but no longer has any physiological purpose. The staves must follow the grain of the wood to achieve a watertight cask, so they are split rather than sawn. — L'encyclopédie du Cognac: From log to stave

He [Coleridge] establishes an opposition between Σύνταξις ῥημάτων or ῥηματική (rhematic), the art of joining words into sentences, and γραμματική (grammar), which in its derivation from γράμμα (a letter, written character) is the art of joining letters together, spelling. Or, cf CN IV 4771: Grammar [is] the scheme & instrument of connecting words significantly, the Meta-grammatic , the Doctrine of arranging words perspicuously […]