EXAMPLES.
“Raptures, transports, and extasies are the rewards which they confer: sighs and tears, prayers and broken hearts, are the offerings which are paid to them.” Addison, Ibid.
“Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust;
Whose attributes were rage, revenge, or lust.”
Pope.
“What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion?”
A member of a Sentence, whether Simple or Compounded, that requires a greater pause than a Comma, yet does not of itself make a compleat Sentence, but is followed by something closely depending on it, may be distinguished by a Semicolon.