"A ministering angel thou."—Scott.
"A cruel sister she."—Mallet.
[71] The effect of this Tense in narration seems to be very nearly, if not precisely, the same with that of the Present of the Infinitive in Latin; as in these passages:
"——misere discedere quaerens,
Ire modo ocius; interdum consistere; in aurem
Dicere nescio quid puero."—Hor. Sat. 1. 8. v. 9.
"At Danaum proceres, Agamemnoniæque phalanges
Ingenti trepidare metu; pars vertere terga,
Ceu quondam petiêre rates; pars tollere vocem."—Æneid. VI. 492.
"——nihil illi tendere contra;