Could Johnson have had less prejudice, Addison more profundity, or Dryden more time, they would have been well qualified for the arduous office of a critic.
The Germans do not appear so vivacious, nor the Turks so energetic, as to afford triumphant demonstrations in behalf of the sacred weed.
The boat was tight, the day fine, the bait tempting, and the fishes hungry.
26. A short quotation, a remarkable expression, or a short observation somewhat in manner of a quotation, is set off by the comma.
Plutarch calls lying, the vice of slaves.
It hurts a man’s pride to say, I do not know.
Cicero observed to a degenerate patrician, “I am the first of my family, but you are the last of yours.”
An upright minister asks, what recommends a man; a corrupt minister, who.
There is an old poet who has said, “No deity is absent, if prudence is with thee.”
They tell me here, that people frequent the theater to be instructed as well as amused.