2. "Of a horse, ware the heels; of a bull-dog, the jaws;
Of a bear, the embrace; of a lion, the paws."
—Churchills Cram., p. 215.
XXVIII. Some few verbs they abbreviate: as list, for listen; ope, for open; hark, for hearken; dark, for darken; threat, for threaten; sharp, for sharpen.
XXIX. They employ several verbs that are not used in prose, or are used but rarely; as, appal, astound, brook, cower, doff, ken, wend, ween, trow.
XXX. They sometimes imitate a Greek construction of the infinitive; as,
1. "Who would not sing for Lycidas? he knew
Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme."
—Milton.
2. "For not, to have been dipp'd in Lethè lake,
Could save the son of Thetis from to die."
—Spenser.
XXXI. They employ the PARTICIPLES more frequently than prose writers, and in a construction somewhat peculiar; often intensive by accumulation: as,
1. "He came, and, standing in the midst, explain'd
The peace rejected, but the truce obtain'd."
—Pope.
2. "As a poor miserable captive thrall
Comes to the place where he before had sat
Among the prime in splendor, now depos'd,
Ejected, emptied, gaz'd, unpitied, shunn'd,
A spectacle of ruin or of scorn."
—Milton, P. R., B. i, l. 411.
3. "Though from our birth the faculty divine
Is chain'd and tortured—cabin'd, cribb'd, confined."
—Byron, Pilg., C. iv, St. 127.