"Of old thou build'st thy throne on righteousness."
—Pollok's C. of T., B. vi, l. 638.
"For though thou work'dst my mother's ill."
—Byron's Parasina.
"Thou thyself doat'dst on womankind, admiring."
—Milton's P. R., B. ii, l. 175.
"But he, the sev'nth from thee, whom thou beheldst."
—Id., P. L., B. xi, l. 700.
"Shall build a wondrous ark, as thou beheldst."
—Id., ib., B. xi, l. 819.
"Thou, who inform'd'st this clay with active fire!"
—Savage's Poems, p. 247.
"Thy valiantness was mine, thou suck'dst it from me."
—Shak., Coriol., Act iii.
"This cloth thou dipp'dst in blood of my sweet boy."
—Id., Henry VI, P. i.
"Great Queen of arms, whose favour Tydeus won;
As thou defend'st the sire, defend the son."
—Pope, Iliad, B. x, l. 337.
OBS. 16.—Dr. Lowth, whose popular little Grammar was written in or about 1758, made no scruple to hem up both the poets and the Friends at once, by a criticism which I must needs consider more dogmatical than true; and which, from the suppression of what is least objectionable in it, has become, her hands, the source of still greater errors: "Thou in the polite, and even in the familiar style, is disused, and the plural you is employed instead of it; we say, you have, not thou hast. Though in this case, we apply you to a single person, yet the verb too must agree with it in the plural number; it must necessarily be, you have, not you hast. You was is an enormous solecism,[245] and yet authors of the first rank have inadvertently fallen into it. * * * On the contrary, the solemn style admits not of you for a single person. This hath led Mr. Pope into a great impropriety in the beginning of his Messiah:—