"I ax'd you what you had to sell. I am fitting out a wessel for Wenice, loading her with warious keinds of prowisions, and wittualling her for a long woyage; and I want several undred weight of weal, wenison, &c., with plenty of inyons and winegar, for the preserwation of ealth."—Columbian Orator, p. 292.
"God bless you, and lie still quiet (says I) a bit longer, for my shister's afraid of ghosts, and would die on the spot with the fright, was she to see you come to life all on a sudden this way without the least preparation."—Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent, p. 143.
"None [else are] so desperately evill, as they that may bee good and will not: or have beene good and are not."—Rev. John Rogers, 1620. "A Carpenter finds his work as hee left it, but a Minister shall find his sett back. You need preach continually."—Id.
"Here whilom ligg'd th' Esopus of his age,
But call'd by Fame, in soul ypricked deep."—Thomson.
"It was a fountain of Nepenthe rare,
Whence, as Dan Homer sings, huge pleasaunce grew."—Id.
LESSON II.—FIGURES OF ETYMOLOGY.
APHÆRESIS, PROSTHESIS, SYNCOPE, APOCOPE, PARAGOGE, DIÆRESIS, SYNÆRESIS, AND TMESIS.
"Bend 'gainst the steepy hill thy breast,
Burst down like torrent from its crest."—Scott.
"'Tis mine to teach th' inactive hand to reap
Kind nature's bounties, o'er the globe diffus'd."—Dyer.
"Alas! alas! how impotently true
Th' aërial pencil forms the scene anew."—Cawthorne.