"For those the race of Israel oft forsook Their living strength, and unfrequented left His righteous altar, bowing lowly down To bestial gods."—Milton, Paradise Lost, B. i, l. 432.
LESSON V.—FIGURES OF SYNTAX.
FIGURE IV.—ENALLAGE.
"Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself
Are much condemned to have an itching palm,
To sell and mart your offices for gold."—Shakspeare.
"Come, Philomelus; let us instant go,
O'erturn his bow'rs, and lay his castle low."—Thomson.
"Then palaces shall rise; the joyful son
Shall finish what the short-liv'd sire begun"—Pope.
"Such was that temple built by Solomon,
Than whom none richer reign'd o'er Israel."—Author.
"He spoke: with fatal eagerness we burn,
And quit the shores, undestin'd to return."—Day.
"Still as he pass'd, the nations he sublimes."—Thomson.
"Sometimes, with early morn, he mounted gay."—Id.