"Who finds the partridge in the puttock's nest,
But may imagine how the bird was killed?"
—Shak. cor.
"Which might have well become the best of men."
—Idem cor.
CHAPTER VII.—PARTICIPLES.
CORRECTIONS IN THE FORMS OF PARTICIPLES.
LESSON I.—IRREGULARS.
"Many of your readers have mistaken that passage."—Steele cor. "Had not my dog of a steward run away."—Addison cor. "None should be admitted, except he had broken his collarbone thrice."—Id. "We could not know what was written at twenty."—Waller cor. "I have written, thou hast written, he has written; we have written, you have written, they have written."—Ash cor. "As if God had spoken his last words there to his people."—Barclay cor. "I had like to have come in that ship myself."—Observer cor. "Our ships and vessels being driven out of the harbour by a storm."—Hutchinson cor. "He will endeavour to write as the ancient author would have written, had he written in the same language."—Bolingbroke cor. "When his doctrines grew too strong to be shaken by his enemies."—Atterbury cor. "The immortal mind that hath forsaken her mansion."—Milton cor. "Grease that's sweated (or sweat) from the murderer's gibbet, throw into the flame."—Shak. cor. "The court also was chidden (or chid) for allowing such questions to be put."—Stone cor. "He would have spoken."—Milton cor. "Words interwoven (or interweaved) with sighs found out their way."—Id. "Those kings and potentates who have strived (or striven.)"—Id. "That even Silence was taken."—Id. "And envious Darkness, ere they could return, had stolen them from me."—Id. "I have chosen this perfect man."—Id. "I shall scarcely think you have swum in a gondola."—Shak. cor. "The fragrant brier was woven (or weaved) between."—Dryden cor. "Then finish what you have begun."—Id. "But now the years a numerous train have run."—Pope cor. "Repeats your verses written (or writ) on glasses."—Prior cor. "Who by turns have risen."—Id. "Which from great authors I have taken."—Id. "Even there he should have fallen."—Id.
"The sun has ris'n, and gone to bed.
Just as if Partridge were not dead."—Swift cor.
"And, though no marriage words are spoken,
They part not till the ring is broken."—Swift cor.
LESSON II.—REGULARS.
"When the word is stripped of all the terminations."—Dr. Murray cor. "Forgive him, Tom; his head is cracked."—Swift cor. "For 'tis the sport, to have the engineer hoised (or hoisted) with his own petar."—Shak. cor. "As great as they are, I was nursed by their mother."—Swift cor. "If he should now be cried down since his change."—Id. "Dipped over head and ears—in debt."—Id. "We see the nation's credit cracked."—Id. "Because they find their pockets picked."—Id. "O what a pleasure mixed with pain!"—Id. "And only with her brother linked."—Id. "Because he ne'er a thought allowed, That might not be confessed."—Id. "My love to Sheelah is more firmly fixed."—Id. "The observations annexed to them will be intelligible."—Phil. Mus. cor. "Those eyes are always fixed on the general principles."—Id. "Laborious conjectures will be banished from our commentaries."—Id. "Tiridates was dethroned, and Phraates was reestablished, in his stead."—Id. "A Roman who was attached to Augustus."—Id. "Nor should I have spoken of it, unless Baxter had talked about two such."—Id. "And the reformers of language have generally rushed on."—Id. "Three centuries and a half had then elapsed since the date,"—Ib. "Of such criteria, as has been remarked already, there is an abundance."—Id. "The English have surpassed every other nation in their services."—Id. "The party addressed is next in dignity to the speaker."—Harris cor. "To which we are many times helped."—W. Walker cor. "But for him, I should have looked well enough to myself."—Id. "Why are you vexed, Lady? why do frown?"—Milton cor. "Obtruding false rules pranked in reason's garb."—Id. "But, like David equipped in Saul's armour, it is encumbered and oppressed."—Campbell cor.