"And when their merchants are blown up, and cracked,
Whole towns are cast away in storms, and wrecked."—Butler cor.
LESSON III.—MIXED EXAMPLES.
"The lands are held in free and common soccage."—Trumbull cor. "A stroke is drawn under such words."—Cobbett's Gr., 1st Ed. "It is struck even, with a strickle."—W. Walker cor. "Whilst I was wandering, without any care, beyond my bounds."—Id. "When one would do something, unless hindered by something present."—B. Johnson cor. "It is used potentially, but not so as to be rendered by these signs."—Id. "Now who would dote upon things hurried down the stream thus fast?"—Collier cor. "Heaven hath timely tried their growth."—Milton cor. "O! ye mistook, ye should have snatched his wand."—Id. "Of true virgin here distressed."—Id. "So that they have at last come to be substituted in the stead of it."—Barclay cor. "Though ye have lain among the pots."—Bible cor. "And, lo! in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off."—Scott's Bible, and Alger's. "Brutus and Cassius Have ridden, (or rode,) like madmen, through the gates of Rome."—Shak. cor. "He shall be spit upon."—Bible cor. "And are not the countries so overflowed still situated between the tropics?"—Bentley. "Not tricked and frounced as she was wont, But kerchiefed in a comely cloud."—Milton cor. "To satisfy his rigour, Satisfied never."—Id. "With him there crucified."—Id. "Th' earth cumbered, and the wing'd air darked with plumes."—Id. "And now their way to Earth they had descried."—Id. "Not so thick swarmed once the soil Bedropped with blood of Gorgon."—Id. "And in a troubled sea of passion tossed."—Id. "The cause, alas! is quickly guessed."—Swift cor. "The kettle to the top was hoised, or hoisted."—Id. "In chains thy syllables are linked."—Id. "Rather than thus be overtopped, Would you not wish their laurels cropped."—Id. "The HYPHEN, or CONJOINER, is a little line drawn to connect words, or parts of words."—Cobbett cor. "In the other manners of dependence, this general rule is sometimes broken."—R. Johnson cor. "Some intransitive verbs may be rendered transitive by means of a preposition prefixed to them."—Grant cor. "Whoever now should place the accent on the first syllable of Valerius, would set every body a laughing."—J. Walker cor. "Being mocked, scourged, spit upon, and crucified."—Gurney cor.
"For rhyme in Greece or Rome was never known,
Till barb'rous hordes those states had overthrown."—Roscommon cor.
"In my own Thames may I be drowned,
If e'er I stoop beneath the crowned." Or thus:—
"In my own Thames may I be drown'd dead,
If e'er I stoop beneath a crown'd head."—Swift cor.
CHAPTER VIII.—ADVERBS.
CORRECTIONS RESPECTING THE FORMS OF ADVERBS.
"We can much more easily form the conception of a fierce combat."—Blair corrected. "When he was restored agreeably to the treaty, he was a perfect savage."—Webster cor. "How I shall acquit myself suitably to the importance of the trial."—Duncan cor. "Can any thing show your Holiness how unworthily you treat mankind?"—Spect. cor. "In what other, consistently with reason and common sense, can you go about to explain it to him?"—Lowth cor. "Agreeably to this rule, the short vowel Sheva has two characters."—Wilson cor. "We shall give a remarkably fine example of this figure."—See Blair's Rhet., p. 156. "All of which is most abominably false."—Barclay cor. "He heaped up great riches, but passed his time miserably."—Murray cor. "He is never satisfied with expressing any thing clearly and simply."—Dr. Blair cor. "Attentive only to exhibit his ideas clearly and exactly, he appears dry."—Id. "Such words as have the most liquids and vowels, glide the most softly." Or: "Where liquids and vowels most abound, the utterance is softest."—Id. "The simplest points, such as are most easily apprehended."—Id. "Too historical to be accounted a perfectly regular epic poem."—Id. "Putting after them the oblique case, agreeably to the French construction."—Priestley cor. "Where the train proceeds with an extremely slow pace."—Kames cor. "So as scarcely to give an appearance of succession."—Id. "That concord between sound and sense, which is perceived in some expressions, independently of artful pronunciation."—Id. "Cornaro had become very corpulent, previously to the adoption of his temperate habits."—Hitchcock cor. "Bread, which is a solid, and tolerably hard, substance."—Day cor. "To command every body that was not dressed as finely as himself."—Id. "Many of them have scarcely outlived their authors."—J. Ward cor. "Their labour, indeed, did not penetrate very deeply."—Wilson cor. "The people are miserably poor, and subsist on fish."—Hume cor. "A scale, which I took great pains, some years ago, to make."—Bucke cor. "There is no truth on earth better established than the truth of the Bible."—Taylor cor. "I know of no work more wanted than the one which Mr. Taylor has now furnished."—Dr. Nott cor. "And therefore their requests are unfrequent and reasonable."—Taylor cor. "Questions are more easily proposed, than answered rightly."—Dillwyn cor. "Often reflect on the advantages you possess, and on the source from which they are all derived."—Murray cor. "If there be no special rule which requires it to be put further forward."—Milnes cor. "The masculine and the neuter have the same dialect in all the numbers, especially when they end alike."—Id.
"And children are more busy in their play
Than those that wiseliest pass their time away."—Butler cor.