"No nation gives greater encouragements to learning than we do; yet at the same time none are so injudicious in the application."—Goldsmith.
"There's two or three of us have seen strange sights."—Shakespeare.
The past participle should not be used for the past tense, yet the learned Byron overlooked this fact. He thus writes in the Lament of Tasso:—
"And with my years my soul begun to pant With feelings of strange tumult and soft pain."
Here is another example from Savage's Wanderer in which there is double sinning:
"From liberty each nobler science sprung, A Bacon brighten'd and a Spenser sung."
Other breaches in regard to the participles occur in the following:—
"Every book ought to be read with the same spirit and in the same manner as it is writ"—Fielding's Tom Jones.
"The Court of Augustus had not wore off the manners of the republic "—Hume's Essays.
"Moses tells us that the fountains of the earth were broke open or clove asunder."—Burnet.