I am transported with the desire of seeing the industrious fleas.
Gerunds.
“When Dido found Æneas would not come,
She mourned in silence, and was Di-do-dum.”
Gerunds in di have the same construction as genitive cases, and depend both on certain substantives and adjectives, as
Londinensem innatus amor civem urget edendi:
An innate love of eating excites the London citizen.
People are accustomed to utter a great deal of cant about the intellectual poverty of civic magistrates, and common councilmen in general; but it must be allowed that those respectable individuals have often a great deal in them.
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