“O Thou my voice inspire
Who touch’d Isaiah’s hallow’d lips with fire!”
The Solemnity of the Style would not admit of You for Thou in the Pronoun; nor the measure of the Verse touchedst, or didst touch, in the Verb; as it indispensably ought to be, in the one, or the other of these two forms: You who touched; or Thou who touchedst, or didst touch. Again:
“Just of thy word, in every thought sincere,
Who knew no wish but what the world might hear.”
Pope, Epitaph.
It ought to be your in the first line, or knewest in the second.
[20] This Participle represents the action as complete and finished; and, being subjoined to the Auxiliary to have, constitutes the Perfect Time: I call it therefore the Perfect Participle. The same subjoined to the Auxiliary to be, constitutes the Passive Verb; and in that state, or when used without the Auxiliary in a passive sense, is called the Passive Participle.
“Before the sun,