Dryden, Fables.
These examples make the impropriety of placing the Adverb not before the Verb very evident.
[55] “Did he not fear the Lord, and besought the Lord, and the Lord repented him of the evil, which he had pronounced against them?” Jer. xxvi. 19. Here the Interrogative and Explicative forms are confounded. It ought to be, “Did he not fear the Lord, and beseech the Lord? and did not the Lord repent him of the evil,⸺?” See likewise Matt. xviii. 12.
“For ever in this humble cell
Let Thee and I, my fair one, dwell.”
Prior.
It ought to be Me.
[57] It is not easy to give particular rules for the management of the Modes and Times of Verbs with respect to one another, so that they may be proper and consistent: nor would it be of much use; for the best rule that can be given is this very general one, To observe what the sense necessarily requires. But it may be of use to consider one or two examples, that seem faulty in these respects, and to examine where the fault lies.
“Some who the depths of eloquence have found,