2. But the comma should be omitted, when the relative clause is so closely connected with what precedes that it cannot be dropped without destroying the sense.
EXAMPLES.
1. “Men in a corner, who have the unhappiness of conversing too little with present things.”—Swift.
“The waters are nature’s storehouse, in which she locks up her wonders.”—Izaak Walton.
“He had on a coat made of that cloth called thunder-and-lightning, which, though grown too short, was much too good to be thrown away.”—Goldsmith.
2. “Althworthy here betook himself to those pleasing slumbers which a heart that hungers after goodness is apt to enjoy when thoroughly satisfied.”—Fielding.
“A man who is good for making excuses is good for nothing else.”—Dr. Franklin.
“Like Cæsar, Cortes wrote his own commentaries in the heart of the stirring scenes which form the subject of them.”—Prescott.
REMARKS.