4. Not merely to the soldier are these campaigns interesting —Bayne.
5. How charming is divine philosophy!—Milton.
Forms of the participle.
264. Participles, in expressing action, may be active or passive, incomplete (or imperfect), complete (perfect or past), and perfect definite.
They cannot be divided into tenses (present, past, etc.), because they have no tense of their own, but derive their tense from the verb on which they depend; for example,—
1. He walked conscientiously through the services of the day, fulfilling every section the minutest, etc.—De Quincey.
Fulfilling has the form to denote continuance, but depends on the verb walked, which is past tense.
2.
Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger,
Comes dancing from the East.
—Milton.
Dancing here depends on a verb in the present tense.