“On me to cast those eyes
where shine nobility.”
—SIDNEY:
Joh. Dict.
“Here’s half-pence
in plenty, for one you’ll have twenty.”
—Swift’s
Poems, p. 347.
“Ah, Jockey, ill advises
thou, I wis,
To think of songs at such
a time as this.”
—Churchill,
p. 18.
UNDER NOTE I.—THE RELATIVE AND VERB.
“Thou who loves us, wilt protect us still.”—Alex. Murray’s Gram., p. 67. “To use that endearing language, Our Father, who is in heaven”—Bates’s Doctrines, p. 103. “Resembling the passions that produceth these actions.”—Kames, El. of Crit., i, 157. “Except dwarf, grief, hoof, muff, &c. which takes s to make the plural.”—Ash’s Gram., p. 19. “As the cattle that goeth before me and the children be able to endure.”— Gen. xxxiii, 14 “Where is the man who dare affirm that such an action is mad?”—Werter. “The ninth book of Livy affords one of the most beautiful exemplifications of historical painting, that is any where to be met with.”—Blair’s Rhet., p. 360. “In some studies too, that relate to taste and fine writing, which is our object,” &c.—Ib., p. 349. “Of those affecting situations, which makes man’s heart feel for man.”—Ib., p. 464. “We see very plainly, that it is neither Osmyn, nor Jane Shore, that speak.”—Ib., p. 468. “It should assume that briskness and ease, which is suited to the freedom of dialogue.”—Ib., p. 469. “Yet they grant, that none ought to be admitted into the ministry, but such as is truly pious.”—Barclay’s Works, iii, 147. “This letter is one of the best that has been written about Lord Byron.”—Hunt’s Byron, p. 119. “Thus, besides what was sunk, the Athenians took above two hundred ships.”—Goldsmith’s Greece, i, 102. “To have made and declared such orders as was necessary.”—Hutchinson’s Hist., i, 470. “The idea of such a collection of men as make an army.”—Locke’s Essay, p. 217. “I’m not the first that have been wretched.”—Southern’s In. Ad., Act 2. “And the faint sparks of it, which is in the angels, are concealed from our view.”—Calvin’s Institutes, B. i, Ch. 11. “The subjects are of such a nature, as allow room for much diversity of taste and sentiment.”—Blair’s Rhet., Pref., p. 5. “It is in order to propose examples of such perfection, as are not to be found in the real examples of society.”—Formey’s Belles-Lettres, p. 16. “I do not believe that he would amuse himself with such fooleries as has been attributed to him.”—Ib., p. 218. “That shepherd, who first taughtst the chosen seed.”—O. B. Peirce’s Gram., p. 238. “With respect to the vehemence and warmth which is allowed in popular eloquence.”— Blair’s Rhet., p. 261. “Ambition is one of those passions that is never to be satisfied.”—Home’s Art of Thinking, p. 36. “Thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel.”—2 Samuel, v, 2; and 1 Chron., xi, 2. “Art thou the man of God that camest from Judah?”—1 Kings, xiii, 14.