“Severe the doom that length of days impose,
    To stand sad witness of unnumber’d woes!”—­Melmoth.

UNDER NOTE VII.—­ADAPT FORM TO STYLE.

1. Forms not proper for the Common or Familiar Style.

“Was it thou that buildedst that house?”—­Inst., p. 151.  “That boy writeth very elegantly.”—­Ib. “Couldest not thou write without blotting thy book?”—­Ib. “Thinkest thou not it will rain to-day?”—­Ib. “Doth not your cousin intend to visit you?”—­Ib. “That boy hath torn my book.”—­Ib. “Was it thou that spreadest the hay?”—­Ib. “Was it James, or thou, that didst let him in?”—­Ib. “He dareth not say a word.”—­Ib. “Thou stoodest in my way and hinderedst me.”—­Ib.

“Whom see I?—­Whom seest thou now?—­Whom sees he?—­Whom lovest thou most?—­What dost thou to-day?—­What person seest thou teaching that boy?—­He hath two new knives.—­Which road takest thou?—­What child teaches he?”—­Ingersoll’s Gram., p. 66.  “Thou, who makest my shoes, sellest many more.”—­Ib., p. 67.

“The English language hath been much cultivated during the last two hundred years.  It hath been considerably polished and refined.”—­Lowth’s Gram., Pref., p. iii.  “This stile is ostentatious, and doth not suit grave writing.”—­Priestley’s Gram., p. 82.  “But custom hath now appropriated who to persons, and which to things.”—­Ib., p. 97.  “The indicative mood sheweth or declareth; as, Ego amo, I love:  or else asketh a question; as, Amas tu?  Dost thou love?”—­Paul’s Accidence, Ed. of 1793, p. 16.  “Though thou canst not do much for the cause, thou mayst and shouldst do something.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 143.  “The support of so many of his relations, was a heavy task; but thou knowest he paid it cheerfully.”—­Murray’s Key, R. 1, p. 180.  “It may, and often doth, come short of it.”—­Campbell’s Rhetoric, p. 160.

   “’Twas thou, who, while thou seem’dst to chide,
    To give me all thy pittance tried.”—­Mitford’s Blanch, p. 78.

2. Forms not proper for the Solemn or Biblical Style.

“The Lord has prepaid his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom rules over all.”—­See Key.  “Thou answer’d them, O Lord our God:  thou was a God that forgave them, though thou took vengeance of their inventions.”—­See Key.  “Then thou spoke in vision to thy Holy One, and said, I have laid help upon one that is mighty.”—­See Key.  “So then, it is not of him that wills, nor of him that rules, but of God that shows mercy; who dispenses his blessings, whether temporal or spiritual, as seems good in his sight.”—­See Key.

   “Thou, the mean while, was blending with my thought;
    Yea, with my life, and life’s own secret joy.”—­Coleridge.