“Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear
    Compels me to disturb your season due.”—­Milton’s Lycidas.

    “Debauches and excess, though with less noise,
    As great a portion of mankind destroys.”—­Waller, p. 55.

UNDER NOTE II.—­AFFIRMATION WITH NEGATION.

“Wisdom, and not wealth, procure esteem.”—­Brown’s Inst., p. 156.  “Prudence, and not pomp, are the basis of his fame.”—­Ib. “Not fear, but labour have overcome him.”—­Ib. “The decency, and not the abstinence, make the difference.”—­Ib. “Not her beauty, but her talents attracts attention.”—­Ib. “It is her talents, and not her beauty, that attracts attention.”—­Ib. “It is her beauty, and not her talents that attract attention.”—­Ib.

   “His belly, not his brains, this impulse give: 
    He’ll grow immortal; for he cannot live.”—­Young, to Pope.

UNDER NOTE III.—­AS WELL AS, BUT, OR SAVE.

“Common sense as well as piety tell us these are proper.”—­Family Commentary, p. 64.  “For without it the critic, as well as the undertaker, ignorant of any rule, have nothing left but to abandon themselves to chance.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., i, 42.  “And accordingly hatred as well as love are extinguished by long absence.”—­Ib., i, 113.  “But at every turn the richest melody as well as the sublimest sentiments are conspicuous.”—­Ib., ii, 121.  “But it, as well as the lines immediately subsequent, defy all translation.”—­Coleridge’s Introduction, p. 96.  “But their religion, as well as their customs, and manners, were strangely misrepresented.”—­BOLINGBROKE, ON HISTORY, p. 123; Priestley’s Gram., p. 192; Murray’s Exercises, p. 47.  “But his jealous policy, as well as the fatal antipathy of Fonseca, were conspicuous.”—­Robertson’s America, i, 191.  “When their extent as well as their value were unknown.”—­Ib., ii, 138.  “The Etymology, as well as the Syntax, of the more difficult parts of speech are reserved for his attention [at a later period].”—­Parker and Fox’s E. Gram., Part i, p. 3.  “What I myself owe to him, no one but myself know.”—­See Wright’s Athens, p. 96.  “None, but thou, O mighty prince! canst avert the blow.”—­Inst., p. 156.  “Nothing, but frivolous amusements, please the indolent.”—­Ib.

   “Nought, save the gurglings of the rill, were heard.”—­G.  B.

    “All songsters, save the hooting owl, was mute.”—­G.  B.

UNDER NOTE IV.—­EACH, EVERY, OR NO.