“Dare I to leave of humble prose the shore?”
        —­Young, p. 377.

   “Against heaven’s endless mercies pour’d, how dar’st thou to rebel?”
        —­Id., p. 380.

   “The man who dares to be a wretch, deserves still greater pain.”
        —­Id., p. 381.

OBS. 8.—­Of the verb FEEL.  This verb, in any of its tenses, may govern the infinitive without the sign to; but it does this, only when it is used transitively, and that in regard to a bodily perception:  as, “I feel it move.”—­“I felt something sting me.”  If we speak of feeling any mental affection, or if we use the verb intransitively, the infinitive that follows, requires the preposition; as, “I feel it to be my duty.”—­“I felt ashamed to ask.”—­“I feel afraid to go alone.”—­“I felt about, to find the door.”  One may say of what is painful to the body, “I feel it to be severe.”

OBS. 9.—­Of the verb HEAR.  This verb is often intransitive, but it is usually followed by an objective case when it governs the infinitive; as.  “To hear a bird sing.”—­Webster.  “You have never heard me say so.”  For this reason, I am inclined to think that those sentences in which it appears to govern the infinitive alone, are elliptical; as, “I have heard tell of such things.”—­“And I have heard say of thee, that thou canst understand a dream to interpret it.”—­Gen, xli, 15.  Such examples may be the same as.  “I have heard people tell,”—­“I have heard men say,” &c.

OBS. 10.—­Of the verb LET.  By many grammarians this verb has been erroneously called an auxiliary of the optative mood; or, as Dr. Johnson terms it, “a sign of the optative mood:”  though none deny, that it is sometimes also a principal verb.  It is, in fact, always a principal verb; because, as we now apply it, it is always transitive.  It commonly governs an objective noun or pronoun, and also an infinitive without the sign to; as, “Rise up, let us go.”—­Mark.  “Thou shalt let it rest.”—­Exodus.  But sometimes the infinitive coalesces with it more nearly than the objective, so that the latter is placed after both verbs; as, “The solution lets go the mercury.”—­Newton.  “One lets slip out of his account a good part of that duration.”—­Locke.  “Back! on your lives; let be, said he, my prey.”—­Dryden.  The phrase, let go, is sometimes spoken for, let go your hold; and let be, for let him be, let it be, &c.  In such instances, therefore, the verb let is not really intransitive.  This verb, even in the passive form, may have the infinitive after it without the preposition to; as, “Nothing is let slip.”—­Walker’s