“Thy drowsy nurse hath sworn she did them spy
    Come tripping to the room where thou didst lie.”—­Milton.

------“Nor with less dread the loud
Ethereal trumpet from on high ’gan blow.”—­Id., P. L., vi, 60.

OBS. 18.—­After have, help, and find, the infinitive sometimes occurs without the preposition to, but much oftener with it; as, “When enumerating objects which we wish to have appear distinct.”—­Kirkham’s Gram., p. 222.  “Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man’s mind move in charity, rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.”—­Ld.  Bacon.  “What wilt thou have me to do?”—­Acts, ix, 6.  “He will have us to acknowledge him.”—­Scougal, p. 102.  “I had to walk all the way.”—­Lennie’s Gram., p. 85.  “Would you have them let go then?  No.”—­Walker’s Particles, p. 248.  According to Allen’s rule, this question is ambiguous; but the learned author explains it in Latin thus:  “Placet igitur eos dimitti?  Minime.”  That is, “Would you have them dismissed then?  No.”  Had he meant, “Would you have them to let go then?” he would doubtless have said so.  Kirkham, by adding help to Murray’s list, enumerates nine verbs which he will have to exclude the sign of the infinitive; as, “Help me do it.”—­Gram., p. 188.  But good writers sometimes use the particle to after this verb; as, “And Danby’s matchless impudence helped to support the knave.”—­DRYDEN:  Joh.  Dict., w.  Help.  Dr. Priestley says, “It must, I suppose, be according to the Scotch idiom that Mrs. Macaulay omits it after the verb help:  ’To help carry on the new measures of the court.’ History, Vol. iv, p. 150.”—­Priestley’s Gram., p. 133.  “You will find the difficulty disappear in a short time.”—­Cobbett’s English Gram., 16.  “We shall always find this distinction obtain.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 245.  Here the preposition to might have been inserted with propriety.  Without it, a plural noun will render the construction equivocal.  The sentence, “You will find the difficulties disappear in a short time,” will probably be understood to mean, “You will find that the difficulties disappear in a short time.”  “I do not find him reject his authority.”—­Johnson’s Gram.  Com., p. 167.  Here too the preposition might as well have been inserted.  But, as this use of the infinitive is a sort of Latinism, some critics would choose to say, “I do not find that he rejects his authority.”  “Cyrus was extremely glad to find them have such sentiments of religion.”—­Rollin, ii, 117.  Here the infinitive may be varied either by the participle or by the indicative; as, “to find them having,” or, “to find they had.”  Of the three expressions, the last, I think, is rather the best.