“Great eldest-born of Dullness, blind and bold! Tyrant! more cruel than Procrustes old; Who, to his iron bed, by torture, fits, Their nobler part, the souls of suffering wits.”—­Mallet.

    “Parthenia, rise.—­What voice alarms my ear?
    Away.  Approach not.  Hah! Alexis there!”—­Gay.

    “Nor is it harsh to make, nor hard to find
    A country with—­ay, or without mankind.”—­Byron.

    “A frame of adamant, a soul of fire,
    No dangers fright him, and no labours tire.”—­Johnson.

    “Now pall the tasteless meats, and joyless wines,
    And luxury with sighs her slave resigns.”—­Id.

    “Seems? madam; nay, it is:  I know not seems—­
    For I have that within which passes show.”—­Hamlet.

    “Return? said Hector, fir’d with stern disdain: 
    What! coop whole armies in our walls again?”—­Pope.

    “He whom the fortune of the field shall cast
    From forth his chariot, mount the next in haste.”—­Id.

    “Yet here, Laertes? aboard, aboard, for shame!”—­Shak.

    “Justice, most gracious Duke; O grant me justice!”—­Id.

    “But what a vengeance makes thee fly
    From me too, as thine enemy?”—­Butler.

    “Immortal Peter! first of monarchs!  He
    His stubborn country tam’d, her rocks, her fens,
    Her floods, her seas, her ill-submitting sons.”—­Thomson.

“O arrogance!  Thou liest, thou thread, thou thimble,
Thou yard, three-quarters, half-yard, quarter, nail,
Thou flea, thou nit, thou winter-cricket, thou:—­
Brav’d in mine own house with a skein of thread! 
Away, thou rag, thou quantity, thou remnant;
Or I shall so be-mete thee with thy yard,
As thou shalt think on prating whilst thou liv’st.” 

              SHAK.:  Taming of the Shrew, Act IV, Sc 3.

CHAPTER XII.—­GENERAL REVIEW.

This twelfth chapter of Syntax is devoted to a series of lessons, methodically digested, wherein are reviewed and reapplied, mostly in the order of the parts of speech, all those syntactical principles heretofore given which are useful for the correction of errors.

IMPROPRIETIES FOR CORRECTION.

FALSE SYNTAX FOR A GENERAL REVIEW.