“I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows,
    Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows.”—­Beaut. of Shak., p. 51.

LESSON VI.—­VERBS.

“Whose business or profession prevent their attendance in the morning.”—­Ogilby.  “And no church or officer have power over one another.”—­LECHFORD:  in Hutchinson’s Hist., i, 373.  “While neither reason nor experience are sufficiently matured to protect them.”—­Woodbridge.  “Among the Greeks and Romans, every syllable, or the far greatest number at least, was known to have a fixed and determined quantity.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 383.  “Among the Greeks and Romans, every syllable, or at least by far the greatest number of syllables, was known to have a fixed and determined quantity.”—­Jamieson’s Rhet., p. 303.  “Their vanity is awakened and their passions exalted by the irritation, which their self-love receives from contradiction.”—­Influence of Literature, Vol. ii. p. 218.  “I and he was neither of us any great swimmer.”—­Anon.  “Virtue, honour, nay, even self-interest, conspire to recommend the measure.”—­Murray’s Gram., Vol. i, p. 150.  “A correct plainness, and elegant simplicity, is the proper character of an introduction.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 308.  “In syntax there is what grammarians call concord or agreement, and government.”—­Infant School Gram., p. 128.  “People find themselves able without much study to write and speak the English intelligibly, and thus have been led to think rules of no utility.”—­ Webster’s Essays, p. 6.  “But the writer must be one who has studied to inform himself well, who has pondered his subject with care, and addresses himself to our judgment, rather than to our imagination.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 353.  “But practice hath determined it otherwise; and has, in all the languages with which we are much acquainted, supplied the place of an interrogative mode, either by particles of interrogation, or by a peculiar order of the words in the sentence.”—­Lowth’s Gram., p. 84.  “If the Lord have stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering.”—­1 Sam., xxvi, 19.  “But if the priest’s daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father’s house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father’s meat.”—­Levit., xxii, 13.  “Since we never have, nor ever shall study your sublime productions.”—­Neef’s Sketch, p. 62.  “Enabling us to form more distinct images of objects, than can be done with the utmost attention where these particulars are not found.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., Vol. i, p. 174.  “I hope you will consider what is spoke comes from my love.”—­Shak., Othello.  “We will then perceive how the designs of emphasis may be marred,”—­Rush, on the Voice, p. 406.  “I knew it was Crab, and goes me to the fellow that whips the dogs.”—­SHAK: