“Down from his neck, with blazing gems array’d,
    Thy image, lovely Anna! hung portray’d,
    Th’ unconscious figure, smiling all serene,
    Suspended in a golden chain was seen,”—­S.  Barrett’s E. Gr., p. 92.

UNDER RULE II.—­ALLIED SENTENCES.

“This life is a mere prelude to another, which has no limits, it is a little portion of duration.  As death leaves us, so the day of judgment will find us.”—­Merchant’s School Gram., p. 76.

[FORMULE.—­Not proper, because the pause after limits, which is sufficient for the period, is marked only by the comma.  But, according to Rule 2d, “The period is often employed between two sentences which have a general connexion, expressed by a personal pronoun, a conjunction, or a conjunctive adverb.”  It would improve the passage, to omit the first comma, change the second to a period, and write the pronoun it with a capital. Judgment also might be bettered with an e, and another is properly two words.]

“He went from Boston to New York; he went from Boston; he went to New York; in walking across the floor, he stumbled over a chair.”—­Goldsbury’s Manual of E. Gram., p. 62.

“I saw him on the spot, going along the road, looking towards the house; during the heat of the day, he sat on the ground, under the shade of a tree.”—­Id., ib.

“George came home, I saw him yesterday, here; the word him, can extend only to the individual George”—­S.  Barrett’s E. Gram., 10th Ed., p. 45.

“Commas are often used now, where parentheses were formerly; I cannot, however, esteem this an improvement.”—­See the Key.

   “Thou, like a sleeping, faithless sentinel
    Didst let them pass unnoticed, unimproved,
    And know, for that thou slumb’rest on the guard,
    Thou shalt be made to answer at the bar
    For every fugitive.”
        —­Hallock’s Gram., p. 222; Enfield’s Sp., p. 380.

UNDER RULE III.—­OF ABBREVIATIONS.

“The term pronoun (Lat pronomen) strictly means a word used for, or instead of a noun.”—­Bullions, E. Gram., p. 198.

[FORMULE.—­Not proper, because the syllable here put for the word Latin, is not marked with a period.  But, according to Rule 3d, “The period is generally used after abbreviations, and very often to the exclusion of other points; but, as in this case it is not a constant sign of pause, other points may properly follow it, if the words written in full would demand them.”  In this instance, a period should mark the abbreviation, and a comma be set after of.  By analogy, in stead is also more properly two words than one.]

“The period is also used after abbreviations; as, A. D. P. S. G. W. Johnson.”—­Butler’s Pract.  Gram., p. 211.  “On this principle of classification, the later Greek grammarians divided words into eight classes or parts of speech, viz:  the Article, Noun, Pronoun, Verb, Participle, Adverb, Preposition, and Conjunction.”—­Bullions, E. Gram., p. 191.