of Chaucer:  he died in 1440.”—­Id. “The grammarian Varro, ’the most learned of the Romans,’[522] wrote three books when he was eighty years old.”—­Id. “John Despauter, the great grammarian of Flanders, whose works are still valued, died in 1520.”—­Id. “Nero, the emperor and tyrant of Rome, slew himself to avoid a worse death.”—­Id. “Cicero the orator, ‘the Father of his Country,’ was assassinated at the age of 64.”—­Id. “Euripides, the Greek tragedian, was born in the island of Salamis, B. C. 476.”—­Id. “I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me?”—­ALGER, ET AL.:  Ps. xlii, 9.  “Staten Island, an island of New York, nine miles below New York city.”—­Williams cor. “When the son of Atreus, king of men, and the noble Achilles first separated.”—­Coleridge cor.

   “Hermes, his patron-god, those gifts bestow’d,
    Whose shrine with weanling lambs he wont to load.”—­Pope cor.

UNDER RULE X.—­OF PERSONIFICATIONS.

“But Wisdom is justified of all her children.”—­FRIENDS’ BIBLE:  Luke, vii, 35.  “Fortune and the Church are generally put in the feminine gender:  that is, when personified.”  “Go to your Natural Religion; lay before her Mahomet and his disciples.”—­Bp.  Sherlock.  “O Death! where is thy sting?  O Grave! where is thy victory.”—­Pope:  1 Cor., xv, 55; Merchant’s Gram., p. 172.  “Ye cannot serve God and Mammon.”—­Matt., vi, 24.  “Ye cannot serve God and Mammon”—­See Luke, xvi, 13.  “This house was built as if Suspicion herself had dictated the plan.”—­Rasselas.  “Poetry distinguishes herself from Prose, by yielding to a musical law.”—­Music of Nature, p. 501.  “My beauteous deliverer thus uttered her divine instructions:  ’My name is Religion.  I am the offspring of Truth and Love, and the parent of Benevolence, Hope, and Joy.  That monster, from whose power I have freed you, is called Superstition:  she is called the child of Discontent, and her followers are Fear and Sorrow.’”—­E.  Carter.  “Neither Hope nor Fear could enter the retreats; and Habit had so absolute a power, that even Conscience, if Religion had employed her in their favour, would not have been able to force an entrance.”—­Dr. Johnson.

   “In colleges and halls in ancient days,
    There dwelt a sage called Discipline.”—­Cowper.

UNDER RULE XI.—­OF DERIVATIVES.