or Joh. cor. “A young fellow, with a bob-wig and a black silken bag tied to it.”—­Spect. or Joh. cor. “I have seen enough to confute all the bold-faced atheists of this age.”—­Bramhall or Joh. cor. “Before milk-white, now purple with love’s wound.”—­Joh.  Dict., w.  Bolt.  “For what else is a red-hot iron than fire? and what else is a burning coal than red-hot wood?”—­Newton or Joh. cor. “Poll-evil is a large swelling, inflammation, or imposthume, in the horse’s poll, or nape of the neck, just between the ears.”—­Far. or Joh. cor.

   “Quick-witted, brazen-fac’d, with fluent tongues,
    Patient of labours, and dissembling wrongs.”—­Dryden cor.

RULE VI.—­NO HYPHEN.

“From his fond parent’s eye a teardrop fell.”—­Snelling cor. “How great, poor jackdaw, would thy sufferings be!”—­Id. “Placed, like a scarecrow in a field of corn.”—­Id. “Soup for the almshouse at a cent a quart.”—­Id. “Up into the watchtower get, and see all things despoiled of fallacies.”—­Donne or Joh. cor. “In the daytime she [Fame] sitteth in a watchtower, and flieth most by night.”—­Bacon or Joh. cor. “The moral is the first business of the poet, as being the groundwork of his instruction.”—­Dryd. or Joh. cor. “Madam’s own hand the mousetrap baited.”—­Prior or Joh. cor. “By the sinking of the airshaft, the air has liberty to circulate.”—­Ray or Joh. cor. “The multiform and amazing operations of the airpump and the loadstone.”—­Watts or Joh. cor. “Many of the firearms are named from animals.”—­Johnson cor. “You might have trussed him and all his apparel into an eelskin”—­Shak. or Joh. cor. “They may serve as landmarks, to show what lies in the direct way of truth.”—­Locke or Joh. cor. “A packhorse is driven constantly in a narrow lane and dirty road.”—­Locke or Joh. cor. “A millhorse, still bound to go in one circle.”—­Sidney or Joh. cor. “Of singing birds, they have linnets, goldfinches, ruddocks, Canary birds, blackbirds, thrushes, and divers others.”—­Carew or Joh. cor. “Cartridge, a case of paper or parchment filled with gunpowder; [or, rather, containing the entire charge of a gun].”—­Joh. cor.

   “Deep night, dark night, the silent of the night,
    The time of night when Troy was set on fire,
    The time when screechowls cry, and bandogs howl.” 
        SHAKSPEARE:  in Johnson’s Dict., w.  Screechowl.

PROMISCUOUS CORRECTIONS IN THE FIGURE OF WORDS.