“Thou bow’dst
thy glorious head to none, fear’dst none.”
Or:—
“Thou bowed thy
glorious head to none, feared none.”
—Pollok
cor.
“Thou lookst
upon thy boy as though thou guess’d it.”
—Knowles
cor.
“As once thou slept,
while she to life was formed.”
—Milton
cor.
“Who finds the partridge
in the puttock’s nest,
But may imagine how the bird
was killed?”
—Shak.
cor.
“Which might have well
become the best of men.”
—Idem
cor.
CHAPTER VII.—PARTICIPLES.
CORRECTIONS IN THE FORMS OF PARTICIPLES.
LESSON I.—IRREGULARS.
“Many of your readers have mistaken that passage.”—Steele cor. “Had not my dog of a steward run away.”—Addison cor. “None should be admitted, except he had broken his collarbone thrice.”—Id. “We could not know what was written at twenty.”—Waller cor. “I have written, thou hast written, he has written; we have written, you have written, they have written.”—Ash cor. “As if God had spoken his last words there to his people.”—Barclay cor. “I had like to have come in that ship myself.”—Observer cor. “Our ships and vessels being driven out of the harbour by a storm.”—Hutchinson cor. “He will endeavour to write as the ancient author would have written, had he written in the same language.”—Bolingbroke cor. “When his doctrines grew too strong to be shaken by his enemies.”—Atterbury cor. “The immortal mind that hath forsaken her mansion.”—Milton cor. “Grease that’s sweated (or sweat) from the murderer’s gibbet, throw into the flame.”—Shak. cor. “The court also was chidden (or chid) for allowing such questions to be put.”—Stone cor. “He would have spoken.”—Milton cor. “Words interwoven (or interweaved) with sighs found out their way.”—Id. “Those kings and potentates who have strived (or striven.)”—Id. “That even Silence was taken.”—Id. “And envious Darkness, ere they could return, had stolen them from me.”—Id. “I have chosen this perfect man.”—Id. “I shall scarcely think you have swum in a gondola.”—Shak. cor. “The fragrant brier was woven (or weaved) between.”—Dryden cor. “Then finish what you have begun.”—Id. “But now the years a numerous train have run.”—Pope cor. “Repeats your verses written (or writ) on glasses.”—Prior cor. “Who by turns have risen.”—Id. “Which from great authors I have taken.”—Id. “Even there he should have fallen.”—Id.