“Or as a moat defensive to a house
    Against the envy of less happy lands.”—­Shak. cor.

    “A dreadful quiet felt, and worse by far
    Than arms, a sullen interval of war.”—­Dryden cor.

UNDER NOTE VIII.—­ADJECTIVES CONNECTED.

“It breaks forth in its highest, most energetic, and most impassioned strain.”—­Kirkham cor. “He has fallen into the vilest and grossest sort of railing.”—­Barclay cor. “To receive that higher and more general instruction which the public affords.”—­J.  O. Taylor cor. “If the best things have the best and most perfect operations.”—­Hooker cor. “It became the plainest and most elegant, the richest and most splendid, of all languages.”—­Bucke cor. “But the principal and most frequent use of pauses, is, to mark the divisions of the sense.”—­Blair cor. “That every thing belonging to ourselves is the best and the most perfect.”—­ Clarkson cor. “And to instruct their pupils in the best and most thorough manner.”—­School Committee cor.

UNDER NOTE IX.—­ADJECTIVES SUPERADDED.

“The Father is figured out as a venerable old man.”—­Brownlee cor. “There never was exhibited an other such masterpiece of ghostly assurance.”—­Id. “After the first three sentences, the question is entirely lost.”—­Spect. cor. “The last four parts of speech are commonly called particles.”—­Al.  Murray cor. “The last two chapters will not be found deficient in this respect.”—­Todd cor. “Write upon your slates a list of the first ten nouns.”—­J.  Abbott cor. “We have a few remains of two other Greek poets in the pastoral style, Moschus and Bion.”—­Blair cor. “The first nine chapters of the book of Proverbs are highly poetical.”—­Id. “For, of these five heads, only the first two have any particular relation to the sublime.”—­Id. “The resembling sounds of the last two syllables give a ludicrous air to the whole.”—­Kames cor. “The last three are arbitrary.”—­Id. “But in the sentence, ’She hangs the curtains,’ hangs is an active-transitive verb.”—­Comly cor. “If our definition of a verb, and the arrangement of active-transitive, active-intransitive, passive, and neuter verbs, are properly understood.”—­Id. “These last two lines have an embarrassing construction.”—­Rush cor. “God was provoked to drown them all, but Noah and seven other persons.”—­Wood cor. “The first six books of the AEneid are extremely beautiful.”—­Formey cor. “Only a few instances more can here be given.”—­Murray cor. “A few years more will obliterate every vestige of a subjunctive form.”—­Nutting