“In that it gives them not that comfort and joy which it gives to them who love it.”—­Id. “Thou here misunderstood the place and misapplied it.”  Or:  “Thou here misunderstoodst the place and misappliedst it.”—­Id. Or:  (as many of our grammarians will have it:) “Thou here misunderstoodest the place and misappliedst it.”—­Id. “Like the barren heath in the desert, which knoweth not when good cometh.”—­See Jer., xvii, 6.  “It speaks of the time past, and shows that something was then doing, but not quite finished.”—­Devis cor. “It subsists in spite of them; it advances unobserved.”—­Pascal cor.

   “But where is he, the pilgrim of my song?—­
    Methinks he lingers late and tarries long.”—­Byron cor.

UNDER NOTE VIII.—­CONFUSION OF MOODS.

“If a man have a hundred sheep, and one of them go (or be gone) astray,” &c.—­Matt., xviii, 12.  Or:  “If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them goes (or is gone) astray,” &c.  Or:  “If a man hath a hundred sheep, and one of them goeth (or is gone) astray,” &c.—­Kirkham cor. “As a speaker advances in his discourse, and increases in energy and earnestness, a higher and a louder tone will naturally steal upon him.”—­Id. “If one man esteem one day above an other, and an other esteem every day alike; let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.”—­Barclay cor. See Rom., xiv, 5.  “If there be but one body of legislators, it will be no better than a tyranny; if there be only two, there will want a casting voice.”—­Addison cor. “Should you come up this way, and I be still here, you need not be assured how glad I should be to see you.”—­Byron cor. “If he repent and become holy, let him enjoy God and heaven.”—­Brownson cor. “If thy fellow approach thee, naked and destitute, and thou say unto him, ’Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,’ and yet thou give him not those things which are needful to him, what benevolence is there in thy conduct?”—­Kirkham cor.

   “Get on your nightgown, lest occasion call us,
    And show us to be watchers.”—­Singer’s Shakspeare.

    “But if it climb, with your assisting hand,
    The Trojan walls, and in the city stand.”—­Dryden cor.

----------------“Though Heaven’s King
Ride on thy wings, and thou with thy compeers,
Used to the yoke, draw his triumphant wheels.”—­Milton cor.

UNDER NOTE IX.—­IMPROPER ELLIPSES.