“For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey,
      This pleasing, anxious being e’er resign’d,
    Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day
       Nor cast one longing, ling’ring look behind?”—­GRAY:  Mur.  Seq.

UNDER THE EXCEPTIONS CONCERNING APPOSITION.

“Smith & Williams’s store; Nicholas the emperor’s army.”—­Day cor. “He was named William the Conqueror.”—­Id. “John the Baptist was beheaded.”—­Id. “Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil.”—­2 Tim., iv, 14.  “A nominative in immediate apposition:  as, ’The boy Henry speaks.’”—­Smart cor. “A noun objective can be in apposition with some other; as, ‘I teach the boy Henry.’”—­Id.

UNDER RULE VIII.—­OF ADJECTIVES.

“But he found me, not singing at my work, ruddy with health, vivid with cheerfulness; but pale,” &c.—­DR. JOHNSON:  Murray’s Sequel, p. 4.  “I looked up, and beheld an inclosure, beautiful as the gardens of paradise, but of a small extent.”—­HAWKESWORTH:  ib., p. 20. “A is an article, indefinite, and belongs to ‘book.’”—­Bullions cor. “The first expresses the rapid movement of a troop of horse over the plain, eager for the combat.”—­Id. “He [, the Indian chieftain, King Philip,] was a patriot, attached to his native soil; a prince, true to his subjects, and indignant of their wrongs; a soldier, daring in battle, firm in adversity, patient of fatigue, of hunger, of every variety of bodily suffering, and ready to perish in the cause he had espoused.”—­W.  Irving.

   “For thee, who, mindful of th’ unhonour’d dead,
    Dost in these lines their artless tale relate.” 
        —­GRAY:  Mur.  Seq., p. 258.

    “Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest;
    Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country’s blood.” 
        —­GRAY:  Enf.  Sp., p. 245.

    “Idle after dinner [,] in his chair,
    Sat a farmer, ruddy, fat, and fair.”
        —­Murray’s Gram., p. 257.

UNDER THE EXCEPTION CONCERNING ADJECTIVES.

“When an attribute becomes a title, or is emphatically applied to a name, it follows it:  as, Charles the Great; Henry the First; Lewis the Gross.”—­Webster cor. “Feed me with food convenient for me.”—­Prov., xxx, 8.  “The words and phrases necessary to exemplify every principle progressively laid down, will be found strictly and exclusively adapted to the illustration of the principles to which they are referred.”—­Ingersoll cor. “The Infinitive Mood is that form of the verb which expresses being or action unlimited by person or number.”—­Day cor. “A man diligent in his business, prospers.”—­Frost cor.