“Vital spark of heavenly flame! 
    Quit, oh quit this mortal frame!”—­Pope.

    “O the pleasing, pleasing anguish,
    When we love, and when we languish.”—­Addison.

    “Praise to God, immortal praise,
    For the love that crowns our days!”—­Barbauld.

UNDER RULE XVII.—­OF DEPENDENT QUOTATIONS.

“Thus, of an infant, we say, ‘It is a lovely creature.’”—­Bullions cor. “No being can state a falsehood in saying, ‘I am;’ for no one can utter this, if it is not true.”—­Cardell cor. “I know they will cry out against this, and say, ‘Should he pay,’ means, ‘If he should pay.’”—­O.  B. Peirce cor. “For instance, when we say, ‘The house is building,’ the advocates of the new theory ask,—­’building what?’ We might ask in turn, When you say, ’The field ploughs well,’—­ploughs what? ’Wheat sells well,’—­sells what? If usage allows us to say, ’Wheat sells at a dollar,’ in a sense that is not active; why may it not also allow us to say, ‘Wheat is selling at a dollar’ in a sense that is not active?”—­Hart cor. “Man is accountable,’ equals, ’Mankind are accountable.’”—­Barrett cor. “Thus, when we say, ‘He may be reading,’ may is the real verb; the other parts are verbs by name only.”—­Smart cor. “Thus we say, an apple, an hour, that two vowel sounds may not come together.”—­Id. “It would be as improper to say, an unit, as to say, an youth; to say, an one, as to say, an wonder.”—­Id. “When we say, ‘He died for the truth,’ for is a preposition.”—­Id. “We do not say, ’I might go yesterday;’ but, ‘I might have gone yesterday.’”—­Id. “By student, we understand, one who has by matriculation acquired the rights of academical citizenship; but, by bursche, we understand, one who has already spent a certain time at the university.”—­Howitt cor.

SECTION II.—­THE SEMICOLON.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE I.—­OF COMPLEX MEMBERS.

“The buds spread into leaves, and the blossoms swell to fruit; but they know not how they grow, nor who causes them to spring up from the bosom of the earth.”—­Day cor. “But he used his eloquence chiefly against Philip, king of Macedon; and, in several orations, he stirred up the Athenians to make war against him.”—­Bullions cor. “For the sake of euphony, the n is dropped before a consonant; and, because most words begin with a consonant, this of course is its more common form.”—­Id. “But if I say, ‘Will a man be able to carry this burden?’ it is manifest the idea is entirely changed; the reference is not to number, but to the species; and the answer might be, ‘No; but a horse will.’”—­Id. “In