“For is there aught in sleep can charm the wise?”
        —­Thomson.

XIX.  They omit the antecedent, or introduce it after the relative; as,

1. “Who never fasts, no banquet e’er enjoys,
    Who never toils or watches, never sleeps.”
        —­Armstrong.

2. “Who dares think one thing and an other tell,
    My soul detests him as the gates of hell.”
        —­Pope’s Homer.

XX.  They remove relatives, or other connectives, into the body of their clauses; as,

1.  “Parts the fine locks, her graceful head that deck.”
        —­Darwin.

2.  “Not half so dreadful rises to the sight
    Orion’s dog, the year when autumn weighs.”
        —­Pope, Iliad, B. xxii, l. 37.

XXI.  They make intransitive VERBS transitive, changing their class; as,

1. ——­“A while he stands,
   Gazing the inverted landscape, half afraid
   To meditate the blue profound below.”
        —­Thomson.

2.  “Still in harmonious intercourse, they liv’d
    The rural day, and talk’d the flowing heart.”
        —­Idem.

3. ——­“I saw and heard, for we sometimes
   Who dwell this wild, constrain’d by want, come forth.”
        —­Milton, P. R., B. i, l. 330.

XXII.  They make transitive verbs intransitive, giving them no regimen; as,

1.  “The soldiers should have toss’d me on their pikes,
    Before I would have granted to that act.”
        —­Shakspeare.

2.  “This minstrel-god, well-pleased, amid the quire
    Stood proud to hymn, and tune his youthful lyre.”
        —­Pope.

XXIII.  They give to the imperative mood the first and the third person; as,

1. “Turn we a moment fancy’s rapid flight.”
        —­Thomson.

2. “Be man’s peculiar work his sole delight.”
        —­Beattie.

3.  “And what is reason?  Be she thus defin’d: 
    Reason is upright stature in the soul.”
        —­Young.

XXIV.  They employ can, could, and would, as principal verbs transitive; as,

1. “What for ourselves we can, is always ours.”
        —­Anon.

2.  “Who does the best his circumstance allows,
    Does well, acts nobly; angels could no more.”
        —­Young.

3.  “What would this man?  Now upward will he soar,
    And, little less than angel, would be more.”
        —­Pope.

XXV.  They place the infinitive before the word on which it depends; as,

1.  “When first thy sire to send on earth
    Virtue, his darling child, design’d”
        —­Gray.