3.  “Though from our birth the faculty divine
    Is chain’d and tortured—­cabin’d, cribb’d, confined.”
        —­Byron, Pilg., C. iv, St. 127.

XXXII.  In turning participles to adjectives, they sometimes ascribe actions, or active properties, to things to which they do not literally belong; as,

   “The green leaf quivering in the gale,
    The warbling hill, the lowing vale.” 
        —­MALLET:  Union Poems, p. 26.

XXXIII.  They employ several ADVERBS that are not used in prose, or are used but seldom; as, oft, haply, inly, blithely, cheerily, deftly, felly, rifely, starkly.

XXXIV.  They give to adverbs a peculiar location in respect to other words; as,

1.  “Peeping from forth their alleys green.”
        —­Collins.

2.  “Erect the standard there of ancient Night”
        —­Milton.

3.  “The silence often of pure innocence
    Persuades, when speaking fails.”
        —­Shakspeare.

4.  “Where Universal Love not smiles around.”
        —­Thomson.

5.  “Robs me of that which not enriches him.”
        —­Shakspeare.

XXXV.  They sometimes omit the introductory adverb there:  as,

   “Was nought around but images of rest.”
        —­Thomson.

XXXVI.  They briefly compare actions by a kind of compound adverbs, ending in like; as,

   “Who bid the stork, Columbus-like, explore
    Heavens not his own, and worlds unknown before?”
        —­Pope.

XXXVII.  They employ the CONJUNCTIONS, or—­or, and nor—­nor, as correspondents; as,

1. “Or by the lazy Scheldt or wandering Po.”
        —­Goldsmith.

2.  “Wealth heap’d on wealth, nor truth, nor safety buys.”
        —­Johnson.

3.  “Who by repentance is not satisfied,
    Is nor of heaven, nor earth; for these are pleas’d.”
        —­Shakspeare.

4.  “Toss it, or to the fowls, or to the flames.”
        —­Young, N. T., p. 157.

5. “Nor shall the pow’rs of hell, nor wastes of time,
    Or vanquish, or destroy.”
        —­Gibbon’s Elegy on Davies.

XXXVIII.  They oftener place PREPOSITIONS and their adjuncts, before the words on which they depend, than do prose writers; as,

   “Against your fame with fondness hate combines;
    The rival batters, and the lover mines.”
        —­Dr. Johnson.

XXXIX.  They sometimes place a long or dissyllabic preposition after its object; as,

1.  “When beauty, Eden’s bowers within,
    First stretched the arm to deeds of sin,
    When passion burn’d and prudence slept,
    The pitying angels bent and wept.”
        —­James Hogg.