“All withers here; who most possess, are losers by their gain,
    Stung by full proof, that bad at best, life’s idle all is vain.”
        —­Young.

   “Nor grudge I thee the much the Grecians give,
    Nor murm’ring take the little I receive.”
        —­Dryden.

2.  Pronouns made nouns:  “A love of seeing the what and how of all about him.”—­STORY’S LIFE OF FLAXMAN:  Pioneer, Vol. i, p. 133.  “The nameless HE, whose nod is Nature’s birth.”—­Young, Night iv.  “I was wont to load my she with knacks.”—­Shak.  Winter’s Tale.  “Or any he, the proudest of thy sort.”—­Shak.  “I am the happiest she in Kent.”—­Steele.  “The shes of Italy.”—­Shak.  “The hes in birds.”—­Bacon.  “We should soon have as many hes and shes as the French.”—­Cobbet’s E. Gram., Para. 42.  “If, for instance, we call a nation a she, or the sun a he.”—­Ib., Para. 198.  “When I see many its in a page, I always tremble for the writer.”—­Ib., Para. 196.  “Let those two questionary petitioners try to do this with their whos and their whiches.”—­SPECT:  Ash’s Gr., p. 131.

   “Such mortal drugs I have; but Mantua’s law
    Is death to any he that utters them.”—­Shak.

3.  Verbs made nouns:  “Avaunt all attitude, and stare, and start theatric.”—­Cowper.  “A may-be of mercy is sufficient.”—­Bridge.  “Which cuts are reckoned among the fractures.”—­Wiseman.  “The officer erred in granting a permit.”—­“Feel darts and charms, attracts and flames.”—­Hudibras.  “You may know by the falling off of the come, or sprout.”—­Mortimer.  “And thou hast talk’d of sallies and retires.”—­Shak.

   “For all that else did come, were sure to fail;
    Yet would he further none, but for avail.”—­Spenser.

4.  Participles made nouns:  “For the producing of real happiness.”—­Crabb.  “For the crying of the poor and the sighing of the needy, I will arise.”—­Bible.  “Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood; so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.”—­Prov., xxx, 33. “Reading, writing, and ciphering, are indispensable to civilized man.”—­“Hence was invented the distinction between doing and permitting.”—­Calvin’s Inst., p. 131.  “Knowledge of the past comes next.”—­Hermes, p. 113.  “I am my beloved’s, and his desire is toward me.”—­Sol.  Song, vii, 10.  “Here’s—­a simple coming-in for one man.”—­Shak.

   “What are thy rents?  What are thy comings-in? 
    O Ceremony, show me but thy worth.”—­Id.