“While he whom learning, habits,
all prevent,
Is largely mulct for
each impediment.”—Crabbe, Bor.,
p. 102.
“And then the chapel—night
and morn to pray,
Or mulct and threaten’d
if he kept away.”—Ib., p. 162.
“A small space is formed, in which the breath is pent up.”—Gardiner’s Music of Nature, p. 493. “Pen, when it means to write, is always regular. Boyle has penned in the sense of confined.”—Churchill’s Gram., p. 261. “So far as it was now pled.”—ANDERSON: Annals of the Bible, p. 25. “Rapped with admiration.”—HOOKER: Joh. Dict. “And being rapt with the love of his beauty.”—Id., ib. “And rapt in secret studies.”—SHAK.: ib. “I’m rapt with joy.”—ADDISON: ib. “Roast with fire.”—FRIENDS’ BIBLE: Exod., xii, 8 and 9. “Roasted with fire.”—SCOTT’S BIBLE: Exod., xii, 8 and 9. “Upon them hath the light shined.”—Isaiah, ix, 2. “The earth shined with his glory.”—Ezekiel, xliii, 2. “After that he had showed wonders.”—Acts, vii, 36. “Those things which God before had showed.”—Acts, iii, 18. “As shall be shewed in Syntax.”—Johnson’s Gram. Com., p. 28. “I have shown you, that the two first may be dismissed.”—Cobbett’s E. Gram., 10. “And in this struggle were sowed the seeds of the revolution.”—Everett’s Address, p. 16. “Your favour showed to the performance, has given me boldness.”—Jenks’s Prayers, Ded. “Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel.”—Rom., xv, 20. “Art thou, like the adder, waxen deaf?”—Shakspeare. “Hamstring’d behind, unhappy Gyges died.”—Dryden. “In Syracusa was I born and wed.”—Shakspeare. “And thou art wedded to calamity.”—Id. “I saw thee first, and wedded thee.”—Milton. “Sprung the rank weed, and thrived with large increase.”—Pope. “Some errors never would have thriven, had it not been for learned refutation.”—Book of Thoughts, p. 34. “Under your care they have thriven.”—Junius, p. 5. “Fixed by being rolled closely, compacted, knitted.”—Dr. Murray’s Hist., Vol. i, p. 374. “With kind converse and skill has weaved.”—Prior. “Though I shall be wetted to the skin.”—Sandford and Merton, p. 64. “I speeded hither with the very extremest inch of possibility.”—Shakspeare. “And pure grief shore his old thread in twain.”—Id. “And must I ravel out my weaved-up follies?”—Id., Rich. II. “Tells how the drudging Goblin swet.”—Milton’s L’Allegro. “Weave, wove or weaved, weaving, wove, weaved, or woven.”—Ward’s Gram., p. 67.
“Thou who beneath the frown
of fate hast stood,
And in thy dreadful agony
sweat blood.”—Young,
p. 238.