“As where a landscape is conjoined with the music of birds and odour of flowers.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., i, 117.  “The last order resembles the second in the mildness of its accent, and softness of its pause.”—­Ib., ii, 113.  “Before the use of the loadstone or knowledge of the compass.”—­Dryden.  “The perfect participle and imperfect tense ought not to be confounded.”—­Murray’s Gram., ii, 292.  “In proportion as the taste of a poet, or orator, becomes more refined.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 27.  “A situation can never be intricate, as long as there is an angel, devil, or musician, to lend a helping hand.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., ii, 285.  “Avoid rude sports:  an eye is soon lost, or bone broken.”—­“Not a word was uttered, nor sign given.”—­Brown’s Inst., p. 125.  “I despise not the doer, but deed.”—­Ibid. “For the sake of an easier pronunciation and more agreeable sound.”—­Lowth.  “The levity as well as loquacity of the Greeks made them incapable of keeping up the true standard of history.”—­ Bolingbroke, on Hist., p. 115.

UNDER NOTE IV.—­ADJECTIVES CONNECTED.

“It is proper that the vowels be a long and short one.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 327.  “Whether the person mentioned was seen by the speaker a long or short time before.”—­Ib., p. 70; Fisk’s, 72.  “There are three genders, Masculine, Feminine, and Neuter.”—­Adam’s Lat.  Gram., p. 8.  “The numbers are two; Singular and Plural.”—­Ib., p. 80; Gould’s, 77.  “The persons are three; First, Second, [and] Third.”—­Adam, et al.  “Nouns and pronouns have three cases; the nominative, possessive, and objective.”—­Comly’s Gram., p. 19; Ingersoll’s, 21.  “Verbs have five moods; namely, the Indicative, Potential, Subjunctive, Imperative, and Infinitive.”—­ Bullions’s E. Gram., p. 35; Lennie’s, 20.  “How many numbers have pronouns?  Two, the singular and plural.”—­Bradley’s Gram., p. 82.  “To distinguish between an interrogative and exclamatory sentence.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 280; Comly’s, 163; Ingersoll’s, 292.  “The first and last of which are compounded members.”—­Lowth’s Gram., p. 123.  “In the last lecture, I treated of the concise and diffuse, the nervous and feeble manner.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 183.  “The passive and neuter verbs, I shall reserve for some future conversation.”—­Ingersoll’s Gram., p. 69.  “There are two voices; the Active and Passive.”—­Adam’s Gram., p. 59; Gould’s, 87.  “Whose is rather the poetical than regular genitive of which.”—­Dr. Johnson’s Gram., p. 7.  “To feel the force of a compound, or derivative word.”—­Town’s Analysis, p. 4.  “To preserve the distinctive uses of the copulative and disjunctive conjunctions.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 150; Ingersoll’s, 233.  “E has a long and short sound in most languages.”—­