“Or as a moat defensive to a house
    Against the envy of less happier lands.”—­Shakspeare.

    “A dreadful quiet felt, and worser far
    Than arms, a sullen interval of war.”—­Dryden.

UNDER NOTE VIII.—­ADJECTIVES CONNECTED.

“It breaks forth in its most energetick, impassioned, and highest strain.”—­Kirkham’s Elocution, p. 66.  “He has fallen into the most gross and vilest sort of railing.”—­Barclay’s Works, iii, 261.  “To receive that more general and higher instruction which the public affords.”—­District School, p. 281.  “If the best things have the perfectest and best operations.”—­HOOKER:  Joh.  Dict. “It became the plainest and most elegant, the most splendid and richest, of all languages.”—­See Bucke’s Gram., p. 140.  “But the most frequent and the principal use of pauses, is, to mark the divisions of the sense.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 331; Murray’s Gram., 248.  “That every thing belonging to ourselves is the perfectest and the best.”—­Clarkson’s Prize Essay, p. 189.  “And to instruct their pupils in the most thorough and best manner.”—­Report of a School Committee.

UNDER NOTE IX.—­ADJECTIVES SUPERADDED.

“The Father is figured out as an old venerable man.”—­Dr. Brownlee’s Controversy.  “There never was exhibited such another masterpiece of ghostly assurance.”—­Id. “After the three first sentences, the question is entirely lost.”—­Spect., No, 476.  “The four last parts of speech are commonly called particles.”—­Alex.  Murray’s Gram., p. 14.  “The two last chapters will not be found deficient in this respect.”—­Student’s Manual, p. 6.  “Write upon your slates a list of the ten first nouns.”—­Abbott’s Teacher, p. 85.  “We have a few remains of other two Greek poets in the pastoral style, Moschus and Bion.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 393.  “The nine first chapters of the book of Proverbs are highly poetical.”—­Ib., p. 417.  “For of these five heads, only the two first have any particular relation to the sublime.”—­Ib., p. 35.  “The resembling sounds of the two last syllables give a ludicrous air to the whole.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., ii, 69.  “The three last are arbitrary.”—­Ib., p. 72.  “But in the phrase ‘She hangs the curtains,’ the verb hangs is a transitive active verb.”—­Comly’s Gram., p. 30.  “If our definition of a verb, and the arrangement of transitive or intransitive active, passive, and neuter verbs, are properly understood.”—­Ib., 15th Ed., p. 30.  “These two last lines have an embarrassing construction.”—­Rush, on the Voice, p. 160.  “God was provoked to drown them all, but Noah and other seven persons.”—­Wood’s Dict., ii, 129.  “The six first books of the AEneid are extremely beautiful.”—­Formey’s