A noun is sometimes nominative to a verb placed many lines after the noun.  You must exercise your judgment in this matter.  Look at the sentence in the preceding exercises beginning with, “He who, every morning,” &c. and see if you can find the verb to which he is nominative.  What does he do?  He carries on a thread, &c. He, then, is nominative to the verb carries.  What does who do?  Who plans, and who follows, &c.  Then who is nom. to plans, and who understood, is nominative to follows.

  “A soul without reflection, like a pile
  Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.”

In order to find the verb to which the noun soul, in this sentence, is the nominative, put the question; What does a soul without reflection do?  Such, a soul runs to ruin, like a pile without inhabitant.  Thus you discover, that soul is nominative to runs.

When the words of a sentence are arranged according to their natural order, the nominative case, you recollect, is placed before the verb, and the objective, after it; but when the words of a sentence are transposed; that is, not arranged according to their natural order, it frequently happens, that the nominative comes after, and the objective, before the verb; especially in poetry, or when a question is asked:  as, “Whence arises the misery of the present world?” “What good thing shall I do to inherit eternal life?” Put these expressions in the declarative form, and the nominative will precede, and the objective follow its verb:  thus, “The misery of the present world arises whence; I shall do what good thing to inherit eternal life.”

  “Now came still evening on, and twilight gray
  Had, in her sober livery, all things clad.”

  “Stern rugged nurse, thy rigid lore
  With patience many a year she bore.”

What did the evening do?  The evening came on.  Gray twilight had clad what?  Twilight had clad all things in her sober livery. Evening, then, is nom. to came, and the noun things is in the objective case, and gov. by had clad:  RULE 20.  What did she bear?  She bore thy rigid lore with patience, for, or during, many a year.  Hence you find, that lore is in the objective case, and governed by bore, according to RULE 20. Year is gov. by during understood:  RULE 32.

A noun is frequently nominative to a verb understood, or in the objective, and governed by a verb understood; as, “Lo, [there is] the poor Indian! whose untutored mind.”  “O, the pain [there is!] the bliss [there is] in dying!” “All were sunk, but the wakeful nightingale [was not sunk.”] “He thought as a sage [thinks,] though he felt as a man [feels.”] “His hopes, immortal, blow them by, as dust [is blown by.”] Rule 35 applies to these last three examples.