Nouns and pronouns in the objective case, are frequently in apposition; as, He struck Charles the student.  Now it is obvious, that, when he struck Charles, he struck the student, because Charles was the student, and the student was Charles; therefore the noun student is in the objective case, governed by “struck,” and put by apposition with Charles, according to RULE 7.

Please to examine this lecture very attentively.  You will then be prepared to parse the following examples correctly and systematically.

PARSING.

    “Weep on the rocks of roaring winds, O maid of Inistore.”

Maid is a noun, the name of a person—–­ com. the name of a sort—­fem. gender, it denotes a female—­second pers. spoken to—­sing. num. it implies but one—­and in the nominative case independent, because it is addressed, and has no verb to agree with it, according to

RULE 5. When an address is made, the noun or pronoun addressed, is put in the nominative case independent.

    “The general being ransomed, the barbarians permitted him to
    depart.”

General is a noun, the name, &c. (parse it in full:)—­and in the nominative case absolute, because it is placed before the participle “being ransomed,” and it has no verb to agree with it, agreeably to

RULE 6. A noun or pronoun placed before a participle, and being independent of the rest of the sentence, is in the nominative case absolute.

    "Thou man of God, flee to the land of Judah.”

Thou is a pronoun, a word used instead of a noun—­personal, it personates “man”—­second pers. spoken to—­mas. gender, sing. num. because the noun “man” is for which it stands; RULE 13 (Repeat the Rule.)—­Thou is in the nominative case independent and put by apposition with man, because it signifies the same thing, according to

RULE 7. Two or more nouns, or nouns and pronouns, signifying the same thing, are put, by apposition, in the same case.

Man is in the nominative case independent, according to Rule 5. Flee agrees with thou understood.

    “Lo! Newton, priest of Nature, shines afar,
    Scans the wide world, and numbers every star.”

Newton is a noun, (parse it in full,) and in the nominative case to “shines.”  RULE 3.

Priest is a noun, (parse it in full,) and in the nom. case, it is the actor and subject of the verb “shines,” and put by apposition with “Newton,” because it signifies the same thing, agreeably to Rule 7.  (Repeat the Rule.)

EXERCISES IN PARSING.

Turn from your evil ways, O house of Israel!  Ye fields of light, celestial plains, ye scenes divinely fair! proclaim your Maker’s wondrous power.  O king! live for ever.  The murmur of thy streams, O Lora, brings back the memory of the past.  The sound of thy woods, Garmallar, is lovely in my ear.  Dost thou not behold, Malvina, a rock with its head of heath?  Three aged pines bend from its face; green is the plain at its feet; there the flower of the mountain grows, and shades its white head in the breeze.