Page:The grammar of English grammars.djvu/1003

 carry away with him."--Goldsmith cor. "And Cæsar took out of the treasury, gold to the amount of three thousand pounds' weight, besides an immense quantity of silver." [548]--Id. "Rules and definitions, which should always be as clear and intelligible as possible, are thus rendered obscure."--Greenleaf cor. "So much both of ability and of merit is seldom found." Or thus: "So much of both ability and merit is seldom found."[549]--L. Murray cor. "If such maxims, and such practices prevail, what has become of decency and virtue?"[550]--Murray's False Syntax, ii, 62. Or: "If such maxims and practices prevail, what will become of decency and virtue?"--Murray and Bullions cor. "Especially if the subject does not require so much pomp."--Dr. Blair cor. "However, the proper mixture of light and shade in such compositions,--the exact adjustment of all the figurative circumstances with the literal sense,--has ever been found an affair of great nicety."--Blair's Rhet., p. 151. "And adding to that hissing in our language, which is so much noticed by foreigners."--Addison, Coote, and Murray, cor. "To speak impatiently to servants, or to do any thing that betrays unkindness, or ill-humour, is certainly criminal." Or better: "Impatience, unkindness, or ill-humour, is certainly criminal."--Mur. et al. cor. "Here are a fullness and grandeur of expression, well suited to the subject."--Dr. Blair cor. "I single out Strada from among the moderns, because he had the foolish presumption to censure Tacitus."--L. Murray cor. "I single him out from among the moderns, because," &c.--Bolingbroke cor. "This rule is not always observed, even by good writers, so strictly as it ought to be."--Dr. Blair cor. "But this gravity and assurance, which are beyond boyhood, being neither wisdom nor knowledge, do never reach to manhood."--Pope cor. "The regularity and polish even of a turnpike-road, have some influence upon the low people in the neighbourhood."--Kames cor. "They become fond of regularity and neatness; and this improvement of their taste is displayed, first upon their yards and little enclosures, and next within doors."--Id. "The phrase, 'it is impossible to exist,' gives us the idea, that it is impossible for men, or any body, to exist."--Priestley cor. "I'll give a thousand pounds to look upon him."--''Shak. cor. "The reader's knowledge, as Dr. Campbell observes, may prevent him from mistaking it."--Crombie and Murray cor. "When two words are set in contrast, or in opposition to each other, they are both emphatic."--L. Murray cor. "The number of the'' persons--men, women, and children--who were lost in the sea, was very great." Or thus: "The number of persons--men, women, and children--that were lost in the sea, was very great."--Id. "Nor is the resemblance between the primary and the resembling object pointed out."--Jamieson cor. "I think it the best book of the kind, that I have met with."--Mathews cor.

"Why should not we their ancient rites restore,   And be what Rome or Athens was before?"--Roscommon cor.

LESSON XII.--TWO ERRORS.

"It is labour only that gives relish to pleasure."--L. Murray cor. "Groves are never more agreeable than in the opening of spring."--Id. "His Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful, soon made him known to the literati."--See Blair's Lect., pp. 34 and 45. "An awful precipice or tower from which we look down on the objects which are below."--Dr. Blair cor. "This passage, though very poetical, is, however, harsh and obscure; and for no other cause than this, that three distinct metaphors are crowded together."--Id. "I purpose to make some observations."--Id. "I shall here follow the same method that I have all along pursued."--Id. "Mankind at no other time resemble one an other so much as they do in the beginnings of society."--Id. "But no ear is sensible of the termination of each foot, in the reading of a hexameter line."--Id. "The first thing, says he, that a writer either of fables or of heroic poems does, is, to choose some maxim or point of morality."--Id. "The fourth book has always been most justly admired, and indeed it abounds with beauties of the highest kind."--Id. "There is in the poem no attempt towards the painting of characters."--Id. "But the artificial contrasting of characters, and the constant introducing of them in pairs and by opposites, give too theatrical and affected an air to the piece."--Id. "Neither of them is arbitrary or local."--Kames cor. "If the crowding of figures is bad, it is still worse to graft one figure upon an other."--Id. "The crowding-together of so many objects lessens the pleasure."--Id. "This therefore lies not in the putting-off of the hat, nor in the making of compliments."--Locke cor. "But the Samaritan Vau may have been used, as the Jews used the Chaldaic, both for a vowel and for a consonant."--Wilson cor. "But if a solemn and a familiar pronunciation really exist in our language, is it not the business of a grammarian to mark both?"--J. Walker cor. "By making sounds follow one an other agreeably to certain laws."--Gardiner cor. "If there were no drinking of intoxicating draughts, there could be no drunkards."--Peirce cor. "Socrates knew his own defects, and if he was proud of any thing, it was of being thought to have none."--Goldsmith cor. "Lysander, having brought his army to Ephesus, erected an arsenal for the building of galleys."--Id. "The use of these signs is worthy of remark."--Brightland cor. "He received me