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 in dignity to the speaker."--Harris's Hermes, p. 66. "To which we are many times helpt."--Walker's Particles, p. 13. "But for him, I should have lookt well enough to myself."--Ib., p. 88. "Why are you vext, Lady? why do frown?"--Milton, Comus, l. 667. "Obtruding false rules prankt in reason's garb."--Ib., l. 759. "But, like David equipt in Saul's armour, it is encumbered and oppressed."--Campbell's Rhet., p. 378.

"And when their merchants are blown up, and crackt,   Whole towns are cast away in storms, and wreckt." --Butler, p. 163.

LESSON III.--MIXED.

"The lands are holden in free and common soccage." --Trumbull's Hist, i, 133.

[FORMULE.--Not proper, because the participle holden is not in that form which present usage authorizes. But, according to the table of irregular verbs, the four parts of the verb to hold, as now used, are ''hold, held, holding, held''. Therefore, holden should be held; thus, "The lands are held in free and common soccage."]

"A stroke is drawed under such words."--Cobbett's E. Grammar, Edition of 1832, ¶ 154. "It is striked even, with a strickle."--Walkers Particles, p. 115. "Whilst I was wandring, without any care, beyond my bounds."--Ib., p. 83. "When one would do something, unless hindred by something present."--''Johnson's Gram. Com.'', p. 311. "It is used potentially, but not so as to be rendred by these signs."--Ib., p. 320. "Now who would dote upon things hurryed down the stream thus fast?"--Collier's Antoninus, p. 89. "Heaven hath timely try'd their growth."--Milton, Comus, l. 970. "O! ye mistook, ye should have snatcht his wand."--Ib., p. 815. "Of true virgin here distrest."--Ib., p. 905. "So that they have at last come to be substitute in the stead of it."--Barclay's Works, i, 339. "Though ye have lien among the pots."--Psal., lxviii, 13. "And, lo, in her mouth was an olive-leaf pluckt off."--FRIENDS' BIBLE, and BRUCE'S: Gen., viii, 11. "Brutus and Cassius Are rid like madmen, through the gates of Rome."--Shak. "He shall be spitted on."--Luke, xviii, 32. "And are not the countries so overflown still situate between the tropics?"--Bentley's Sermons. "Not trickt and frounc't as she was wont, But kercheft in a comely cloud."--Milton, Il Penseroso, l. 123. "To satisfy his rigor, Satisfy'd never."--Id., P. L., B. x, l. 804. "With him there crucify'd."--Id., P. L., B. xii, l. 417. "Th' earth cumber'd, and the wing'd air darkt with plumes."--Id., Comus, l. 730. "And now their way to Earth they had descry'd."--Id., P. L., B. x, l. 325. "Not so thick swarm'd once the soil Bedropt with blood of Gorgon."--Ib., B. x, l. 527. "And in a troubled sea of passion tost."--Ib., B. x, l. 718. "The cause, alas, is quickly guest."--Swift's Poems, p. 404. "The kettle to the top was hoist"--Ib., p. 274. "In chains thy syllables are linkt."--Ib., p. 318. "Rather than thus be overtopt, Would you not wish their laurels cropt?"--Ib., p. 415. "The hyphen, or conjoiner, is a little line, drawed to connect words, or parts of words."--Cobbett's E. Gram., 1832, ¶ 150. "In the other manners of dependence, this general rule is sometimes broke."--''Joh. Gram. Com.'', p. 334. "Some intransitive verbs may be rendered transitive by means of a preposition prefixt to them."--Grant's Lat. Gram., p. 66. "Whoever now should place the accent on the first syllable of Valerius, would set every body a-laughing."--Walker's Dict. "Being mocked, scourged, spitted on, and crucified."--Gurney's Essays, p. 40.

"For rhyme in Greece or Rome was never known,   Till by barbarian deluges o'erflown."--Roscommon.

"In my own Thames may I be drownded,   If e'er I stoop beneath a crown'd-head."--Swift.

CHAPTER VIII.--ADVERBS.

An Adverb is a word added to a verb, a participle, an adjective, or an other adverb; and generally expresses time, place, degree, or manner: as, They are now here, studying very diligently.

OBSERVATIONS.

OBS. 1.--Adverbs briefly express what would otherwise require several words: as Now, for at this time;--Here, for in this place;--Very, for in a high degree;--Diligently, for in an industrious manner. Thus the meaning of almost any adverb, may be explained by some phrase beginning with a preposition and ending with a noun.

OBS. 2.--There are several customary combinations of short words, which are used adverbially, and which some grammarians do not analyze in parsing; as, not at all, at length, in fine, in full, at least, at present, at once, this once, in vain, no doubt, on board. But all words that convey distinct ideas, and rightly retain their individuality, ought to be taken separately in parsing. With the liberty of supposing a few ellipses, an ingenious parser will seldom find occasion to speak of "adverbial phrases." In these instances, length, doubt, fine, and board, are unquestionably nouns; once, too, is used as a noun; full and all may be parsed either as nouns, or