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 "And O, poor hapless nightingale, thought I,   How sweet thou singst, how near the deadly snare!"--Id.

"He calls for famine, and the meagre fiend   Blows mildew from between his shrivell'd lips."--Cowper.

"If o'er their lives a refluent glance they cast,   Theirs is the present who can praise the past."--Shenstone.

"Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave,   Is but the more a fool, the more a knave."--Pope.

"Great eldest-born of Dullness, blind and bold!   Tyrant! more cruel than Procrustes old;    Who, to his iron bed, by torture, fits,    Their nobler part, the souls of suffering wits."--Mallet.

"Parthenia, rise.--What voice alarms my ear?   Away. Approach not. Hah! Alexis there!"--Gay.

"Nor is it harsh to make, nor hard to find   A country with--ay, or without mankind."--Byron.

"A frame of adamant, a soul of fire,   No dangers fright him, and no labours tire."--Johnson.

"Now pall the tasteless meats, and joyless wines,   And luxury with sighs her slave resigns."--Id.

"Seems? madam; nay, it is: I know not seems--   For I have that within which passes show."--Hamlet.

"Return? said Hector, fir'd with stern disdain:   What! coop whole armies in our walls again?"--Pope.

"He whom the fortune of the field shall cast   From forth his chariot, mount the next in haste."--Id.

"Yet here, Laertes? aboard, aboard, for shame!"--Shak.

"Justice, most gracious Duke; O grant me justice!"--Id.

"But what a vengeance makes thee fly   From me too, as thine enemy?"--Butler.

"Immortal Peter! first of monarchs! He   His stubborn country tam'd, her rocks, her fens,    Her floods, her seas, her ill-submitting sons."--Thomson.

"O arrogance! Thou liest, thou thread, thou thimble,   Thou yard, three-quarters, half-yard, quarter, nail,    Thou flea, thou nit, thou winter-cricket, thou:--    Brav'd in mine own house with a skein of thread!    Away, thou rag, thou quantity, thou remnant;    Or I shall so be-mete thee with thy yard,    As thou shalt think on prating whilst thou liv'st." SHAK.: Taming of the Shrew, Act IV, Sc 3.

CHAPTER XII.--GENERAL REVIEW.

This twelfth chapter of Syntax is devoted to a series of lessons, methodically digested, wherein are reviewed and reapplied, mostly in the order of the parts of speech, all those syntactical principles heretofore given which are useful for the correction of errors.

IMPROPRIETIES FOR CORRECTION.

FALSE SYNTAX FOR A GENERAL REVIEW.

[Fist][The following examples of false syntax are arranged for a General Review of the doctrines contained in the preceding Rules and Notes. Being nearly all of them exact quotations, they are also a sort of syllabus of verbal criticism on the various works from which they are taken. What corrections they are supposed to need, may be seen by inspection of the twelfth chapter of the Key. It is here expected, that by recurring to the instructions before given, the learner who takes them as an oral exercise, will ascertain for himself the proper