Part 246 (2/2)

”Creation sleeps 'Tis as the gen'ral pulse Of life stood still, and nature made a pause; An awful pause! prophetic of her end

And let her prophecy be soon fulfill'd: Fate, drop the curtain; I can lose no _

SECTION V--THE DASH

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE I--OF ABRUPT PAUSES

”And there is soe story, that reseh's Speaker_, p 149

”Sir,--Mr Myrtle--Gentlemen--You are friends--I am but a servant--But--”--_Ib_, p 118

”An other iven plump into this foolish story; but I--No, no, your hu_

”Do not plunge thyself too far in anger, lest thou hasten thy trial; which if--Lord have mercy on thee for a hen!”--SHAKSPEARE, _All's Well_

”But ere they came,--O, let me say no more!

Gather the sequel by that went before”--IDEM, _Com of Errors_

UNDER RULE II--OF EMPHATIC PAUSES

”M,--Malvolio;--M,--why, that begins ht_

”Thus, by the creative influence of the Eternal Spirit, were the heavens and the earth finished in the space of six days--so aded into a system of perfect order and beauty--that the adorable Architect hiood_, and _all the sons of God shouted for joy_”--_Historical Reader_, p 10

”If I were an An troop remained in my country, I never would lay down my arms--never, never, never”--_Pitt's Speech_

”Madam, yourself are not exeham, nor you”--SHAK

UNDER RULE III--OF FAULTY DASHES

”'You shall go home directly, Le Fevre,' said my uncle Toby, 'to my house; and we'll send for a doctor to see what's the matter; and we'll have an apothecary; and the corporal shall be your nurse: and I'll be your servant, Le Fevre'”--_Sterne cor_

”He continued: 'Inferior artists may be at a stand, because they want materials'”--_Harris cor_ ”Thus, then, continued he: 'The end, in other arts, is ever distant and removed'”--_Id_

”The nouns must be coupled with _and_; and when a pronoun is used, it must be plural, as in the example When the nouns are _disjoined_, the pronoun ular”--_Lennie cor_

”_Opinion_ is a coular nuht cor_

”The mountain, thy pall and thy prison, may keep thee; I shall see thee no more, but till death I eep thee”

--_See Felton's Gram_, p 93

MIXED EXAMPLES CORRECTED

”If to accommodate man and beast, heaven and earth--if this be beyond me, 'tis not possible--What consequence then follows? Or can there be any other than this?--_if_ I seek an interest of my own, detached from that of others, I seek an interest which is chiain: I enial warmth, I instantly perish Am I not related, in this view, to the very earth itself?--_to_ the distant sun, froour?”--_Id_