Part 265 (1/2)

1 ”All knees to thee shall bow, of them that _bide_ In heav'n, or earth, or under earth in hell”

--_Milton, P L_, B iii, l 321

2 ”Of a horse, _ware_ the heels; of a bull-dog, the jaws; Of a bear, the embrace; of a lion, the paws”

--_Churchills Cram_, p 215

XXVIII Some few verbs they abbreviate: as _list_, for _listen_; _ope_, for _open_; _hark_, for _hearken_; _dark_, for _darken_; _threat_, for _threaten_; _sharp_, for _sharpen_

XXIX They employ several verbs that are not used in prose, or are used but rarely; as, _appal, astound, brook, cower, doff, ken, wend, ween, trow_

xxx They sometimes imitate a Greek construction of the infinitive; as,

1 ”Who would not sing for Lycidas? he knew Hi_, and _build_ the lofty rhyme”

--_Milton_

2 ”For not, _to have been dipp'd_ in Lethe lake, Could save the son of Thetis _from to die_”

--_Spenser_

xxxI They employ the PARTICIPLES more frequently than prose writers, and in a construction somewhat peculiar; often intensive by accu in the midst, explain'd The peace _rejected_, but the truce _obtain'd_”

--_Pope_

2 ”As a poor miserable captive thrall Co the priaz'd, unpitied, shunn'd_, A spectacle of ruin or of scorn”

--_Milton, P R_, B i, l 411

3 ”Though from our birth the faculty divine Is _chain'd_ and _tortured--cabin'd, cribb'd, confined_”

--_Byron, Pilg_, C iv, St 127

xxxII In turning participles to adjectives, they sos to which they do not literally belong; as,

”The green leaf quivering in the gale, The _warbling hill_, the _lowing vale_”

--MALLET: _Union Poems_, p 26

xxxIII They employ several ADVERBS that are not used in prose, or are used but seldom; as, _oft, haply, inly, blithely, cheerily, deftly, felly, rifely, starkly_

xxxIV They give to adverbs a peculiar location in respect to other words; as,

1 ”Peeping froreen”

--_Collins_

2 ”Erect the standard _there_ of ancient Night”

--_Milton_

3 ”The silence _often_ of pure innocence Persuades, when speaking fails”

--_Shakspeare_

4 ”Where Universal Love _not_ smiles around”