The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown (free ebook reader .txt) 📕

new church, called the Pantheon, is about being completed, in an expensive style."—Thompson cor. "When I last saw him, he had grown considerably."—Murray cor. "I know what a rugged and dangerous path I have got into."—Duncan cor. "You might as well preach ease to one on the rack."—Locke cor. "Thou hast heard me, and hast become my salvation."—Bible cor. "While the Elementary Spelling-Book was preparing (or, was in progress of preparation) for the press."—Cobb cor. "Language has become, in modern times, more correct."—Jamieson cor. "If the plan has been executed in any measure answerable to the author's wishes."—Robbins cor. "The vial of wrath is still pouring out on the seat of the beast."—Christian Ex. cor. "Christianity had become the generally-adopted and established religion of the whole Roman Empire."—Gurney cor. "Who wrote before the first century had elapsed."—Id. "The original and analogical form has grown quite obsolete."—Lowth cor. "Their love, and their hatred, and their envy, have perished."—Murray cor. "The poems had got abroad, and were in a great many hands."—Waller cor. "It is more harmonious, as well as more correct, to say, 'The bubble is ready to burst.'"—Cobbett cor. "I drove my suitor from his mad humour of love."—Shak. cor. "Se viriliter expedivit."—Cic. "He has played the man."—Walker cor. "Wilt thou kill me, as thou didst the Egyptian yesterday?"—Bible cor. "And we, methought, [or thought I] looked up to him from our hill"—Cowley cor. "I fear thou dost not think so much of the best things as thou ought."—Memoir cor. "When this work was commenced."—Wright cor. "Exercises and a Key to this work are about being prepared."—Id. "James is loved by John."—Id. "Or that which is exhibited."—Id. "He was smitten."—Id. "In the passive voice we say, 'I am loved.'"—Id. "Subjunctive Mood: If I be smitten, If thou be smitten, If he be smitten."—Id. "I shall not be able to convince you how superficial the reformation is."—Chalmers cor. "I said to myself, I shall be obliged to expose the folly."—Chazotte cor. "When Clodius, had he meant to return that day to Rome, must have arrived."—J. Q. Adams cor. "That the fact has been done, is doing, or will be done."—Peirce cor. "Am I to be instructed?"—Wright cor. "I choose him."—Id. "John, who respected his father, was obedient to his commands."—Barrett cor.

"The region echoes to the clash of arms."—Beattie cor.

    "And sitst on high, and mak'st creation's top
    Thy footstool; and beholdst below thee—all."—Pollok cor.

    "And see if thou canst punish sin and let
    Mankind go free. Thou failst—be not surprised."—Idem.

LESSON III—MIXED EXAMPLES.

"What follows, might better have been wanting altogether."—Dr. Blair cor. "This member of the sentence might much better have been omitted altogether."—Id. "One or the other of them, therefore, might better have been omitted."—Id. "The whole of this last member of the sentence might better have been dropped."—Id. "In this case, they might much better be omitted."—Id. "He might better have said 'the productions.'"—Id. "The Greeks ascribed the origin of poetry to Orpheus, Linus, and Musæus."—Id. "It was noticed long ago, that all these fictitious names have the same number of syllables."—Phil. Museum cor. "When I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, I determined to send him."—Bible cor. "I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God."—Id. "As for such, I wish the Lord would open their eyes." Or, better: "May the Lord open (or, I pray the Lord to open) their eyes."—Barclay cor. "It would have made our passage over the river very difficult."—Walley cor. "We should not have been able to carry our great guns."—Id. "Others would have questioned our prudence, if we had."—Id. "Beware thou be not BECÆSARED; i.e., Beware that thou do not dwindle—or, lest thou dwindle—into a mere Cæsar."—Harris cor. "Thou raisedst (or, familiarly, thou raised) thy voice to record the stratagems of needy heroes."—Arbuthnot cor. "Life hurries off apace; thine is almost gone already."—Collier cor. "'How unfortunate has this accident made me!' cries such a one."—Id. "The muse that soft and sickly woos the ear."—Pollok cor. "A man might better relate himself to a statue."—Bacon cor. "I heard thee say but now, thou liked not that."—Shak. cor. "In my whole course of wooing, thou criedst, (or, familiarly, thou cried,) Indeed!"—Id. "But our ears have grown familiar with 'I have wrote, 'I have drank,' &c., which are altogether as ungrammatical."—Lowth et al. cor. "The court was in session before Sir Roger came"—Addison cor. "She needs—(or, if you please, need,—) be no more with the jaundice possessed"—Swift cor. "Besides, you found fault with our victuals one day when you were here."—Id. "If spirit of other sort, So minded, hath (or has) o'erleaped these earthy bounds."—Milton cor. "It would have been more rational to have forborne this."—Barclay cor. "A student is not master of it till he has seen all these."—Dr. Murray cor. "The said justice shall summon the party."—Brevard cor. "Now what has become of thy former wit and humour?"—Spect. cor. "Young stranger, whither wanderst thou?"—Burns cor. "SUBJ. Pres. If I love, If thou love, If he love. Imp. If I loved, If thou loved, If he loved."—Merchant cor. "SUBJ. If I do not love, If thou do not love, If he do not love."—Id. "If he has committed sins, they shall be forgiven him."—Bible cor. "Subjunctive Mood of the verb to call, second person singular: If thou call, (rarely, If thou do call,) If thou called."—Hiley cor. "Subjunctive Mood of the verb to love, second person singular: If thou love, (rarely, If thou do love,) If thou loved."—Bullions cor. "I was; thou wast; he, she, or it, was: We, you or ye, they, were."—White cor. "I taught, thou taughtest, (familiarly, thou taught,) he taught."— Coar cor. "We say, 'If it rain,' 'Suppose it rain?' 'Lest it rain,' 'Unless it rain.' This manner of speaking is called the SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD."—Weld cor. "He has arrived at what is deemed the age of manhood."—Priestley cor. "He might much better have let it alone."—Tooke cor. "He were better without it. Or: He would be better without it."—Locke cor. "Hadst thou not been by. Or: If thou hadst not been by. Or, in the familiar style: Had not thou been by,"—Shak. cor. "I learned geography. Thou learned arithmetic. He learned grammar."—Fuller cor. "Till the sound has ceased."—Sheridan cor. "Present, die; Preterit, died; Perf. Participle, died."—Six English Grammars corrected.

   "Thou bow'dst thy glorious head to none, fear'dst none." Or:—
    "Thou bowed thy glorious head to none, feared none."
        —Pollok cor.

    "Thou lookst upon thy boy as though thou guess'd it."
        —Knowles cor.

    "As once thou slept, while she to life was formed."
        —Milton cor.

    "Who finds the partridge in the puttock's nest,
    But may imagine how the bird was killed?"
        —Shak. cor.

    "Which might have well become the best of men."
        —Idem cor.

CHAPTER VII.—PARTICIPLES. CORRECTIONS IN THE FORMS OF PARTICIPLES. LESSON I.—IRREGULARS.

"Many of your readers have mistaken that passage."—Steele cor. "Had not my dog of a steward run away."—Addison cor. "None should be admitted, except he had broken his collarbone thrice."—Id. "We could not know what was written at twenty."—Waller cor. "I have written, thou hast written, he has written; we have written, you have written, they have written."—Ash cor. "As if God had spoken his last words there to his people."—Barclay cor. "I had like to have come in that ship myself."—Observer cor. "Our ships and vessels being driven out of the harbour by a storm."—Hutchinson cor. "He will endeavour to write as the ancient author would have written, had he written in the same language."—Bolingbroke cor. "When his doctrines grew too strong to be shaken by his enemies."—Atterbury cor. "The immortal mind that hath forsaken her mansion."—Milton cor. "Grease that's sweated (or sweat) from the murderer's gibbet, throw into the flame."—Shak. cor. "The court also was chidden (or chid) for allowing such questions to be put."—Stone cor. "He would have spoken."—Milton cor. "Words interwoven (or interweaved) with sighs found out their way."—Id. "Those kings and potentates who have strived (or striven.)"—Id. "That even Silence was taken."—Id. "And envious Darkness, ere they could return, had stolen them from me."—Id. "I have chosen this perfect man."—Id. "I shall scarcely think you have swum in a gondola."—Shak. cor. "The fragrant brier was woven (or weaved) between."—Dryden cor. "Then finish what you have begun."—Id. "But now the years a numerous train have run."—Pope cor. "Repeats your verses written (or writ) on glasses."—Prior cor. "Who by turns have risen."—Id. "Which from great authors I have taken."—Id. "Even there he should have fallen."—Id.

   "The sun has ris'n, and gone to bed.
    Just as if Partridge were not dead."—Swift cor.

    "And, though no marriage words are spoken,
    They part not till the ring is broken."—Swift cor.

LESSON II.—REGULARS.

"When the word is stripped of all the terminations."—Dr. Murray cor. "Forgive him, Tom; his head is cracked."—Swift cor. "For 'tis the sport, to have the engineer hoised (or hoisted) with his own petar."—Shak. cor. "As great as they are, I was nursed by their mother."—Swift cor. "If he should now be cried down since his change."—Id. "Dipped over head and ears—in debt."—Id. "We see the nation's credit cracked."—Id. "Because they find their pockets picked."—Id. "O what a pleasure mixed with pain!"—Id. "And only with her brother linked."—Id. "Because he ne'er a thought allowed, That might not be confessed."—Id. "My love to Sheelah is more firmly fixed."—Id. "The observations annexed to them will be intelligible."—Phil. Mus. cor. "Those eyes are always fixed on the general principles."—Id. "Laborious conjectures will be banished from our commentaries."—Id. "Tiridates was dethroned, and Phraates was reestablished, in his stead."—Id. "A Roman who was attached to Augustus."—Id. "Nor should I have spoken of it, unless Baxter had talked about two such."—Id. "And the reformers of language have generally rushed on."—Id. "Three centuries and a half had then elapsed since the date,"—Ib. "Of such criteria, as has been remarked already, there is an abundance."—Id. "The English have surpassed every other nation in their services."—Id. "The party addressed is next in dignity to the speaker."—Harris cor. "To which we are many times helped."—W. Walker cor. "But for him, I should have looked well enough to myself."—Id. "Why are you vexed, Lady? why do frown?"—Milton cor. "Obtruding false rules pranked in reason's garb."—Id. "But, like David equipped in Saul's armour, it is encumbered and oppressed."—Campbell cor.

   "And when their merchants are blown up, and cracked,
    Whole towns are cast away in storms, and wrecked."—Butler cor.

LESSON III.—MIXED EXAMPLES.

"The lands are held in free and common soccage."—Trumbull cor. "A stroke is drawn under such words."—Cobbett's Gr., 1st Ed. "It is struck even, with a strickle."—W. Walker cor. "Whilst I was wandering, without any care, beyond my bounds."—Id. "When one would do something, unless hindered by something present."—B. Johnson cor. "It is used potentially, but not so as to be rendered by these signs."—Id. "Now who would dote upon things hurried down the stream thus fast?"—Collier cor. "Heaven hath timely tried their growth."—Milton cor. "O! ye mistook, ye should have snatched his wand."—Id. "Of true virgin here distressed."—Id. "So that they have at last come to be substituted in the stead of it."—Barclay cor. "Though ye have lain among the pots."—Bible cor. "And, lo! in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off."—Scott's Bible, and Alger's. "Brutus and Cassius Have ridden, (or rode,) like madmen, through the gates of Rome."—Shak. cor. "He shall be spit upon."—Bible cor. "And are not the countries so overflowed still situated between the tropics?"—Bentley. "Not tricked and frounced as she was wont, But kerchiefed in a comely cloud."—Milton cor. "To satisfy his rigour, Satisfied never."—Id. "With him there crucified."—Id. "Th' earth cumbered, and the wing'd air darked with plumes."—Id. "And now their way to Earth they had descried."—Id. "Not so thick swarmed once the soil Bedropped with blood of Gorgon."—Id. "And in a troubled sea of passion tossed."—Id. "The cause, alas! is quickly guessed."—Swift cor. "The kettle to the top was hoised, or hoisted."—Id. "In chains thy syllables are linked."—Id. "Rather than thus be overtopped, Would you not wish their laurels cropped."—Id. "The HYPHEN, or CONJOINER, is a little line drawn to connect words, or parts of words."—Cobbett cor. "In the other manners of dependence, this general rule is sometimes broken."—R. Johnson cor. "Some intransitive verbs may be rendered transitive by means of a preposition prefixed to them."—Grant cor. "Whoever now should place the accent on the first syllable of Valerius, would set every body a laughing."—J. Walker cor. "Being mocked, scourged, spit upon, and crucified."—Gurney cor.

   "For rhyme in Greece or Rome was never known,
    Till barb'rous hordes those states had overthrown."—Roscommon cor.

    "In my own Thames may I be drowned,
    If e'er I stoop beneath the crowned." Or thus:—
    "In my own Thames may I be drown'd dead,
    If e'er I stoop beneath a crown'd head."—Swift cor.

CHAPTER VIII.—ADVERBS. CORRECTIONS RESPECTING THE FORMS OF ADVERBS.

"We can much more easily form the conception of a fierce combat."—Blair corrected. "When he was restored agreeably to the treaty, he was a perfect savage."—Webster cor. "How I shall acquit myself suitably to the importance