XVII. They use the forms of the second person singular oftener than do
others; as,
1. "Yet I had rather, if I were to chuse,
Thy service in some graver subject use,
Such as may make thee search thy coffers round,
Before thou clothe my fancy in fit sound."
--Milton's Works, p. 133.
2. "But thou, of temples old, or altars new,
Standest alone--with nothing like to thee."
--Byron, Pilg., iv, 154.
3. "Thou seest not all; but piecemeal thou must break,
To separate contemplation, the great whole."
--Id., ib., iv, 157.
4. "Thou rightly deemst, fair youth, began the bard;
The form then sawst was Virtue ever fair."
--Pollok, C. of T., p. 16.
XVIII. They sometimes omit relatives that are nominatives; (see Obs. 22, at p. 555;) as,
"For is there aught in sleep can charm the wise?"
--Thomson.
XIX. They omit the antecedent, or introduce it after the relative; as,
1. "Who never fasts, no banquet e'er enjoys,
Who never toils or watches, never sleeps."
--Armstrong.
2. "Who dares think one thing and an other tell,
My soul detests him as the gates of hell."
--Pope's Homer.
XX. They remove relatives, or other connectives, into the body of their clauses; as,
1. "Parts the fine locks, her graceful head that deck."
--Darwin.
2. "Not half so dreadful rises to the sight
Orion's dog, the year when autumn weighs."
--Pope, Iliad, B. xxii, l. 37.
XXI. They make intransitive VERBS transitive, changing their class; as,
1. ----"A while he stands,
Gazing the inverted landscape, half afraid
To meditate the blue profound below."
--Thomson.
2. "Still in harmonious intercourse, they liv'd
The rural day, and talk'd the flowing heart."
--Idem.
3. ----"I saw and heard, for we sometimes
Who dwell this wild, constrain'd by want, come forth."
--Milton, P. R., B. i, l. 330.
XXII. They make transitive verbs intransitive, giving them no regimen; as,
1. "The soldiers should have toss'd me on their pikes,
Before I would have granted to that act."
--Shakspeare.
2. "This minstrel-god, well-pleased, amid the quire
Stood proud to hymn, and tune his youthful lyre."
--Pope.
XXIII. They give to the imperative mood the first and the third person; as,
1. "Turn we a moment fancy's rapid flight."
--Thomson.
2. "Be man's peculiar work his sole delight."
--Beattie.
3. "And what is reason? Be she thus defin'd:
Reason is upright stature in the soul."
--Young.
XXIV. They employ can, could, and would, as principal verbs transitive; as,
1. "What for ourselves we can, is always ours."
--Anon.
2. "Who does the best his circumstance allows,
Does well, acts nobly; angels could no more."
--Young.
3. "What would this man? Now upward will he soar,
And, little less than angel, would be more."
--Pope.
XXV. They place the infinitive before the word on which it depends; as,
1. "When first thy sire to send on earth
Virtue, his darling child, design'd"
--Gray.
2. "As oft as I, to kiss the flood, decline;
So oft his lips ascend, to close with mine."
--Sandys.
3. "Besides, Minerva, to secure her care,
Diffus'd around a veil of thicken'd air."
--Pope.
XXVI. They place the auxiliary verb after its principal, by hyperbaton; as,
1. "No longer heed the sunbeam bright
That plays on Carron's breast he can"
--Langhorne.
2. "Follow I must, I cannot go before."
--Beauties of Shakspeare, p. 147.
3. "The man who suffers, loudly may complain;
And rage he may, but he shall rage in vain."
--Pope.
XXVII. Before verbs, they sometimes arbitrarily employ or omit prefixes: as, bide, or abide;
