dim, or bedim; gird, or begird; lure, or allure; move, or emove; reave, or bereave; vails, or avails; vanish, or evanish; wail, or bewail; weep, or beweep; wilder, or bewilder:--
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
Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme."
--Milton.
2. "For not, to have been dipp'd in Lethè 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 accumulation: as,
1. "He came, and, standing in the midst, explain'd
The peace rejected, but the truce obtain'd."
--Pope.
2. "As a poor miserable captive thrall
Comes to the place where he before had sat
Among the prime in splendor, now depos'd,
Ejected, emptied, gaz'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 sometimes ascribe actions, or active properties, to things 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 from forth their alleys green."
--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."
--Thomson.
5. "Robs me of that which not enriches him."
--Shakspeare.
XXXV. They sometimes omit the introductory adverb there: as,
"Was nought around but images of rest."
--Thomson.
XXXVI. They briefly compare actions by a kind of compound adverbs, ending in like; as,
"Who bid the stork, Columbus-like, explore
Heavens not his own, and worlds unknown before?"
--Pope.
XXXVII. They employ the CONJUNCTIONS, or--or, and nor--nor, as correspondents; as,
1. "Or by the lazy Scheldt or wandering Po."
--Goldsmith.
2. "Wealth heap'd on wealth, nor truth, nor safety buys."
--Johnson.
3. "Who by repentance is not satisfied,
Is nor of heaven, nor earth; for these are pleas'd."
--Shakspeare.
4. "Toss it, or to the fowls, or to the flames."
--Young, N. T., p. 157.
5. "Nor shall the pow'rs of hell, nor wastes of time,
Or vanquish, or destroy."
--Gibbon's Elegy on Davies.
XXXVIII. They oftener place PREPOSITIONS and their adjuncts, before the words on which they depend, than do prose writers; as,
"Against your fame with fondness hate combines;
The rival batters, and the lover mines."
--Dr. Johnson.
XXXIX. They sometimes place a long or dissyllabic preposition after its object; as,
1. "When beauty, Eden's bowers within,
First stretched the arm to deeds of sin,
When passion burn'd and prudence slept,
The pitying angels bent and wept."
--James Hogg.
