spends his rage.”—­Thomson’s Seasons, p. 34.  “Tells how the drudging goblin swet.”—­Milton’s Allegro, l. 105.  “And to his faithful champion hath in place Borne witness gloriously.”—­Milton’s Sam.  Agon., l. 1752.  “Then, if thou fall’st, O Cromwell, Thou fall’st a blessed martyr.”—­Beauties of Shakspeare, p. 173.  Better:  “Then, if thou fall, O Cromwell! thou fallst a blessed martyr.”—­Shak. and Kirk. cor. “I see the dagger-crest of Mar, I see the Moray’s silver star, Wave o’er the cloud of Saxon war, That up the lake comes winding far!”—­Scott’s Lady of the Lake, p. 162.  “Each beast, each insect, happy in its own.”—­Pope, on Man, Ep. i, l. 185. “And he that is learning to arrange his sentences with accuracy and order, is learning, at the same time, to think with accuracy and order.”—­Blair’s Lect., p. 120.  “We, then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.”—­2 Cor., vi, 1.  “And on the boundless of thy goodness calls.”—­Young’s Last Day, B. ii, l. 320.  “Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom, in minds attentive to their own.”—­Cowper’s Task, B. vi, l. 90. “O! let me listen to the words of life!”—­Thomson’s Paraphrase on Matt. vi.  “Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower.” &c.—­Gray’s Elegy, l. 9. “Weighs the men’s wits against the Lady’s hair.”—­Pope’s Rape of the Lock, Canto v, l. 72. “Till the publication of Dr.  Lowth’s small Introduction, the grammatical study of our language formed no part of the ordinary method of instruction.”—­Hiley’s Preface, p. vi.  “Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee.”—­Gen., xiii, 8.

   “What! canst thou not forbear me half an hour?”—­Shakspeare.

    “Till then who knew the force of those dire arms?”—­Milton.

    “In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold;
    Alike fantastic, if too new or old: 
    Be not the first by whom the new are tried
    Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.”—­Pope, on Criticism, l. 333.

UNDER CRITICAL NOTE XIII.—­OF AWKWARDNESS.

“They slew Varus, whom I mentioned before.”—­L.  Murray cor. “Maria rejected Valerius, whom she had rejected before.”  Or:  “Maria rejected Valerius a second time.”—­Id. “In the English language, nouns have but two different terminations for cases.”—­Churchill’s Gram., p. 64.  “Socrates and Plato were the wisest men, and the most eminent philosophers in Greece.”—­Buchanan’s Gram., Pref., p. viii.  “Whether more