“Nay, i live as i did, i think as i did, i love you as i did; but all these are to no purpose:  the world will not live, think, or love, as i do.”—­Swift, varied.  “Whither, o! whither shall i fly? o wretched prince! o cruel reverse of fortune! o father Micipsa! is this the consequence of thy generosity?”—­Sallust, varied.  “When i was a child, i spake as a child, i understood as a child, i thought as a child; but when i became a man, i put away childish things.”—­1 Cor., xiii, 11, varied.  “And i heard, but i understood not:  then said i, o my Lord, what shall be the end of these things?”—­Dan., xii, 8, varied.  “Here am i; i think i am very good, and i am quite sure i am very happy, yet i never wrote a treatise in my life.”—­Few Days in Athens, varied.  “Singular, Vocative, o master; Plural, Vocative, o masters.”—­Bicknell’s Gram., p. 30.

   “I, i am he; o father! rise, behold
    Thy son, with twenty winters now grown old!”—­See Pope’s Odyssey.

UNDER RULE XIII.—­OF POETRY.

   “Reason’s whole pleasure, all the joys of sense,
    lie in three words—­health, peace, and competence;
    but health consists with temperance alone,
    and peace, O Virtue! peace is all thy own.”
        Pope’s Essay on Man, a fine London Edition.

[FORMULE.—­Not proper, because the last three lines of this example begin with small letters.  But, according to Rule 18th, “Every line in poetry, except what is regarded as making but one verse with the preceding line, should begin with a capital.”  Therefore, the words, “Lie,” “But,” and “And,” at the commencement of these lines, should severally begin with the capitals L, B, and A.]

   “Observe the language well in all you write,
    and swerve not from it in your loftiest flight. 
    The smoothest verse and the exactest sense
    displease us, if ill English give offence: 
    a barbarous phrase no reader can approve;
    nor bombast, noise, or affectation love. 
    In short, without pure language, what you write
    can never yield us profit or delight. 
    Take time for thinking, never work in haste;
    and value not yourself for writing fast.” 
        See Dryden’s Art of Poetry:—­British Poets, Vol. iii, p. 74.

UNDER RULE XIV.—­OF EXAMPLES.

“The word rather is very properly used to express a small degree or excess of a quality:  as, ’she is rather profuse in her expenses.’”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 47.

[FORMULE.—­Not proper, because the word she begins with a small letter.  But, according to Rule 14th, “The first word of a full example, of a distinct speech, or of a direct quotation, should begin with a capital.”  Therefore, the word “She” should here begin with a capital S.]