III.  Subjunctive of Result.

224.  The subjunctive may represent the result toward which an action tends:—­

     So many thoughts move to and fro,
     That vain it were her eyes to close. 
     —­COLERIDGE.

     So live, that when thy summons comes to join
     The innumerable caravan... 
     Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night. 
     —­BRYANT.

IV.  In Temporal Clauses.

225.  The English subjunctive, like the Latin, is sometimes used in a clause to express the time when an action is to take place.

     Let it rise, till it meet the sun in his coming.—­D.  WEBSTER.

     Rise up, before it be too late!—­HAWTHORNE.

     But it will not be long
     Ere this be thrown aside. 
     —­WORDSWORTH.

V. In Indirect Questions.

226.  The subjunctive is often found in indirect questions, the answer being regarded as doubtful.

     Ask the great man if there be none greater.—­EMERSON

     What the best arrangement were, none of us could say.—­CARLYLE.

     Whether it were morning or whether it were afternoon, in her
     confusion she had not distinctly known.—­DE QUINCEY.

VI.  Expressing a Wish.

227.  After a verb of wishing, the subjunctive is regularly used in the dependent clause.

     The transmigiation of souls is no fable.  I would it were! 
     —­EMERSON.

     Bright star!  Would I were steadfast as thou art!—­KEATS.

I’ve wished that little isle had wings, And we, within its fairy bowers, Were wafted off to seas unknown.  —­MOORE.

VII.  In a Noun Clause.

[Sidenote:  Subject.]

228.  The noun clause, in its various uses as subject, object, in apposition, etc., often contains a subjunctive.

     The essence of originality is not that it be new.—­CARLYLE

[Sidenote:  Apposition or logical subject.]

     To appreciate the wild and sharp flavors of those October fruits,
     it is necessary that you be breathing the sharp October or
     November air.—­THOREAU.

[Sidenote:  Complement.]

     The first merit, that which admits neither substitute nor
     equivalent, is, that everything be in its place.—­COLERIDGE.

[Sidenote:  Object.]

     As sure as Heaven shall rescue me, I have no thought what men
     they be.—­COLERIDGE.

     Some might lament that I were cold.—­SHELLEY.