13.  He is, let him live where else he like, in what pomps and
prosperities he like, no literary man.

14.  Could we one day complete the immense figure which these
flagrant points compose!

15.  “Oh, then, my dear madam,” cried he, “tell me where I may
find my poor, ruined, but repentant child.”

16.  That sheaf of darts, will it not fall unbound,
Except, disrobed of thy vain earthly vaunt,
Thou bring it to be blessed where saints and angels haunt?

17.  Forget thyself to marble, till
With a sad leaden downward cast
Thou fix them on the earth as fast.

18.  He, as though an instrument,
Blew mimic hootings to the silent owls,
That they might answer him.

19.  From the moss violets and jonquils peep,
And dart their arrowy odor through the brain,
Till you might faint with that delicious pain.

20.  That a man parade his doubt, and get to imagine that debating
and logic is the triumph and true work of what intellect he has;
alas! this is as if you should overturn the tree.

21.  The fat earth feed thy branchy root
That under deeply strikes! 
The northern morning o’er thee shoot,
High up in silver spikes!

22.  Though abyss open under abyss, and opinion displace opinion,
all are at last contained in the Eternal cause.

23.  God send Rome one such other sight!

24.  “Mr. Marshall,” continued Old Morgan, “see that no one
mentions the United States to the prisoner.”

25.  If there is only one woman in the nation who claims the right
to vote, she ought to have it.

     26.  Though he were dumb, it would speak.

27.  Meantime, whatever she did,—­whether it were in display of her own matchless talents, or whether it were as one member of a general party,—­nothing could exceed the amiable, kind, and unassuming deportment of Mrs. Siddons.

     28.  It makes a great difference to the force of any sentence
     whether there be a man behind it or no.

(b) Find sentences with five verbs in the indicative mood, five in the subjunctive, five in the imperative.

TENSE.

[Sidenote:  Definition.]

233. Tense means time.  The tense of a verb is the form or use indicating the time of an action or being.

[Sidenote:  Tenses in English.]

Old English had only two tenses,—­the present tense, which represented present and future time; and the past tense.  We still use the present for the future in such expressions as, “I go away to-morrow;” “If he comes, tell him to wait.”

But English of the present day not only has a tense for each of the natural time divisions,—­present, past, and future,—­but has other tenses to correspond with those of highly inflected languages, such as Latin and Greek.