14. While bad men snatch the pleasures of the world. as if by stealth, without countenance from the great Proprietor of the world, the righteous sit openly down to the feast of life, under the smile of approving heaven.Blair.

15. When thou comparest thy condition with thy desert, blush and be ashamed of thy complaints.—Id.

16. When there is nothing from without to disturb the prosperous, a secret poison operates within.-Id.

17. When we look around us on the world, we everywhere behold a busy multitude intent on the prosecution of various designs, which their wants: or desires have suggested. Id.

18. When man revolted from his Maker, his passions rebelled against himself.—Id.

19. Since the time that reason began to exert her powers, thought during our waking hours has been active in every breast, without a moment's suspension or pause.—Id.

Section 10.

Predicate adjectives may be placed by transposition before nouns and pronouns which they qualify.

EXAMPLES.

1. [(a)] Unmoved, the embodied Greeks their fury dare,

And [(a)] fixed, [(b)] support the weight of all the war.-Pope's Hom. Iliad.

NATURAL ORDER.

The embodied Greeks being unmoved, dare their fury, etc.

(a) Supply "being." (b) Supply "they."

2. Thus, [] obstinate to death, they fight, they fall; Nor these can keep, nor those can win the wall.Id.

Section 11.

Adjectives may be placed by transposition after their nouns.

EXAMPLES.

1. A character so exalted, so strenuous, so various, so authoritative, astonished a corrupt age; and the treasury trembled at the name of Pitt, through all its classes of venality.-Robertson.

NATURAL ORDER.

So exalted, so strenuous, so various, so authoritative a character astonished a corrupt age, etc.

2. On the cold cheek of death smiles and roses are blending,

And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.

3. The soul of origin divine,

In heaven's eternal sphere shine

A star of day.-Montgomery.

4. When yonder spheres sublime,

Pealed their first notes to sound the march of time.-Campbell.

Section 12.

Participles may be placed by transposition before their subjects.

EXAMPLES.

1. Refusing to hear any thing from me, or to take any thing from the physician, he lay silent, as far as sudden darts of pain would permit, till the clock struck.-Young.

NATURAL ORDER.

He refusing, etc., lay silent.

2. Observing that his friend was much touched, even to tears, he said, "Keep those tears for thyself."-Id.

3. Thine are the people and the city of Granada: yielding to thy prowess, they yet confide in thy mercy.Bulwer.

4. Joining his companions, he [Boabdil] proceeded without delay upon his melancholy path.—Id.

ARTICLE XXIII.

ELLIPSIS.

Section 1.

Ellipsis of the subject.

EXAMPLES.

1. We entered boldly, and [] had not proceeded far before the supposed statue of a giant presented itself to our view.

2. If any one would sing, he attends a master, [] is drilled in the very elementary principles, and only after the most laborious process dares [] to exercise his voice in public.-Ware.

3. She cast her eyes upon herself, then turned them upon those that were present, to see how they liked her, and often looked on the figure [which] she made in her own shadow.-Tattler.

Section 2.

Ellipsis of the verb.

EXAMPLES.

1. O sailor boy, sailor boy, peace [] to thy soul. 2. Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note [],

As his corse to the rampart we hurried.-Wolfe. 3. Yet a few days [(a)], and thee the all-beholding sun Shall see no more in all his course.

(a) Supply "shall elapse."

4. They shall wither as the green herb [ ].

5. Some boasted of one thing, and some [ ] of another.

6. Let Virgil sing the praises of Augustus, [] genius celebrate merit, and [] flattery extol the talents of the great, I sing the virtues of Flor Silin.

7. Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath babblings? who hath redness of eyes? They that tarry long at the wine [(a)].

(a) Supply "have woe, have sorrow, have babblings, and have redness of eyes."

8. Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope [] in his local manners.

9. The style of Dryden is capricious and varied; that of Pope, [] cautious and uniform.

10. Her beauty was natural and easy; her person [ ] clean and unspotted; her eyes [] cast toward the ground with an agreeable reserve; her motion and behavior [ ] full of modesty, and her raiment [ ] as white as snow.

11. Strength departed from his hands, and agility [] from his feet.-Johnson.

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12. There was nothing for memory to dwell on (a) that could soothe the pang of separation; [1] none of

those tender though melancholy circumstances which endear the parting scene; [2] nothing to melt sorrow into those blessed tears, sent like the dews of heaven to revive the heart in the anguish of the parting hour.

(a) To dwell on is a verb; comp., irreg., trans., inf., pres., relating to mind as its subject, and governing which understood as its object. For memory to dwell on is an abridgment of the sentence on which memory might dwell.

NOTE. The ellipsis marked [1] should be supplied with "there were," and that marked [2] with "there was."

Section 3.

Ellipsis of the auxiliary.

EXAMPLES.

1. Every debt would be paid; every commodity [] sold at its just value; every article of merchandise [] exhibited in its true character; every promise [] faithfully performed; every dispute [] amicably adjusted ; every man's character [ ] held in just estimation; every rogue and cheat [] banished from society, and the whole world [] transformed into an abode of honesty and peace.

2. Before that assembly every man's good deeds will be declared, and his most secret sins [] disclosed.

3. The sinner is moved and [] shaken by every wind of fortune.-Blair.

4. He [the upright man] can wrap himself up in a good conscience, and [] look forward without terror to the end of the world.-Blair.

5. The righteous man flourishes like a tree which is not only admired by all for its beauty, but [] blessed by the traveler for shade, and by the hungry for the sustenance it hath given.—Blair.