4. They were all armed by this time, I thought. 5. Some had come too late and were shut out. 6. I could eat no dinner and felt constrained to wa red coals in the grate. 7. It was high time to make the wassail. 8. I must decline to impart the only secret I wa known to have kept. 9. I would trust the waiter with untold gold. 10. Her beauty has been wrecked in some great misfo 11. The supper was done, and my brown beauty had elevated on the table. 12. We ought to take hands as we sit here, in defe to the toast. 13. My story being finished, we broke up as the struck twelve. 14. I should like to see one of the canons. 15. We tumbled into all the cold water that could accumulated. 16. He could not have been gone more than an hour w I fell asleep. 17. Sir, if thou hast borne him hence, tell me where t hast laid him. 18. Did they not lay the sick where his shadow might on them? 19. The letter might have been written, but it could ne have been sent. 20. I was being rapidly whirled toward London, thou I did not know it. 21. We are not what we might have been, yet we mu be content. 22. Push forward till thou stand once more upon th native soil. 23. They fear lest the blood of the royal martyr be visite on them and their children. 24. We cannot censure Milton for not wishing to change his opinion. 25. If anything more were wanted, the book of Salmasius would furnish it. 26. He never seems to have coveted despotic power. 27. He that runs may read; but he that walks may misinterpret. 28. Having been duly elected, he quietly assumed the duties of his office. 29. Ye should have snatched his rod and bound him fast. 30. We can fancy that we are visiting him in his small lodgings. 31. When we shall have completed our work, a suitable recompense will be made. 32. One of the seven was accustomed to say: "Laws are like cobwebs; the small flies are caught, and the great ones break through. 33. If you would learn to write, you must learn it in the street. 34. How goes it now, sir? If it be summer news, smile to it before; if winterly, thou needst keep thy countenance still. 35. Be aye sticking in a tree, Jack; it will be growing while you are sleeping. 36. The orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the rhetorician can prove that he ought to have carried all with him, when he has persuaded nobody. 37. Take heed lest passion sway thy judgment to do aught which else free will would not permit. 38. May I govern my passions with absolute sway, And grow wiser and better as my strength wears away. (Further material may be found in the exercises after the nanti. V. ADVERBS Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs. Adverbs They may also modify a preposition introducing a phrase, the whole phrase, or an entire clause or sen According to their form, adverbs are simple, deriva- Simple, etc. tive, compound; simple, when traceable to no other word in the language; derivative, when made from other words by prefixes, suffixes, or internal change; compound, when formed by the union of two or more independent words: On the basis of their meaning, adverbs are of several classes classes. Manner and quality Measure and degree thus so quickly well ill softly bravely seriou Adverbs of measure and degree: Number Comparison Modality Adverbs of comparison: So as too the only sufficiently enough Uses Adverbs may be again classified according to the Pure use. Conjunctive Pure adverbs are used only as modifiers: now soon thus really surely twice fast Conjunctive or relative adverbs connect a modifyin clause with the modified word, and modify a word usually the verb, in this clause : Interrogative Interrogative adverbs ask a question, direct or in direct, and modify some word in the question: when where whence whither why how |