26. Unless a love of virtue light the flame,

Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame.-COWPER.

27. A lie is nothing unless one supports it.—SHERIDAN, The Rivals

ii. 1. 41-2.

28. Although a woman be not actually in love, she seldom hears without a blush the name of a man whom she might love.-COOPER, The Spy iv.

29. I think the very sight of a prince, though he travels incognito, turns their honest heads.-BULWER, The Lady of Lyons iii. 1. Break one string,

30.

A second is in readiness.

-COLERIDGE, The Piccolomini ii. 1. 71–2. 31. I would not, were I fifty times a prince, be a pensioner on the dead.-BULWER, The Lady of Lyons ii. 1.

32. Each word of kindness, come whence it may, is welcome to the poor.-LONGFELLOW.

33. Whether it be owing to such poetical associations or whether there is a sympathetic revival and budding forth of the feelings at this season, certain it is that I always experience a delightful expansion of the heart at the return of May.-IRVING, Bracebridge Hall. 34. Howe'er it be, it seems to me,

'Tis only noble to be good.

-TENNYSON, Lady Clara Vere de Vere. 35. I shall be happy, whatever befalls us.-BULWER, Caxtons xi. 1. 36. Doubt not but I will use my utmost skill

So that the Pope attend to your complaint.

-SHELLEY, The Cenci i. 2. 41-2.

37. Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee.

-MILTON, Paradise Lost vii. 545. 38. The world, by what I learn, is no stranger to your generosity. -GOLDSMITH, Vicar.

39. I hear that Lord Skindeep made a speech.―JERROLD, Bubbles i. I.

40. Cicero, in a letter to Marcellus in exile, reminds him, Wherever you are, remember that you are equally in the power of the conqueror.-GIBBON, Decline ii.

41. The drums are beating;

"Silence!" he cries . . . He mounts the scaffold; . . . he is in a puce coat. He strips off the coat; stands disclosed. The executioners approach to bind him; he spurns, resists.-CARLYLE, French Revolution iii. 2. 8.

42. Rarely did the wrongs of individuals come to the knowledge of the public.-MACAULAY, History of England i. 32.

43. As vainly did the citizens of Saragossa stand up against Philip the Second.-MACAULAY, History of England i. 42.

...

44. I do wish . . . that this cruel war was at an end.-COOPER, The Spy i. I.

45. Could angels envy, they had envied here;

And some did envy.-YOUNG, Night Thoughts iv. 443-4. 46. I think he might have mended;

And he did mend.-LONGFELLOW.

47. And did not she herself revile me there?

-SHAKESPEARE, Comedy of Errors iv. 4. 75. 48. Monmouth did not lead a mere mob to attack good soldiers. -MACAULAY, History of England ii. 181.

49. She left not her mistress so easy.-FIELDING, Joseph Andrews i. 9.

50. The distance exceeds not a hundred miles.-GIBBON, Decline vi. 51. Does the harp of Rosa slumber?-MOORE.

52. Did he pass this way?-SHELLEY, The Cenci ii. 1. 12. 53. Talk they of mortals?-YOUNG, Night Thoughts iv. 781. 54. Seest thou yon dreary plain?-MILTON, Paradise Lost i. 180. 55. Do lay aside that rascally saw.-COOPER, The Spy ix. 56. Nay, do not quarrel with us.-SHAKESPEARE, Much Ado v. I. 50. 57. Blame not this haste of mine.

-SHAKESPEARE, Twelfth Night iv. 3. 22. 58. I'm afraid we've been very rude to Sir Frederick.-BULWER, Money iv. 5.

59. The people have long unlearned the use of arms.-MACAULAY, History of England i. 33.

60. I have been infinitely more affected in English cathedrals, when the organ has been playing, and in many English churches when the congregation has been singing.-DICKENS, Pictures from Italy.

61. Jacob Bunting . . . had been for many years in the king's service, in which he had risen to the rank of corporal, and had saved and pinched together a small independence.-BULWER, Eugene Aram i. I.

62. So, nevertheless, it was and had been.—CARLYLE, The French Revolution i. 1. 2.

63. I did not think we had been so near Scotland.—SCOTT, Rob Roy vii.

64. If the girl had been one of those vain trollops I should have condemned my brother for his levity toward her.-FIELDING, Tom Jones i. 8.

65. Had you thus stepped before me in the heat of battle, I should have cloven you down. KNOWLES, Virginius i. 1.

66. Two sisters by the goal are set.-SCOTT, Bridal ii. 3. 24. 67. By his side is hung a seal.-BYRON, Childe Harold i. 24. 68. The scene was now become animated and horrible.-Scott, Quentin Durward xxxvii.

69. Men are grown impatient of reproof.

-JONSON, Every Man Out of His Humour, Induction. 70. The minstrel boy to the war is gone.-MOORE.

71. You have heard why we are met together.-BULWER, Rienzi ii. 3.

72. The Lord is arisen.-LONGFELLOW.

73. Old Sir Charles is arrived.-GOLDSMITH, She Stoops v.

74. The horsemen are returned.-ADDISON, Cato v. 4.

75. We are descended from ancestors that know no stain.-GoldSMITH, Vicar xvi.

76. She was flown her master's range.—BYRON, The Giaour.

77. True-time will seam and blanch my brow

Well, I shall sit with aged men,

And my good glass will tell me, how

A grizzly beard becomes me then.-BRYANT.

78. For when I shall have brought them into the land, and they shall have eaten and filled themselves and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods.-Deuteronomy xxxi. 20.

79. Before this time to-morrow I shall have gained a peerage, or Westminster Abbey.-SOUTHEY, Nelson.

80. She stipulated with her servants that they were not to trouble her with afflicting news.-LEWES.

81. Is he about to show us any play?-GAY, Beggar's Opera ii. 1. 82. He was not in the frame of mind which befits one who is about to strike a decisive blow.-MACAULAY, History of England ii.

175.

83.

Yet must he wander on,
Till cold and hunger set his spirit free!
And, rising, he began his dreary round.

-ROGERS, Italy, Jorasse.

84. Differences arose, as they will amongst all communities of the kind.-LEWES, History of Philosophy ii. 6.

85. The expression of his features would vary so rapidly. it was useless to trace them to their source.-BYRON.

86. To-day the tyrant shall perish.-BULWER, Rienzi v. 3. 87. "I come, great duke, for justice."

"You shall have it."-TOBIN, The Honey Moon.

88. Pray, Alice, pray, my darling wife.

That we may die the self-same day.

that

-TENNYSON, The Miller's Daughter.

89. They apprehended that he might have been carried off by gipsies. SOUTHEY, Nelson.

90. I'll so far take on me as order that you may be omitted.BYRON.

91. Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.—Exodus xx. 12. 92.

I,

Although my opinion may require apology,
Deem this a commentator's phantasy.

-BYRON, Don Juan iii. 11.

93. Whatever might have been Sophia's sensations, the rest of the family was easily consoled.-GOLDSMITH, Vicar xvi.

94. It was his secret wish that he might have been prevailed on to accompany me.-BYRON.

95.

Did I hate thee, I

Would bid thee strike, that I might be avenged.

...

-BULWER, Richelieu iii. 2.

96. If vanity were the fit thing, I might indulge some on the same occasion.-FIELDING.

97. I knew it would be your answer.-SHAKESPEARE, Much Ado iii. 3. 18-19.

98. He was most enraged lest such

An accident should chance to touch
Upon his future pedigree.-BYRON.

99. I should very imperfectly execute the task which I have undertaken if I were merely to treat of battles and sieges.-MACAULAY, History of England i. 3.

100. I thought I should have seen some Hercules.

—SHAKESPEARE, I Henry VI ii. 3. 19. 101. I should not have thought it a joke had you not told me.GOLDSMITH, Vicar xv.

102. We have enjoyed what almost any other nation in the world would have considered as an ample measure of civil and religious freedom.-MACAULAY, History of England i. 276.

103. We still do worship in vain, are yet in our sins, and finally shall be damned.-BUNYAN, The Pilgrim's Progress.

104. The agitation was still mainly in the higher classes, but it was gradually descending to the lower.-LEWES, Goethe i. 15. 106. My heart is breaking.-TENNYSON.

107. Is she coming to herself? Her eyes are opening.-COLERIDGE, Wallenstein iv. 3. 12.

108. If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well

It were done quickly.-SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth i. 7. 1−2.

CHAPTER VII

ADVERBS

CLASSES

159. ADVERBS are words which modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs.

The notions expressed by adverbs are these:

a. Place: here, there, down, up.

b. Time: then, now, already, soon.

c. Manner: how, thus, kindly, eagerly.

d. Cause: why, therefore, wherefore.

e. Measure and degree: much, little, almost, greatly, partly.

f. The modal notion, or the manner in which the speaker regards the thought. Such adverbs belong more to the whole assertion than to any single word in it.

I. Confirmation: surely, indeed.
II. Negation: not, hardly, scarcely.
III. Potential: possibly, perhaps.

g. Other adverbial notions are those of concession, condition, purpose, result. These are more often expressed by wordgroups (phrases and clauses) than by single words.

1. After all [concession], I think I shall go.

2. If that is true [condition], I shall soon go away.

3. I came to bring you these books [purpose].

4. She pushed back her bonnet, so that her face was visible [result].

NOTE 1. When the predicate of a sentence consists of a verb and complement, the adverb is often an adjunct of the whole predicate, and not of the verb alone. This is particularly true when the verb is the copula, which has hardly enough meaning in itself to be modified.

Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives.—2 Samuel i. 23.