3. O fair foundation laid whereon to build Their ruin. 4. The wall tottered, and had well nigh fallen righ on their heads.-Coleridge. 5 What! canst thou not bear with me half an hour? 6 Be not so greedy of popular applause, as to forge! that the same breath which blows up a fire, may blow it out again. 7. I understand him better than to suppose he will relin quish his design. 8. He delivered his brother into their hands, to be recognized as the lawful heir of the crown. 9. We being exceedingly tossed, they lightened the ship 10. What could I do, 11. Ah, gentle pair! ye little think how nigh Your change approaches, when all these delights Will vanish, and deliver ye to wo, More wo, the more your taste is now for joy Long to continue.—Id. 12. Account me man; I for his sake will leave Thy bosom.-Id. 13. The rest shall hear me call, and oft be warned Their sinful state.—Id. 14. He ceased, for both seemed highly pleased and Death Grinned horribly a ghastly smile, to hear His famine should be filled.-Milton. With impetuous recoil and jarring sound Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate 17. This said, he sat; and expectation held His look suspense.—Id. 18. Whatever doing, what can we suffer more? What can we suffer worse?-Id. 19. Which when Beelzebub perceived, than whom Satan except, none higher sat, with grave Aspect he arose.-Id. 20. Deliver us from the nauseous repetition of as and so, which some so so writers, I may call them so, are continually sounding in our ears.-Felton. 21. All the conspirators save only he Did what they did in envy of great Cæsar.—Shakspeare. 22. Night shades the groves, and all in silence lie, All save the mournful Philomel and I.—Young. 23 The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled.-Hemans. 24. The bells sounded soft and pensive.—Chandler. 25. You have not thought it worth your labo, to enter a professed dissent against philosophy. 26. Whatsoever is worthy of their love is worth their anger. 27. It is worth while to consider how admirably he bar turned the course of his narration.-Addison. 28. To bring action to extremity, and then recover all will cost him many a pang-Dryden. 29. While yet we live, scarce one short hour perhaps, Between us (wo, let ere be peace both joining.--Milton. 30. Me miserable! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair?—Id. 31. Ay me! they little know How dearly I abide that boast so vain.—Id. 32. Well, sir, said I, how did you like little Miss? I hope she was fine enough.—Bos. Life of Johnson. 33. Can I this world esteem? How soon its honors vanish! Its joys a lying name!-Pfefferkorn. 34 The landlord says it is Luther himself." Perhaps," returned his companion, "he said Hutten ?"—" Probably so," said Kessler; "I may have mistaken the one name for the other, for they resemble each other in sound.-D'Aubigne. 35. Thou sittest, no longer, a queen in thy bower, But a widow; of sons and of daughters bereft Yet despair not, thou desolate one! for thy dower 36. Hark! the notes, on my ear that play, Are set to words:-as they float they say, “Passing away! passing away!"-Id. 37. Alas! madam, said he, one day, how few books are there, of which one ever can possibly arrive at the last page -Johnson. 38. Pausing a while, thus to herself she mused.—Milton 39. The monument is more than a hundred cubits high. 40. They are so happy that they do not know what* to do with themselves.—Paley. 41. I have more by half, than I know what to do with. 42. They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk; all but the wakeful nightingale. She all night long her am'rous descant sung.-Milton. 43. Homeward bound! with deep emotion, Is a voyage upon an ocean, Be 1hy statutes so engraven Anchoring in Death's quiet haven, All may make our home with thee.-Pierpont. The word what appears to be used here adverbially in the sense of how. The expression "know not what to do," "what to do with," &c. are explained by some as elliptical; as follows: They are so happy that they do not know that which [they are able] tc de, &c. |