Chapter VII: Participles

CORRECTIONS IN THE FORMS OF PARTICIPLES.

LESSON I.--IRREGULARS.

"Many of your readers have _mistaken_ that passage."--_Steele cor._ "Had not my dog of a steward _run_ away."--_Addison cor._ "None should be admitted, except he had _broken_ his collarbone thrice."--_Id._ "We could not know what was _written_ at twenty."--_Waller cor._ "I have _written_, thou hast _written_, he has _written_; we have _written_, you have _written_, they have _written_."--_Ash cor._ "As if God had _spoken_ his last words there to his people."--_Barclay cor._ "I had like to have _come_ in that ship myself."--_Observer cor._ "Our ships and vessels being _driven_ out of the harbour by a storm."--_Hutchinson cor._ "He will endeavour to write as the ancient author would have _written_, had he _written_ in the same language."--_Bolingbroke cor._ "When his doctrines grew too strong to be _shaken_ by his enemies."--_Atterbury cor._ "The immortal mind that hath _forsaken_ her mansion."--_Milton cor._ "Grease that's _sweated_ (or _sweat_) from the murderer's gibbet, throw into the flame."--_Shak. cor._ "The court also was _chidden_ (or _chid_) for allowing such questions to be put."--_Stone cor._ "He would have _spoken_."--_Milton cor._ "Words _interwoven_ (or _interweaved_) with sighs found out their way."--_Id._ "Those kings and potentates who have _strived_ (or _striven_.)"--_Id._ "That even Silence was _taken_."--_Id._ "And envious Darkness, ere they could return, had _stolen_ them from me."--_Id._ "I have _chosen_ this perfect man."--_Id._ "I _shall scarcely_ think you have _swum_ in a gondola."--_Shak. cor._ "The fragrant brier was _woven_ (or _weaved_) between."--_Dryden cor._ "Then finish what you have _begun_."--_Id._ "But now the years a numerous train have _run_."--_Pope cor._ "Repeats your verses _written_ (or _writ_) on glasses."--_Prior cor._ "Who by turns have _risen_."--_Id._ "Which from great authors I have taken."--_Id._ "Even there he should have _fallen_."--_Id._

"The sun has _ris'n_, and gone to bed.
Just as if Partridge were not dead."--_Swift cor._

"And, though no marriage words are _spoken_,
They part not till the ring is _broken_."--_Swift cor._

LESSON II.--REGULARS.

"When the word is _stripped_ of all the terminations."--_Dr. Murray cor._ "Forgive him, Tom; his head is _cracked_."--_Swift cor._ "For 'tis the sport, to have the engineer _hoised_ (or _hoisted_) with his own petar."--_Shak. cor._ "As great as they are, I was _nursed_ by their mother."--_Swift cor._ "If he should now be _cried_ down since his change."--_Id. "Dipped_ over head and ears--in debt."--_Id._ "We see the nation's credit _cracked_."--_Id._ "Because they find their pockets _picked_."--_Id._ "O what a pleasure _mixed_ with pain!"--_Id._ "And only with her brother _linked_."--_Id._ "Because he ne'er a thought allowed, That might not be _confessed_."--_Id._ "My love to Sheelah is more firmly _fixed_."--_Id._ "The observations _annexed_ to them will be intelligible."--_Phil. Mus. cor._ "Those eyes are always _fixed_ on the general principles."--_Id._ "Laborious conjectures will be _banished_ from our commentaries."--_Id._ "Tiridates was dethroned, and Phraates was _reestablished_, in his stead."--_Id._ "A Roman who was _attached_ to Augustus."--_Id._ "Nor should I have spoken of it, unless Baxter had _talked_ about two such."--_Id._ "And the reformers of language have generally _rushed_ on."--_Id._ "Three centuries and a half had then _elapsed_ since the date,"--_Ib._ "Of such criteria, as has been _remarked_ already, there is an abundance."--_Id._ "The English have _surpassed_ every other nation in their services."--_Id._ "The party _addressed_ is next in dignity to the speaker."--_Harris cor._ "To which we are many times _helped_."--_W. Walker cor._ "But for him, I should have _looked_ well enough to myself."--_Id._ "Why are you _vexed_, Lady? why do frown?"--_Milton cor._ "Obtruding false rules _pranked_ in reason's garb."--_Id._ "But, like David _equipped_ in Saul's armour, it is encumbered and oppressed."--_Campbell cor._

"And when their merchants are blown up, and _cracked_,
Whole towns are cast away in storms, and _wrecked_."--_Butler cor._

LESSON III.--MIXED EXAMPLES.

"The lands are _held_ in free and common soccage."--_Trumbull cor._ "A stroke is _drawn_ under such words."--_Cobbett's Gr._, 1st Ed. "It is _struck_ even, with a strickle."--_W. Walker cor._ "Whilst I was _wandering_, without any care, beyond my bounds."--_Id._ "When one would do something, unless _hindered_ by something present."--_B. Johnson cor._ "It is used potentially, but not so as to be _rendered_ by these signs."--_Id._ "Now who would dote upon things _hurried_ down the stream thus fast?"--_Collier cor._ "Heaven hath timely _tried_ their growth."--_Milton cor._ "O! ye mistook, ye should have _snatched_ his wand."--_Id._ "Of true virgin here _distressed_."--_Id._ "So that they have at last come to be _substituted_ in the stead of it."--_Barclay cor._ "Though ye have _lain_ among the pots."--_Bible cor._ "And, lo! in her mouth was an olive leaf _plucked_ off."--_Scott's Bible, and Alger's_. "Brutus and Cassius _Have ridden_, (or _rode_,) like madmen, through the gates of Rome."--_Shak. cor._ "He shall be _spit upon_."--_Bible cor._ "And are not the countries so _overflowed_ still _situated_ between the tropics?"--_Bentley_. "Not _tricked_ and _frounced_ as she was wont, But _kerchiefed_ in a comely cloud."--_Milton cor._ "To satisfy his rigour, _Satisfied_ never."--_Id._ "With him there _crucified_."--_Id._ "Th' earth cumbered, and the wing'd air _darked_ with plumes."--_Id._ "And now their way to Earth they had _descried_."--_Id._ "Not so thick swarmed once the soil _Bedropped_ with blood of Gorgon."--_Id._ "And in a troubled sea of passion _tossed_."--_Id._ "The cause, alas! is quickly _guessed_."--_Swift cor._ "The kettle to the top was _hoised_, or _hoisted_."--_Id._ "In chains thy syllables are _linked_."--_Id._ "Rather than thus be _overtopped_, Would you not wish their laurels _cropped_."--_Id._ "The HYPHEN, or CONJOINER, is a little line _drawn_ to connect words, or parts of words."--_Cobbett cor._ "In the other manners of dependence, this general rule is sometimes _broken_."--_R. Johnson cor._ "Some intransitive verbs may be rendered transitive by means of a preposition _prefixed_ to them."--_Grant cor._ "Whoever now should place the accent on the first syllable of _Valerius_, would set every body _a laughing_."--_J. Walker cor._ "Being mocked, scourged, _spit upon_, and crucified."--_Gurney cor._

"For rhyme in Greece or Rome was never known,
Till _barb'rous hordes those states had overthrown_."--_Roscommon cor._

"In my own Thames may I be _drowned_,
If e'er I stoop beneath _the crowned_." Or thus:--
"In my own Thames may I be _drown'd dead_,
If e'er I stoop beneath a crown'd head."--_Swift cor._