XVII. They use the forms of the second person singular oftener than do others; as,
1. "Yet I had rather, if I were to chuse, _Thy_ service in some graver subject use, Such as may make _thee_ search thy coffers round, Before _thou clothe_ my fancy in fit sound."
--_Milton's Works_, p. 133.
2. "But _thou_, of temples old, or altars new, _Standest_ alone--with nothing like to thee."
--_Byron, Pilg._, iv, 154.
3. "Thou seest not all; but piecemeal thou must break, To separate contemplation, the great whole."
--_Id., ib._, iv, 157.
4. "Thou rightly deemst, fair youth, began the bard; The form then sawst was Virtue ever fair."
--_Pollok, C. of T._, p. 16.
XVIII. They sometimes omit relatives that are nominatives; (see Obs. 22, at p. 555;) as,
"For is there aught in sleep can charm the wise?"
--_Thomson_.
XIX. They omit the antecedent, or introduce it after the relative; as,
1. "_Who_ never fasts, no banquet e'er enjoys, _Who_ never toils or watches, never sleeps."
--_Armstrong_.
2. "_Who_ dares think one thing and an other tell, My soul detests _him_ as the gates of hell."
--_Pope's Homer_.
XX. They remove relatives, or other connectives, into the body of their clauses; as,
1. "Parts the fine locks, her graceful head _that_ deck."
--_Darwin_.
2. "Not half so dreadful rises to the sight Orion's dog, the year _when_ autumn weighs."
--_Pope, Iliad_, B. xxii, l. 37.
XXI. They make intransitive VERBS transitive, changing their class; as,
1. ----"A while he stands, _Gazing_ the inverted landscape, half afraid To _meditate_ the blue profound below."
--_Thomson_.
2. "Still in harmonious intercourse, they _liv'd_ The rural day, and _talk'd_ the flowing heart."
--_Idem_.
3. ----"I saw and heard, for we sometimes Who _dwell_ this wild, constrain'd by want, come forth."
--_Milton, P. R._, B. i, l. 330.
XXII. They make transitive verbs intransitive, giving them no regimen; as,
1. "The soldiers should have _toss'd_ me on their pikes, Before I would have _granted_ to that act."
--_Shakspeare_.
2. "This minstrel-god, well-pleased, amid the quire Stood proud to _hymn_, and tune his youthful lyre."
--_Pope_.
XXIII. They give to the imperative mood the first and the third person; as,
1. "_Turn we_ a moment fancy's rapid flight."
--_Thomson_.
2. "_Be_ man's peculiar _work_ his sole delight."
--_Beattie_.
3. "And what is reason? Be _she_ thus _defin'd_: Reason is upright stature in the soul."
--_Young_.
XXIV. They employ _can, could_, and _would_, as principal verbs transitive; as,
1. "_What_ for ourselves we _can_, is always ours."
--_Anon_.
2. "Who does the best his circumstance allows, Does well, acts nobly; angels _could_ no _more_."
--_Young_.
3. "What _would_ this man? Now upward will he soar, And, little less than angel, would be more."
--_Pope_.
XXV. They place the infinitive before the word on which it depends; as,
1. "When first thy sire _to send_ on earth Virtue, his darling child, _design'd_"
--_Gray_.
2. "As oft as I, _to kiss_ the flood, _decline_; So oft his lips ascend, to close with mine."
--_Sandys_.
3. "Besides, Minerva, _to secure_ her care, _Diffus'd_ around a veil of thicken'd air."
--_Pope_.
XXVI. They place the auxiliary verb after its principal, by hyperbaton; as,
1. "No longer _heed_ the sunbeam bright That plays on Carron's breast he _can_"
--_Langhorne_.
2. "_Follow_ I _must_, I cannot go before."
--_Beauties of Shakspeare_, p. 147.
3. "The man who suffers, loudly may complain; And _rage_ he _may_, but he shall rage in vain."
--_Pope_.
XXVII. Before verbs, they sometimes arbitrarily employ or omit prefixes: _as, bide_, or _abide_; _dim_, or _bedim_; _gird_, or _begird_; _lure_, or _allure_; _move_, or _emove_; _reave_, or _bereave_; _vails_, or _avails_; _vanish_, or _evanish_; _wail_, or _bewail_; _weep_, or _beweep_; _wilder_, or _bewilder_:--