Exercise II. Underline the adverbs, and refer to the rule which dictates the selection : All above was sky, and ocean all around. The wound festers within. But where his rude hut by the Danube lay, There were his young barbarians all at play.-BYRON. They tug, they strain, down, down they go, Where I am, thither ye cannot come. Come hither, my little page.BYRON. Onward in haste Llewellyn passed. Whither shall I flee from thy presence? Let Norval go hence as he came.-HOME. I thence invoke thy aid.-MILTON. Whence and what art thou? Every text germinated into meanings far from obvious, but which were presumed to be not undesigned.-HALLAM. Mary was not by any means illiterate.-HALLAM. Nor did they not perceive the evil plight In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel.-MILTON. We examine the why and wherefore. XII. PREPOSITIONS. RULE I. 330. Certain words and phrases require appropriate prepositions. 331. But a preposition should not be expressed when it is implied in the verb. To recur back, is wrong, because re signifies back. The prepositions proper to be used in each case must be learned, not by rules, but by familiarity with the usage of good authors. A copious set of examples is therefore subjoined. EXAMPLES. The company ABOUT.-Wasps that buzz about his nose.-SHAKS. crowded about the fire.-ADDISON. He wanders about the world.JOHNSON. Tell us all about the war.-SOUTHEY. Bodies floating about the bay.-SOUTHEY. ABOVE.-Soar above the Aonian Mount. To set himself in glory above his peers. With head uplift above the waves. Riot ascends above their loftiest towers. Raised above his fellows.-MILTON. For a pale cross above its green-sward rose.-HEMANS. ACROSS.-Her bow across her shoulder flung.-COLLINS. Across his brow his hand he drew.-SCOTT. Quitting my knife and fork, and laying them across one another upon my plate, &c.—Spectator, 7. No longer suffer our voices to roll across the Atlantic.-BROUGHAM. AFTER.-Draw after him the whole race.-MILTON. The nurse went lagging after.-DRYDEN. Longing after immortality.-ADDISON. Inquiries after the remains.-JOHNSON. Lean thy AGAINST.-More sinned against than sinning.-SHAKS. back against mine arm.-SHAKS. To arm themselves against the shafts of malice. JOHNSON. Elizabeth remonstrated against the marriage.HUME. Which provided against such an attempt.-HUME. They prepare against the floods.-ARNOTT. I do not combat against death, but thee.-BYRON. Captain Ball had provided against any such danger.SOUTHEY. Proof against wet.-SOUTHEY. The young man reclined against a table.-DICKENS. ALONG.-I wandered along the mazes of the rivulet.-JOHNSON. Strange pangs would flash along Childe Harold's brow.-BYRON. Dark Guadiana rolls his power along.-BYRON. AMONG, AMONGST.-And some fell among thorns.-MATT. xiii. 7. And fell among thieves.-LUKE, x. 30. And from his presence hid themselves among AROUND.-And many a holy text around she strews.-GRAY. Around his waist are forests braced.-BYRON. His floating robe around him folding.-BYRON. Ye clouds that gorgeously repose around the setting sun.-HEMANS. Draw, dotard, around thy old wavering sight, this mantle.-CAMPBELL. He cast his eyes around.-H. G. BELL. AT.-Laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains.-SHAKS. Terrified at the figure.-ADDISON. Startles at destruction.-ADDISON. Astonished at the voice.-DRYDEN. Aims't thou at princes?-POPE. I sometimes shrink at evils recollected, and sometimes start at evils anticipated.JOHNSON. Arrive at a region.-JOHNSON. Wonder at the flight.CRABBE. Sadly scoffed at.-BYRON. Or tremble at the gate.-BYRON. Too busy to bark at him.-BYRON. Shrink at the idea. FOSTER. He who mocked at art's control.-MITFord. Glad at heart.-ROGERS. Fire at the victory.-SOUTHEY. A great question here offers itself, at which we can only glance.-CHANNING. BENEATH.-Earth rolling beneath.-JOHNSON. How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke!-GRAY. The waves bound beneath me as a steed.-BYRON. Bowed beneath burdens.-SOUTHEY. He sat beneath a willow-tree.-SOUTHEY. Beneath his blows he fell and groaned.SOUTHEY. His eyeballs rolled beneath his ample brow.-WORDSWORTH, Veiled beneath the simplest guise.-MOORE. BESIDE.-Beside it stood.-MILTON. He caused me to sit down beside him.-BACON. He sat beside the bed where parting life was laid.GOLDSMITH. He sate him down beside the stream.-SOUTHEY. At his right hand Victory Sat eagle-winged; beside him hung his bow.-MILTON. BETWEEN. The reader must learn by all means to distinguish between proverbs and those polite speeches which beautify conversation.-SWIFT. A merchant who traded between Africa and the ports of the Red Sea.-JOHNSON. Communication between distant places.-JOHN SON. A clear mutual understanding between the religious and the scientific speculator.-WHEWELL. Coincidence between the arbitrary magnitudes.-WHEWELL. A shot passed between Nelson and Hardy. -SOUTHEY. Difference between the costumes of England and Spain. -SOUTHEY. Contrast between the dull light, &c.-Cringle's Log. BEYOND.-Retired beyond the sound of music.-JOHNSON. My hopes and wishes have flown beyond this boundary.-JOHNSON. The sacred feeling which is the bond of the home circle, will by no means bear to be stretched much beyond the limits for which nature has woven it.— ISAAC TAYLOR. BY.-That is the name I go by in the neighbourhood.-ADDISON. Inhabited by fish.-JOHNSON. Sat by his fire, and talked the night away.-GOLDSMITH. Hold fast by my girdle.-BYRON. To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortunes, not your fortunes by your desires.-TAYLOR. DOWN.-When guilt brings down the thunder.-AKENSIDE. They cut down a mountain cabbage-tree.-SOUTHEY. FOR. We sailed for Genoa.-ADDISON. Destined for the residence. -JOHNSON. Eminent for his knowledge.-JOHNSON. Qualify for commerce.-JOHNSON. Long for my native country.-JOHNSON. Intended for instruction.-DRYDEN. I cannot answer for my family.-SWIFT. Blood atoned for blood.-POPE. He prayed but for life.-SCOTT. Shall Britains be bartered for gold ?-HEBER. Why should I for others groan, when none will sigh for me?-BYRON. Prepared for Sabbath duties.-WORDSWORTH. Unfitted for coarse aliments. - HERSCHEL. Ready for anchoring.-SOUTHEY. Impatient for his prey.-SOUTHEY. FROM.-Extort from me.-MILTON. Absent from her sight.-POPE. Distinct from sense.-JOHNSON. These bones from insult to protect.— GRAY. Remote from cities.-GAY. Shrinking from distress.-BYRON. The Childe departed from his father's hall.-BYRON. Won from ten thousand royal Argosies.-HEMANS. Another voice shall come from yonder tower. ROGERS. -WORDSWORTH. Screened from the sun.Excluded from all communication.-BOWRING. IN.-Versed in the theory.-ADDISON. Delight in solitary walks.— JOHNSON. Persisted in his design.-JOHNSON. Confined in a private palace. JOHNSON. Quenched in dark clouds of slumber. GRAY. Entranced in prayer.-COLERIDGE. These vales in woods arrayed.BRYANT. Employed in carrying. -SOUTHEY. Dressed in full fashion.— SOUTHEY. INTO. He was initiated into half-a-dozen clubs before he was oneand-twenty.-ADDISON. Those heathens did in a particular manner instil the principle into their children.-SWIFT. Divided into many squares. JOHNSON. Ages crowded into years.-MACINTOSH. One might put it into the hands of any one to design.-STERNE. And often peeped into his room.-H. G. BELL. How high you lift your heads into the sky.-KNOWLES. OF.-Negligent of his charge.-JOHNSON. Hopeless of success.— JOHNSON. Guiltless of his country's blood.-GRAY. Regardless of the tyrant's frown.-SCOTT. His veteran arms were full of might.-BYRON. Beware of the day.-CAMPBELL. Destitute alike of speed to avoid and of arms to repel, &c.-HERSCHEL. Cages full of birds.-SOUTHEY. Of everything bereft.-SOUTHEY. OFF.-Upon my opening the door, the young women broke off their discourse.-ADDISON. Useless efforts to keep off our end.-GOLDSMITH. Admiral Barrington beat off the Comte d'Estaing.-SOUTHEY. ON.-Prone on the flood.-MILTON. Bent on mischief.-DRYDEN. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight.-GRAY. Perching on the sceptered hand.-GRAY. I sift the snow on the mountains below.-SHELLEY. There leans the idle shepherd on his crook.-BYRON. Rolling on the foe.-BYRON. A light on Marmion's visage spread.SCOTT. I have breathed on the south.-HEMANS. Reposing on my pallet. -CAMPBELL. Then on my mind a shadow fell.-H. G. BELL. OUT, OUT OF.-Searching out the wonders of the creation.-ADDISON. I have brought philosophy out of closets and libraries.-ADDISON. OVER.-Walked over a church-yard by moonlight.-ADDISON. Presiding over thoughts and manners.-JOHNSON. Knowledge will always predominate over ignorance. JOHNSON. Woods that wave o'er Delphi's steep.-GRAY. Scatter plenty o'er a smiling land.-GRAY. To muse o'er flood or fell.-BYRON. Pecking the hand that hovers o'er her mate.-BYRON. Sweep o'er thy spoils.-HEMANS. She spread her mantle o'er her breast.-HEMANS. Ye may trace my steps o'er the wakening earth.-HEMANS. A merciless sword o'er Culloden shall wave.-CAMPBELL. This sway over other souls the surest test of greatness.-CHANNING. A silent terror o'er me stole.-H. G. BELL. ROUND. We gathered round him.-HEMANS. Spread a death-shade round the ships.-CAMPBELL. Disperse his men round the ship.— SOUTHEY. Fastened a string of rattles round each leg.-SOUTHEY. The grog went round the gasping crew.-KENNEDY. It was a world as fresh and fair As e'er revolved round sun in air.-BYRON. THROUGH.-Break through the thick array of his thronged legions.ADDISON. Her hands were torn with passing through the brakes.DRYDEN. A simplicity shines through all he writes.-DRYDEN. Look under our mask, and see through all our fine pretensions.-TILLOTSON. I broke through his slumbers.-BYRON. But darkness dies, pierced through and through with light.-E. ELLIOTT. I To.-Subject to the same diseases.-SHAKS. Listen to the whispers of fancy.-JOHNSON. Appropriated to the ladies.-JOHNSON. You impute them to mistaken motives.-JOHNSON. Apt to blame.-CRABBE. should not recur to the history.-BURKE. Impute to these the fault.— GRAY. A youth to fortune and to fame unknown.-GRAY. His genius mounted to the plains of heaven.-WORDSWORTH. Obedient to the strong creative power.-WORDSWORTH. They are true to the last.-CAMPBELL. According to his account.-SOUTHEY. He had a strong dislike to the practice.-SOUTHEY. She had clung to hope.-H. G. BELL. Adapted to the faculties.-ISAAC TAYLOR. UNDER.-For the bringing under of those rebels.-SPENSER. For he must reign till he hath put all enemies under his feet.-1 Cor. xv. 25. UP.-Up to the fearful wheel she gazed.-HEMANS. Sand hath filled up the palaces of old.-HEMANS. The tale is hushed up now.-H. G. BELL. UPON. Those who defend them, dwell upon their zeal.-SwIFT. Man preyed upon man.-JOHNSON. Why does this man intrude upon me?— JOHNSON. Dropped upon the ground. JOHNSON. Float upon the air.GRAY. Rides upon the storm.-COWPER. The vessel lay upon the coral reef.-KENNEDY. Yon sun that sets upon the sea.-BYRON. Gazing upon this world below.-MOORE. Bestowing especial care upon the intelligent.-ISAAC TAYLOR. WITH. I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you.-SHAKS. Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons.-SHAKS. Supplied with the necessaries of life.-JOHNSON. Entertained with songs.-JOHNSON. Unite levity with strength.-JOHNSON. Gemmed with morning-dew.-COLLINS. Heads replete with thoughts. -COWPER. Acquaintance with the laws of nature.-ARNOTT. Harmonise with our belief. WHEWELL. Few of our youth could cope with him.BYRON. Which poets vainly pave with sands of gold.-BYRON. Wast blending with my thoughts.-COLERIDGE. Man's heart and hope had struggled with his woes.-HEMANS. He strove with Jaspar's strength in vain.-SOUTHEY. Enriched with knowledge.-WORDSWORTH. Moist with water-drops.-WORDSWORTH. My lips are parched with thirst. Many passages are encumbered with verbiage.— -WORDSWORTH. CHANNING. WITHIN.-Be informed how much your husband's revenue amounts to, and be so good a computer as to keep within it.-SWIFT. Keep handsomely within rules.-STEELE. Very difficult for persons of great liveliness to restrain themselves within the sober limits of strict veracity.-H. MORE. WITHOUT.-Come, 'tis no matter, we shall do without him.-ADDISON. There is no living with thee, nor without thee.-Tatler. RULE II. 332. Some words admit different prepositions, the sense generally varying with each; thus-You are disappointed of a thing you expected, if you do not obtain it. You are disappointed in it, if you obtain it, but find it does not realise your expectations. EXAMPLES. Alight at.-There is alighted at your gate a young Venetian.-SHAKS. Ask of. But of the never-dying soul ask things that cannot die. Call at (a house). He ordered him to call at his house.-TEMPLE. Compare with (in quality).-Compare their condition with his own. |