Cassius Are rid like madmen, through the gates of Rome."--_Shak_. "He shall
be spitted on."--_Luke_, xviii, 32. "And are not the countries so overflown
still situate between the tropics?"--_Bentley's Sermons_. "Not trickt and
frounc't as she was wont, But kercheft in a comely cloud."--_Milton, Il
Penseroso_, l. 123. "To satisfy his rigor, Satisfy'd never."--_Id., P. L._,
B. x, l. 804. "With him there crucify'd."--_Id., P. L._, B. xii, l. 417.
"Th' earth cumber'd, and the wing'd air darkt with plumes."--_Id., Comus_,
l. 730. "And now their way to Earth they had descry'd."--_Id., P. L._, B.
x, l. 325. "Not so thick swarm'd once the soil Bedropt with blood of
Gorgon."--_Ib._, B. x, l. 527. "And in a troubled sea of passion
tost."--_Ib._, B. x, l. 718. "The cause, alas, is quickly guest."--_Swift's
Poems_, p. 404. "The kettle to the top was hoist"--_Ib._, p. 274. "In
chains thy syllables are linkt."--_Ib._, p. 318. "Rather than thus be
overtopt, Would you not wish their laurels cropt?"--_Ib._, p. 415. "The
hyphen, or conjoiner, is a little line, drawed to connect words, or parts
of words."--_Cobbett's E. Gram._, 1832, 150. "In the other manners of
dependence, this general rule is sometimes broke."--_Joh. Gram. Com._, p.
334. "Some intransitive verbs may be rendered transitive by means of a
preposition prefixt to them."--_Grant's Lat. Gram._, p. 66. "Whoever now
should place the accent on the first syllable of _Valerius_, would set
every body a-laughing."--_Walker's Dict._ "Being mocked, scourged, spitted
on, and crucified."--_Gurney's Essays_, p. 40.

"For rhyme in Greece or Rome was never known,
Till by barbarian deluges o'erflown."--_Roscommon_.

"In my own Thames may I be drownded,
If e'er I stoop beneath a crown'd-head."--_Swift_.

CHAPTER VIII.--ADVERBS.

An Adverb is a word added to a verb, a participle, an adjective, or an
other adverb; and generally expresses time, place, degree, or manner: as,
They are _now here_, studying _very diligently_.

OBSERVATIONS.

OBS. 1.--Adverbs briefly express what would otherwise require several
words: as _Now_, for _at this time_;--_Here_, for _in this place_;--_Very_,
for _in a high degree_;--_Diligently_, for _in an industrious manner_. Thus
the meaning of almost any adverb, may be explained by some phrase beginning
with a preposition and ending with a noun.

OBS. 2.--There are several
customary combinations of short words, which are used adverbially,