"_Ay_, and _no_ too, _was_ no good divinity."--_Shakespeare.

"Love_, and _love only_, is the loan for love."--_Young_.

EXCEPTION THIRD.

When two or more nominatives connected by _and_ are preceded by the
adjective _each, every, or no_, they are taken separately, and do not
require a plural verb; as, "When _no part_ of their substance, and _no one_
of their properties, _is_ the same."--_Bp. Butler_. "Every limb and feature
_appears_ with its respective grace."--_Steele_. "Every person, and every
occurrence, _is beheld_ in the most favourable light."--_Murray's Key_, p.
190. "Each worm, and each insect, _is_ a marvel of creative power."

"Whose every look and gesture _was_ a joke
To clapping theatres and shouting crowds."--_Young_.

EXCEPTION FOURTH.

When the verb separates its nominatives, it agrees with that which precedes
it, and is understood to the rest; as, "The _earth is_ the Lord's, and the
_fullness_ thereof."--_Murray's Exercises_, p. 36.

"_Disdain forbids_ me, and my _dread_ of shame."--_Milton_.

"------Forth in the pleasing spring,
Thy _beauty walks_, thy _tenderness_, and _love_."--_Thomson_.

OBSERVATIONS ON RULE XVI.

OBS. 1.--According to Lindley Murray, (who, in all his compilation, from
whatever learned authorities, refers us to _no places_ in any book but his
own.) "Dr. Blair observes, that 'two or more substantives, joined by a
copulative, _must always require_ the verb or pronoun to which they refer,
to be _placed_ in the plural number:' and this," continues the great
Compiler, "is the _general sentiment_ of English grammarians."--_Murray's
Gram._, Vol. i, p. 150. The same thing is stated in many other grammars:
thus, _Ingersoll_ has the very same words, on the 238th page of his book;
and _R. C. Smith_ says, "Dr. Blair _very justly_ observes,"
&c.--_Productive Gram._, p. 126. I therefore doubt not, the learned
rhetorician has somewhere made some such remark: though I can neither
supply the reference which these gentlemen omit, nor vouch for the accuracy
of their quotation. But I trust to make it very clear, that so many
grammarians as hold this sentiment, are no great readers, to say the least
of them. Murray himself acknowledges _one_ exception to this principle, and
unconsciously furnishes examples of one or two more; but, in stead of
placing the former in his Grammar, and under the rule, where the learner
would be likely to notice it, he makes it an obscure