to a plural verb than the rest. See his
_Octavo Gram._, Vol. ii, p. 5. Why not suppose them all to be elliptical?
Their meaning may be as follows: "_To have_ all work and no play, _makes_
Jack a dull boy."--"_What is_ slow and steady, often _outtravels_
haste."--"To _put in_ little and often, _fills_ the purse."--"_What
proceeds_ fair and softly, _goes_ far." The following line from Shakspeare
appears to be still more elliptical:

"Poor and content _is_ rich, and rich enough."--_Othello_.

This may be supposed to mean, "_He who is_ poor and content," &c. In the
following sentence again, we may suppose an ellipsis of the phrase _To
have_, at the beginning; though here, perhaps, to have pluralized the verb,
would have been as well:

"One eye on death and one full fix'd on heaven,
_Becomes_ a mortal and immortal man."--_Young_.

OBS. 3.--The names of two persons are not unfrequently used jointly as the
name of their story; in which sense, they must have a singular verb, if
they have any; as, "Prior's _Henry and Emma contains_ an other beautiful
example."--_Jamieson's Rhetoric_, p. 179. I somewhat hesitate to call this
an exception to the foregoing rule, because here too the phraseology may be
supposed elliptical. The meaning is, "Prior's _little poem, entitled_,
'Henry and Emma,' contains," &c.;--or, "Prior's _story of_ Henry and Emma
contains," &c. And, if the first expression is only an abbreviation of one
of these, the construction of the verb _contains_ may be referred to Rule
14th. See Exception 1st to Rule 12th, and Obs. 2d on Rule 14th.

OBS. 4.--The conjunction _and_, by which alone we can with propriety
connect different words to make them joint nominatives or joint
antecedents, is sometimes suppressed and _understood_; but then its
effect is the same, as if it were inserted; though a singular verb might
sometimes be quite as proper in the same sentences, because it would merely
imply a disjunctive conjunction or none at all: as, "The high breach of
trust, the notorious corruption, _are stated_ in the strongest
terms."--_Junius_, Let. xx. "Envy, self-will, jealousy, pride, often
_reign_ there."--_Abbott's Corner Stone_, p. 111. (See Obs. 4th on Rule
12th.)

"Art, empire, earth itself, to change _are_ doomed."--_Beattie_.

"Her heart, her mind, her love, _is_ his alone."--_Cowley_.

In all the foregoing examples, a singular verb might have been used without
impropriety; or the last, which i