"All twinkling with the _dewdrop_ sheen,
The _brier-rose_ fell in streamers green."--_Sir W. Scott cor._

LESSON III.--MIXED EXAMPLES.

"The infinitive _mood_ has, commonly, the sign _to_ before it."--_Harrison
cor._ "Thus, it is _advisable_ to write _singeing_, from the verb to
_singe_, by way of distinction from _singing_, the participle of the verb
to _sing_."--_Id._ "Many verbs form both the _preterit_ tense and the
_preterit_ participle irregularly."--_Id._ "Much must be left to every
one's taste and _judgement_."--_Id._ "Verses of different lengths,
intermixed, form a _Pindaric_ poem."--_Priestley cor._ "He'll _surprise_
you."--_Frost cor._ "Unequalled archer! why was this concealed?"--
_Knowles_. "So _gayly_ curl the waves before each dashing prow."--_Byron
cor._ "When is a _diphthong_ called a proper _diphthong_?"--_Inf. S. Gram.
cor._ "How many _Esses_ would _the word_ then end with? Three; for it would
be _goodness's_."--_Id._ "_Qu_. What is a _triphthong_? _Ans_. A
_triphthong_ is a _coalition_ of three vowels _in one syllable_."--_Bacon
cor._ "The verb, noun, or pronoun, is referred to the preceding terms taken
_separately_."--_Murray_. "The cubic foot of matter which occupies the
_centre_ of the globe."--_Cardell cor._ "The wine imbibes _oxygen_, or the
acidifying principle, from the air."--_Id._ "Charcoal, sulphur, and
_nitre_, make _gunpowder_."--_Id._ "It would be readily understood, that
the thing so _labelled_ was a bottle of Madeira wine."--_Id._ "They went
their ways, one to his farm, an other to his _merchandise_."--_Matt._,
xxii, 5. "A _diphthong_ is the union of two vowels, _both in one
syllable_."--_Russell cor._ "The professors of the _Mohammedan_ religion
are called Mussulmans."--_Maltby cor._ "This _shows_ that _let_ is not a
_mere_ sign of the imperative mood, but a real verb."--_Id._ "Those
_preterits_ and participles which are first mentioned in the list, seem to
be the most eligible."--_Murray's Gram._, p. 107; _Fisk's_, 81;
_Ingersoll's_, 103. "Monosyllables, for the most part, are compared by _er_
and _est_, and _dissyllables_, by _more_ and _most_."--_Murray's Gram._, p.
47. "This termination, added to a noun or _an_ adjective, changes it into a
verb: as, _modern_, to _modernize_; a _symbol_, to _symbolize_."--
_Churchill cor._ "An _Abridgement_ of Murray's Grammar, with additions from
Webster, Ash, Tooke, and others."--_Maltby's Gram._, p. 2. "For the sake of
occupying the