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"You have the sunrise now, joins truth to truth."
X. The Pope, 1763.

"One makes fools look foolisher fifty-fold
By putting in their place the wise like you,
To take the full force of an argument
Would buffet their stolidity in vain."
XI. Guido, 858.

Here the infinitive "To take" might be understood, at first look,
as the subject of "Would buffet"; but it depends on "putting", etc.,
and the subject relative "that" is suppressed: "an argument {that}
would buffet their stolidity in vain."

"Will you hear truth can do no harm nor good?"
XI. Guido, 1915.

"I who, with outlet for escape to heaven,
Would tarry if such flight allowed my foe
To raise his head, relieved of that firm foot
Had pinned him to the fiery pavement else!"
XI. Guido, 2099.

i.e., "that firm foot {that} had (would have) pinned."

. . ."ponder, ere ye pass,
Each incident of this strange human play
Privily acted on a theatre,
Was deemed secure from every gaze but God's,"--
XII. The Book and the Ring, v. 546.

"As ye become spectators of this scene--
* * * * *
--A soul made weak by its pathetic want
Of just the first apprenticeship to sin,
Would thenceforth make the sinning soul secure
From all foes save itself, that's truliest foe,"--
XII. The Book and the Ring, v. 559.

i.e., "sin, {that} would."

"Was he proud,--a true scion of the stock
Which bore the blazon, shall make bright my page"--
XII. The Book and the Ring, v. 821.

2. The use of the infinitive without the prepositive "to",
is frequently extended beyond present usage, especially in `Sordello'
and `The Ring and the Book'. The following are examples:--

"Who fails, through deeds howe'er diverse, RE-TRACK
My purpose still, my task?"
Sordello, p. 168.

"failed Adelaide SEE then
Who was the natural chief, the man of men?"
Sordello, p. 175.

"but when
'Twas time expostulate, attempt withdraw
Taurello from his child," . . .
Sordello, p. 180.

Here are two infinitives, with the prepositive omitted,
"expostulate" and "attempt", both dependent on the noun "time",
and another, "withdraw", without the prepositive, dependent on
"a