e directed to a person addressed.
(1) _Command._
_Call up_ the shades of Demosthenes and Cicero to vouch for your
words; _point_ to their immortal works.--J.Q. ADAMS.
_Honor_ all men; _love_ all men; _fear_ none.--CHANNING.
(2) _Entreaty._
Oh, from these sterner aspects of thy face
_Spare_ me and mine, nor _let_ us need the wrath
Of the mad unchained elements.
--BRYANT.
(3) _Request._
"_Hush_! mother," whispered Kit. "_Come_ along with me."--DICKENS
_Tell_ me, how was it you thought of coming here?--_Id._
[Sidenote: _Sometimes with_ first person _in the plural_.]
But the imperative may be used with the plural of the first person.
Since the first person plural person is not really I + I, but I + you,
or I + they, etc., we may use the imperative with _we_ in a command,
request, etc., to _you_ implied in it. This is scarcely ever found
outside of poetry.
_Part we_ in friendship from your land,
And, noble earl, receive my hand.
--SCOTT.
Then _seek we_ not their camp--for there
The silence dwells of my despair.
--CAMPBELL.
_Break we_ our watch up.--SHAKESPEARE.
Usually this is expressed by _let_ with the objective: "_Let_ us go."
And the same with the third person: "_Let_ him be accursed."
Exercises on the Moods.
(_a_) Tell the mood of each verb in these sentences, and what special
use it is of that mood:--
1. Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or
shall be unfurled, there will her heart and her prayers be.
2. Mark thou this difference, child of earth!
While each performs his part,
Not all the lip can speak is worth
The silence of the heart.
3. Oh, that I might be admitted to thy presence! that mine were
the supreme delight of knowing thy will!
4. 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life,
One glance at their array!
5. Whatever inconvenience ensue, nothing is to be preferred
before justice.
6. The vigorous sun would catch it up at eve
And use it for an anvil till he had filled
The shelves of heaven with burning thunderbolts.
7. Meet is it changes should control
Our being, lest we rust in ease.
8. Quoth she, "The Devil take the goose,
And God forget the stranger!"
9. Think not that I speak for your sakes.
10. "Now tread w
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