. The comic English grammar; a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue . sausagesybr he As also in the conversation of rustics: as, Itsall one to tee. Come out of they taters! Hewent to the Parsons tcith /. From he to theyant more nor dree mile. We had occasion, in the EtjTnology, to remarkon a certain misuse of the preposition, ojl This,perhaps, is best explained by stating that of in theinstances cited, is made to usurp the governmentof cases which are already under a rightful juris-diction: as, JJhat are you got a eating of? He had been a beating of his wfe. RULE XVIII. Conjunc
. The comic English grammar; a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue . sausagesybr he As also in the conversation of rustics: as, Itsall one to tee. Come out of they taters! Hewent to the Parsons tcith /. From he to theyant more nor dree mile. We had occasion, in the EtjTnology, to remarkon a certain misuse of the preposition, ojl This,perhaps, is best explained by stating that of in theinstances cited, is made to usurp the governmentof cases which are already under a rightful juris-diction: as, JJhat are you got a eating of? He had been a beating of his wfe. RULE XVIII. Conjunctions connect similar moods and tensesof verbs, and cases of nouns and pronouns: as, A coat of arms suspended on a wall is like anexecuted traitor; it is hanged, drarrn, and quarter-ed. If you continue thus to drink brandy andwater and to smoke cigars, you will be like Boreasthe North wind, who takes * cold withoutwherever he goes, and always hloics a cloudwhen it comes in his way. Do you think thereis any thing between/(i/n awcZ Acr ? Yes; he andshe are engaged ones. SYNTAX. 153. ^^- ^^<^J^-^f^-i Note.—To ask whether there is any thing be-tween two persons of opposite sexes, is one way ofinquiring whether they are in love with each is not, however, in our opinion, a very happyphrase, inasmuch as whatever intervenes betweena couple of fond hearts, must tend to prevent themfrom coming together. Pyramus and Thisbe, as 154 THE COMIC ENGLISH GRAMMAR. Ovid informs us, had more between them than theyliked—a conjunction disjunctive in the shape of awalL And by the bye, now that we are speakingof Pyramus and Thisbe, we may as well expend aword or two on a matter which, though of muchinterest, has never yet been noticed by the and Thisbe, it is well known, used to kisseach other through a hole in the wall which sepa-rated them. Now we have always been puzzled toimagine how they managed it We are told by thePoet that they lived— Ubi dicitur altamCocti
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