. The comic English grammar : a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue . Frying sausages^br Ae. As also in the conversation of rustics : as, Its all oneto tve. Come out of tliey laters . * He went to theParsons loitli /. From he to they ant more nor dreemile. We had occasion, in the Etymology, to remark on acertain misuse of the preposition of. This, perhaps, isbest explained by stating that of, in the instances cited, ismade to usurp the government of cases which are alreadyunder a rightful jurisdiction: as, What are you gota-eating of? • He had been a-beating of his icife. RULE
. The comic English grammar : a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue . Frying sausages^br Ae. As also in the conversation of rustics : as, Its all oneto tve. Come out of tliey laters . * He went to theParsons loitli /. From he to they ant more nor dreemile. We had occasion, in the Etymology, to remark on acertain misuse of the preposition of. This, perhaps, isbest explained by stating that of, in the instances cited, ismade to usurp the government of cases which are alreadyunder a rightful jurisdiction: as, What are you gota-eating of? • He had been a-beating of his icife. RULE connect similar moods and tenses of verbs,and cases of nouns and pronouns: as, A coat of armssuspended on a wall is like an executed traitor; it ishanged., draicn, and quartered. If you continue thus todrink brandy and water and to smoke cigars, you will belike Boreas the North wind, who takes cold withoutwherever he goes, and always bloivs a cloud when itcomes in his way. Do you think there is anythingbetween him and her? Yeones. 104 THE COMIC ENGLISH Note.—To ask whether there is anything between twopersons of opposite sexes, is one way of inquiring whetherthey are in love with each other. It is not, however, inour opinion, a very happy phrase, inasmuch as whateverintervenes between a couple of fond hearts must tendto prevent them from coming together. Pyramus andThisbc, as Ovid informs us, had more between them thanthey liked—a conjunction disjunctive in the shape of awall. And, by the bye, now that we are speaking ofPyramus and Thisbe, we may as well expend a word ortwo on a matter which, though of much interest, hasnever yet been noticed by the learned. Pyramus andThisbe, it is well known, used to kiss each other througha hole in the wall which separated them. Now we have SYNTAX. 105 always been puzzled to imagine how they managed are told by the Poet that they lived— Ubi dicitur altamCoctilibus muris cinxisse Semiramis urbem :
Size: 1216px × 2055px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., book, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1850, booksubjectenglishlanguage
