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Title: The comic English grammar : a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Leigh, Percival, 1813-1889 Leech, John, 1817-1864
Subjects: English language English wit and humor
Publisher: London : Richard Bentley
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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n is thatPy ramus and Thisbe were a couple of 7iegroes. We shall betold that it is one utterly irreconcilable with the descrip-tion of them given in the Metamorphoses. No matter—• The lunatic, the lover, and the poet,Are of imagination all compact.And considering that the lover— Sees Helens beauty in a brow of Egypt, 106 THE COMIC ENGLISH GRAMMAR. Me do not see why Abyssinian charms should not be trans-formed by a poet into those of Assyria And so, havingproved (to our own satisfaction at least) that the beautifulThisbe was a Hottentot Venus, Ave will resume the con-sideration of conjunctions. EULE XIX. Some conjunctions govern the indicative; some thesubjunctive mood. In general, it is right to use the sub-junctive, when contingency or doubt is implied: as, ///were to say that the moon is made of green cheese. IfI ive7-e a wiseacre. If I ivere a Wiltshire-man. Alady, unless site be toasted, is never drunk. And when she is toasted, those who are drunk aregenerally the gentlemen.
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The Lad Those conjunctions which have a positive and absolutesignification, require the indicative mood: as, • He who fastsmay be compared to a horse: for as the animal eats not a bit,so neither does the man partake of a morsel. The rusticis deluded by false hopes, /or his daily food is gammon. Every philosopher has his weak points, and in the SylvaSylvarum may be found some gammon of Bacon. 107 RULE XX. When a comparison is made between two or morethings, the latter noun or pronoun is not governed by theconjunction thaii or as, but agrees with the verb, or isgoverned by the verb or preposition expressed or under-stood : as, The French are a lighter people than we,that is, than we are ; and yet we are not so dark asthey, that is, as they are. I should think that theyadmire me more than them, that is, than they admirethem. It is a shame, Martha! you were thinkingmore of that young officer than me, that is, * of me. Sufficient attention is not always paid, in discourse, tothis rule. T

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