 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...wont to watch On duty, sleeping found by whom they dread, Rouse and bestir themselves ere weft awake. Nor did they not perceive the evil plight In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel ; Yet to their general's voice they soon obey'd, Innumerable. As when the... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1830 - 128 pages
...thing anyhow ;" that is, " in any manner;" or, " sfmehow ;" that is, " in some manner." RULE XVI. . or are equivalent to an affirmative ; as, " Nor did they not perceive him ;" that is, " they did perceive him ;" " His language, though inelegant, is not ungrammatical ;"... | |
 | J. M. Putnam - English language - 1831 - 174 pages
...difficult to have invented such a species of being: They ought to be, to interpose, to lose, to invent. 4. Two negatives, in English destroy one another, or are equivalent to an affirmative: as, JVor did they not perceive him; that is, they did perceive him: His language, though inelegant, is... | |
 | J. M. Putnam - English language - 1831 - 186 pages
...difficult to have inrented such a species of being: They ought to be, lo interpose, to lose, to invent. 4. Two negatives, in English destroy one another, or are equivalent to an affirmative: ns, JVor «Jid they not perceive him; that is, they did perceive h'im: His language, though inelegant,... | |
 | Jacques Delille - 1832 - 476 pages
...wont to watch On duty, sleeping found by whom they dread, Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake. Nor did they not perceive the evil plight In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel ; Yet to their general's voice they soon obey'd Innumerable. As when the... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1833 - 240 pages
...better worth the while of young persons, than the acquisition of knowledge and virtue. • • RULE XVI. Two negatives, in English, destroy one another, or...to an affirmative: as, "Nor did they not perceive him;" that is, " they did perceive him." "His language, though inelegant, is not ungrammatical ;" that... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1834 - 366 pages
...manner." " Somehow, worthy as these people are, they are under the influence of prejudice." RULE XVI. Two negatives, in English, destroy one another, or...to an affirmative : as, " Nor did they not perceive him ;" that is, " they did perceive him." " His language, though inelegant, is not ungrammatical ;"... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1835 - 266 pages
...manner." Charles left the seminary too early, since when he has made very little improvement. ' RULE XVI. Two negatives, in English, destroy one another, or are equivalent to an affirmative ; as, " JVbr did they not perceive him ;" that is, " they did perceive him." " His language, though inelegant,... | |
 | 1836 - 932 pages
...Grsecisms, and sometimes Hebraisms, into the language of his poem; as towards the beginning of it. seph Addison the fierce pains not fwl, Yet to their general's voice they soon obey'd — Who shall tempt \vith wand'ring... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 pages
...wonl lo watch On duty, sleeping found by whom they dread, Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake. Nor did they not perceive the evil plight • In which they were, or the fierce pains uot feel ; Yet to their general's voice they soon obey'd, Innumerable. « As when... | |
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They heard, and were abashed, and up they sprung Upon the wing; as when men, wont to watch On duty, sleeping found by whom they dread, Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake. Nor did they not perceive the evil plight In which they were, or the fierce... 
