The public monuments with which Hadrian adorned every province of his empire, were executed not only by his orders, but under his immediate inspection. Gibbon. The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.-Tro. 2, 3, 110. NOTE. Writers of the present day would probably place a comma after the words hope, monuments, amity, in these sentences, thereby making the grammatical construction more evident, but violating the rule laid down about Adjectival sentences in § 294. 5. Three or more Co-ordinate Nouns, Adjectives, Verbs, and Adverbs, are separated by commas :— Nouns. O mighty Caesar! dost thou lie so low? Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, Shrunk to this little measure?—J. C. 3, 1, 148. What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood of all the Howards.—Pope. Their houses, their purses, their pikes, were at the command of the representatives of the nation.-Macaulay. Adjectives. Dim as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is Reason to the soul.-Dryden. I fear thee, ancient mariner! I fear thy skinny hand! And thou art long, and lank, and brown, Now the rich stream of music winds along, Gentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman. Verbs. To Him no high, no low, no great, no small; Yet, when we walk, they shoot before the sight; Nothing themselves, and yet expressing all.-Dryden. Adverbs. Let the lying lips be put to silence, which cruelly, disdainfully, and despitefully speak against the righteous.—Ps. xxxi. 20. NOTE. Sometimes pairs of Nouns are put together:- And triumph and despair.-Scott. 295. Other stops are the mark of interrogation (?), placed after a question What will he do with it? and the mark of exclamation (!)——— Farewell! Othello's occupation's gone!-Oth. 3, 3, 357 |