Herrick, Clarke, vol. i. p. 165, cclxxxiv.,— "Methought I saw, as I did dream in bed, A mantling vine, about Anacreon's head;" Dele comma after vine, [and, in the preceding example, after guests.] P. 136, ccxxv. The Bubble, "To my revenge, and to her desperate fears, Butler, Hudibras, P. iii. C. ii. 1. 1103, "Denounc'd and pray'd, with fierce devotion, And bended elbows on the cushion;" &c. Milton has it; e.g., Paradise Lost, xii. 233,informing them by types cr And shadows, of that destin'd seed to bruise The Serpent." But in his Latinized diction it is less noticeable. I observe in Green's Spleen, near the end, speaking of wine, Perspective, directive, &c., are frequently used by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, so to speak, in a passive sense. Two Gentlemen of Verona, iv. 4, "What should it be, that he respects in her, If this fond Love were not a blinded god?" Troilus and Cressida, ii. 2, "We turn not back the silks upon the merchant, When we have spoil'd them; nor the remainder viands Because we now are full." Play of Hieronimo (First Part of Jeronymo), Dodsley, edition 1825, vol. ii. p. 58, Andrew addresses Bellimperia,— "Respective dear, O my live's [lives, life's] happiness," &c. On the other hand, Romeo and Juliet, iii. 1,— “Away to heaven, respective lenity, And fire-eyed fury be my conduct now!" Glapthorne, Dedication to Albertus Wallenstein, speaks of "my respective service to you (his patron)." By the way in Daniel's Hymen's Triumph, iv. 3, I would write in one word, I am content to speak With him, he speaks so prettily, so sweet, Beaumont and Fletcher, Little French Lawyer, ii. 3, What's thy name? La-Writ. My name is Cock-a-two: use me respectively, Troilus and Cressida, iii. 3, i. 3, "The providence that's in a watchful state limbs are his (the opinion's) instruments, In no less working, than are swords and bows Directive by the limbs." Othello, i. 3, is somewhat in the same way,— "Whereof by parcels she had something heard, at least if distinctively is the true reading ;62 see Var. notes. Julius Cæsar, ii. 1,— And so I think All's Well, &c., i. 2, - his plausive words He scatter'd not in ears, but grafted them worthy of applause. iv. 1, Parolles says,-"What shall I say I have done? it must be a very plausive invention that carries it :"—i.e., plausible. Heywood, Four Prentices of London, Dodsley, vol. vi. p. 466, Robert of Normandy, congratulating Charles and Godfrey on their escape, says, Let us rejoice, And to your plausive fortunes give our voice." Woman Killed with Kindness, Dodsley, vol. vii. p. 261,-Is this a dream? Or do my waking senses apprehend The pleasing taste of these applausive news?" news worthy of acclamation; compare plausive above. As You Like It, iii. 2, "Run, run, Orlando; carve on every tree The fair, the chaste and unexpressive she." 62 Distinctively seems a mere sophistication by the editor of the second folio for instinctively, the nonsensical reading of the first. The quartos have intentively, which the critics tell us was used in the sense of attentively, But in this particular passage it seems to mean either all at a stretch, or, so as to comprehend the story as a whole.-Ed. Where Malone quotes Milton's Hymn on the Nativity, noticed below. Jonson, Alchemist, ii. 1, Gifford, vol. iv. p. 68, Make the rest ductile, malleable, extensive;" i.e., extensible; see context. Drayton, Barons' Wars, B. ii. St. Iviii., "With such brave raptures, from her words that rise, She made a breach in his impressive breast," &c. Marmyon, Antiquary, Dodsley, vol. x. page 83,—“'Tis so, that all women thirst man's overthrow; that's a principle as demonstrative as truth; 'tis the only end they were made for;" &c. Herrick, Clarke, vol. i. cclxxiv. p. 161, "Then this immensive cup Of aromatic wine, Catullus, I quaff up To that terse muse of thine." And so vol. ii. ccclxxix. p. 165, "Give way, give way; now, now my Charles shines here, A public light, in this immensive sphere." Milton, Lycidas, 1. 176,— "And hears the unexpressive nuptial song, In the blest kingdoms meek of joy and love." Hymn on the Nativity, 1. 115,— “Harping in loud and solemn quire With unexpressive notes to Heaven's new-born Heir." Did this usage originate in the unmanageable length of some of the adjectives in able and ible, as unsuppressible, uncomprehensible? Some of our later poets have occasionally employed this license in imitation of their predecessors. Akenside, Pleasures of Imagination, B. i. l. 434,— sound her (Virtue's) brow To twine the wreath of incorruptive praise." Mason, in one of the choruses of the Elfrida, after Milton, as Akenside above, "Though now you circle yon eternal throne With harpings high of inexpressive praise." Cary's Dante, Paradise, C. ix. 1. 72, "That voice, which joins the inexpressive song, Pastime of heaven," &c. Southey, in a poetical letter to Allan Cunningham, describes Bilderdijk the Dutch poet as "In knowledge and in inexhaustive stores Of native genius rich." Id., Inscriptions, xli. Poems, vol. iii. p. 166,— Contemplate now, What days and nights of thought, what years of toil, The vast design requir'd." Cary, Translation of Pindar, Nemean vi. 1. 5, p. 152,"For them, an indestructive mansion Abideth in the skies." XXIX. On the other hand, adjectives in able and ible, both positive and negative ones, are frequently used by old writers in an active sense. 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