He longs to ravish from the bless'd abodes The seal of heaven, the attribute of gods; To give his labour more than man can give, Breathe Jove's own breath, and bid the marble live!

The very flattering success which attended the first Edition of this brief but affectionate Sketch, I must attribute to the interest of the subject, rather than the merit of the composition; and I cannot but feel grateful to those Writers who have honoured me by their notice and approbation.

Graced with each attribute which Heaven supplies To Godlike Chiefs: humane, intrepid, wise: His Nation's Bulwark, and all Nature's pride, The Hero lived, and as he livedhe died: Transcendant destiny!

We must reap the fruit of what we sow; and if evil and unjust reports have arisen against Leigh Hunt as a man, and unluckily for him it is so, he ought not to attribute the rise of such reports to the political animosities which his virulence has excited, but to the real and obvious causehis voluptuous defence of crimes revolting to Nature.

As for Mr. Keats, we are informed that he is in a very bad state of health, and that his friends attribute a great deal of it to the pain he has suffered from the critical castigation his Endymion drew down on him in this magazine.

Most of the historians attribute it to a woman, the later empress Wu.

" "Why do you attribute this outbreak to me?"

The name of Great your martial mind will suit; But justice is your darling attribute: Of all the Greeks, 'twas but one hero's due, And, in him, Plutarch prophesied of you.

In such cases I have vanity enough, however, to attribute this to better lands.

The former express actions as things; the latter generally attribute them to their agents or recipients.

"When an attribute becomes a title, or is emphatically applied to a name, it follows it; as Charles, the Great; Henry, the First; Lewis, the Gross."Webster's Philos.

"The verb be often separates the name from its attribute; as war is expensive.

But if the object governed by the verb, is always a mere qualifying adjunct, a mere "explanation of the attribute," (Ib., p. 28,) how differs it from an adverb?

An other, using the same terms for a very different division, explains them thus: "A Simple Sentence contains but one subject and one attribute; as, 'The sun shines.'

A Complex Sentence contains two or more subjects of the same attribute, or two or more attributes of the same subject; as, 'The sun and the stars shine.'

"The predicate consists of two parts,the verb, or copula, and that which is asserted by it, called the attribute; as 'Snow is white.

"The grammatical predicate consists of the attribute and copula not modified by other word.

Say, "Either OR neither," &c.G. B. Dr. Priestley censures this construction, on the ground, that the word whole is an "attribute of unity," and therefore improperly added to a plural noun.

Abstract the name from its attribute, and the proposition cannot always be true.

I have often thought this possession to be a particular attribute of the theatrical profession.

In many cases the physical conditions of the soil have undergone no appreciable change during centuries, so that it is impossible to attribute so enormous an augmentation of malaria to an increase in its annual production, itself increased by a progressive alteration of the chemical composition of the soil.

All these facts, which can be easily verified if the subject of malaria be studied on the spot and without any preconceived notions, explain the tendency which has always been manifested to attribute this specific poisoning of the air to a living organism which is multiplied in the soil; and they also explain the ardor with which hygienists have applied themselves to the production of the scientific proof.

" Shall we attribute it to a coincidence that Mrs. L.'s best poem strikes a very familiar chord?

But he looked rather large, and Mercy is notoriously a kingly attribute.

She could not even be called good; goodness is not an attribute of birds.