They said thou hadst fallen into the gripe of the devils of Barbary, and that thou wast planting flowers for an infidel with thy hands, and watering them with thy tears!"

"Thou wast chicken-hearted, Stefano!" "I!I was more like thy lion here, with some small additions of chains and muzzles.

Thou wast speaking to a stranger when I summoned thee to the gondola?" "I was asking the news of our Calabrian hills from one who has come into port with his felucca, though the man took the name of San Gennaro to witness that his former luckless voyage should be the last.

" "Thou wast speaking of thy mild and excellent sister?

Thus to me wast thou bequeathed, To console a heart bereaved.

whose all-protecting hand Led us, Thy people, to this chosen land, Through the cleft waters of a distant sea, That we might rear a temple here to Thee; Thou, who on Zion hadst Thy favorite shrine, And in Thy majesty and power divine Wast daily by our suppliant race adored As sovereign Jehovah, peerless Lord; Why hast

Loved-one of my youth thou wast, Of my merry youth, And I see, Tearfully, All the fair and sunny past, All its openness and truth, Ever fresh and green in thee As the moss is in the sea.

Thou, Earth, this night wast also constant found, And, newly-quickened, breathing at my feet, Beginnest now to gird me with delight; A strong resolve dost rouse, with noble heat Aye to press on to being's sovereign height.

PHORKYAS But thence full soon set free, by Castor, Pollux too, In marriage wast thou sought by chosen hero-band.

Jean Wast and François Maréchal of that town, two cathedral-builders, said,"that they had heard of the Church of St. Peter at Rome, and would maintain that their Gothic could be built as high and on as grand a scale as the antique orders of this Michel Angelo."

In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them.

thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?

when I learned that thou wast dead, Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I shed?"Cowper. OBS.

when I learned that thou wast dead, Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I shed?"Cowper. OBS.

Thou wast, (or wert,) 2. You were, 3.

The regular and analogical form for the indicative, is "Thou wast;" and for the subjunctive, "If thou were."

Brightland exhibits, "I was or were, Thou wast or wert, He was or were," without distinction of mood, for the three persons singular; and, for the plural, were only.

Dr. Johnson gives us, for the indicative, "Thou wast, or wert;" with the remark, "Wert is properly of the conjunctive mood, and ought not to be used in the indicative.

Shall we, in deference to these great authorities," asks the Doctor, "allow wert to be the same with wast, and common to the indicative and [the] subjunctive mood?

or rather abide by the practice of our best ancient writers; the propriety of the language, which requires, as far as may be, distinct forms, for different moods; and the analogy of formation in each mood; I was, thou wast; I were, thou wert?

If thou wert, or wast, 3.

Thou wast reading, 2.

Thou wast loving, He was loving," &c.

His "Passed Tense," too, for some reason which I do not discover, he distinguishes above the rest by a double form, thus: "I was smitten, or being smitten; Thou wast smitten, or being smitten;" &c.P. 99.

Thou wast loved, 2.