3 Verbs to Use for the Word directs

There is a pensive state of recollection, in which the mind is disposed to apostrophise the departed objects of its attachment; and, breaking loose from grammatical precision, changes from the 1st to the 3rd, and from the 3rd to the 1st person, just as the random fancy or feeling directs.

Well, says the Poet, 'Tis nobler like a lion to invade When appetite directs, and seize my prey, Than to wait tamely, like a begging dog,

Note that this is over and above such deterioration as would be due to passing coal direct from the hold of a collier alongside into a ship's bunkers.

3 Verbs to Use for the Word  directs