Future Time. 1. I fhall, or will, We fhall, 2. Thoufhalt, or wilt [7], have; Ye or will, 3. He fhall, or will, They have. Imperative "What art thou, fpeak, that on defigns unknown, While others fleep, thus range the camp alone?" Pope's Iliad, x. 9o. "Accept thefe grateful tears; for thee they flow: For thee, that ever felt another's woe." Ib. xix. 319. Faultless thou dropt from his unerring skill." " Again: Dr. Arbuthnot, Dodfley's Poems, vol. i. Juft of thy word, in every thought fincere ; Who knew no wish, but what the world might hear." Pope, Epitaph. It ought to be your in the firft line, or knewest in the fecond. In order to avoid this Grammatical Inconvenience, the two distinct forms of Thou and You are often used promifcuously by our modern Poets, in the fame Poem, in the fame Paragraph, and even in the fame Sentence, very inelegantly and improperly: "Now, now, I feize, I clasp thy charms; And now you burst, ah, cruel! from my arms." Pope. [6] Hath properly belongs to the serious and folemn ftyle; has to the familiar. The fame may be obferved of doth and does. "But, confounded with thy art, Inquires her name, that has his heart.” Waller. " Th Prefent; To have: Paft, to have had. Participle. Prefent, Having: Perfect [8], Had: "Th' unwearied Sun from day to day Does his Creator's power difplay." то Addifon. The nature of the style, as well as the harmony of the verse, seems to require in these places hath and doth. [7] The Auxiliary Verb vill is always thus formed in the fecond and third Perfons fingular: but the Verb to will, not being an Auxiliary, is formed regularly in thofe Perfons: I will, Thou willeft, He avilleth, or wills. 66 Thou, that art the author and befower of life, canft doubtless restore it also, if thou villt, and when thou wilt: but whether thou will' [wilt] please to reflore it, or not, that Thou alone knoweft." Atterbury, Serm. I. 7. [8] This participle reprefents the action as complete and finished; and, being fubjoined to the Auxiliary to bave, constitutes the Perfect Time: I call it therefore the Perfect Participle. The fame, fubjoined to the Auxiliary to be, conftitutes the Paffive Verb; and in that state, or when used without the Auxiliary in a Paffive fenfe, is called the Paffive Participle. [9] "I think it be thine indeed; for thou lieft in it." Shakespear, Hamlet. Be, in the fingular Number of this Time and Mode, especially in the third Perfon, is obfolete; and is become fomewhat antiquated in the Plural. Imperative "I knew thou wert not flow to hear." } bei } were Milton. Dryden. Addison. "Thou who of old wert fent to Ifrael's court."Prior. "Thou, Stella, wert no longer young, "All this thou wert." When firft for thee my harp I ftrung." Pope. Swift. Shall we in deference to these great authorities allow wert to be the fame with waft, and common to the indicative, and Subjunctive Mode? or rather abide by the practice of our best ancient writers; the propriety of the language, which requires, as far as may be, diftinct forms for different Modes; and the analogy of formation in each Mode; I was, Thou waft; I were, Thou wert? all which conspire to make wert peculiar to the Subjunctive Mode. |