"Flowers are not flowers unto the poet's eyes; Their beauty thrills him by an inward sense. Or-at the most-but earthly shadows, whence J. R. Lowell's "Sonnets," xxv. II. 1. Substantives as verbs: 46 Your friar is now your prince. As I was then Not changing heart with habit, I am still Attorneyed at your service." "Measure for Measure," v., 1. Iachimo. There is a Frenchman his companion, one, A Gallican girl at home; he furnaces The thick sighs from him."-"Cymbeline," i., 6. Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge! Montano. "If it hath ruffianed so upon the sea." And thou shalt summer high in bliss upon the hills of God." "That sin by him advantage should achieve, And lace itself with his society." Shakspere's "Sonnets," lxvii. "We figure to ourselves The thing we like, and then we build it up, "Once again he earths; "Lamps starred each dusky corridor." And roughly spake My father, Tut! you know them not, the girls; That idiot legend credible." Tennyson's "The Princess," p. 114. "Forgiveness may be spoken with the tongue, But think not that the parchment and mouth pardon Taylor's "Philip Van Artevelde," ii., 6. And looks commercing with the skies."-Milton's "Il Penseroso." "O wherefore was my birth from heaven foretold Twice by an angel, who at last, in sight Of both my parents, all in flames ascended His godlike presence?"-Milton's "Samson Agonistes." Tennyson's "In Memoriam," xviii. "No more; but woman-vested as I was Plunged; and the flood drew, yet I caught her; then The weight of all the hopes of half the world, Tennyson's "The Princess," p. 83. "I looked out on the sunny side of life, And saw thee summering like a blooming vine III. 3. Transitive verbs used intransitively : : "They are the patient sorrows that touch nearest."-Talfourd's "Ion." It is the bloody bus ness that informs IV. Intransitive verbs used transitively : 1866. : "Who is it that says most? which can say more "O first-created beam, and thou great word- Shakspere's "A Lover's Complaint," stanza 4 "The spirit of the water rides the storm, And through the mist reveals the terrors of his form." "Nor wilt thou leave for other bards to sing "I felt me worthy of his love, nor doubted V. Adjectives as verbs, e.g., "That use is not forbidden usury, Which happies those that pay the willing loan." Shakspere's" Sonnets," vi. "Till time mature thee to a kingdom's weight." "Be opposite, all planets of good luck, To my proceeding! if with dear heart's love, I tender not thy beauteous, princely daughter." "Richard III.,” iv., 4. The reader who has followed our course thus far may feel inclined to consider our extracts proof more than sufficient to secure conviction, and may perhaps, under the influence of the tedium of perusing this roll of instances, exclaim in dudgeon, "He hath strange places crammed With observations, the which he vents 66 We are sorry that it should be so, but all illustrations by quotation must be placed before the reader in mangled forms;' for extract at length would either outrun discretion or fail in effecting the aim of the writer. We shall now pause, reserving for further treatment the matter in our mind concerning Etymological and Rhetorical licence till a more opportune season. Yet let us say that he would ill-judge the intent of our writing who should turn from it with scorn because it deals with "poetic diction." It will be shown hereafter that these usages of speech deserve to be known, not for their poetic interest alone, but for their utility in elucidating many of the anomalies observable in the prose style of our greater authors. Meanwhile we may aver that to get a glimpse of the inner working of the poetic mind from research expended on the outward manifestations it presents, can scarcely fail in being profitable to those who desire to be fully ready for using the distinguishing quality of man-"the discourse of reason." S. N. Philosophy. DOES SCIENCE INDUCE SCEPTICISM? AFFIRMATIVE ARTICLE. I. WE think this one of the most important, if not the most im portant, of the questions ever proposed for debate in the pages of our serial. On a due conception of its bearings depend the right estimation of the objects and ultimate limits of physical science, the intrinsic worth of metaphysical science, and the reality or otherwise of man's eternal interests. This being an opening article, we feel ourselves called upon for a little more preliminary matter than would otherwise be required, for the purpose of stating some of the principles underlying the debate-principles which our opponents will find it necessary to controvert successfully before they can lay claim to possessing the truth on the present topic of dispute. If they are at variance with us on these preliminary matters, we ask for corresponding statements on their part, in order to prevent the unpleasantness of discovering at the end that we have been viewing the subject from divergent starting-points. Whilst giving our own definitions of the terms of the debate, we cannot help referring, or rather we should hope we might say, recalling the attention of the readers of the British Controversialist to Mr. Neil's January article on "Literature, Science, and Art," and also to his "Art of Reasoning," for the right conception of science, a clear insight into the principles of proof, and the relation of speculative inquiry to the intellectual development of the human race. Absolute proof, when once attained, must be immutable, incontrovertible, indivisible. According to some thinkers a philosophic criterion of truth is not possible: by the principles of the illuminist and rationalist it is implied that clearness is the measure of truth; but we think that truth is not established by any one criterion, but by several conjoint criteria, such as intuition, testimony, induction, &c. With religious truth, however, we think the case is somewhat different. A careful consideration of its nature has at length led us to conclude, that to satisfy a recipient of the truth of the profoundest subjects upon which mankind have ever been called to think, another specifically different principle is required, and that principle, for lack of a better term, we call inward conviction ; but whether it is an emotion, or a state of consciousness, or akin to conscience, we are not prepared to dispute. And we so affirm because we find that the most acute reasoning of the sages of old |