MOODS of VERBS. 2-21 



perhaps muji be interchanged, to preferve the original meaning, 

 without violating the idiom of the language into which the 

 tranflation is made. But the ufe of a peculiar infledion or 

 mood to diftinguifh the fecondary or fubjoined verb from the 

 fundamental or primary verb in a fentence, often has its ufe ; 

 and I think, without much refinement, we muft perceive an 

 elegance, and perhaps too a greater degree of preeifion, in thofe 

 languages in which this nicety is attended to, as in Latin and in 

 French ; for in our own it is almoft loft fight of. But it muft 

 be obferved, that it is not every verb fubjoined to another by 

 the relative pronoun qui, that is put in the fubjundlive mood. 

 In naany cafes, either the indicative or the fubjund^ive may be 

 employed, almoft indifcriminately, both in Latin and in French. 

 But fometimes the one, fometimes the other, ought to be ufed. 

 Where the aflSrmation is certain and pofitive, the indicative 

 fhould be fubjoined to the indicative. 



Heu quoties fideni. 



Mutatofque deos flebit : et afpera 

 Nigris cequora ventis 



Emirabitur infokns, 

 Qui nunc te fruitur credulus aurear 

 Qvi femper vacuum, femper amabilem. 

 Sperat, nefcius aurce 

 Fallacis : mi/eri, QVlBUS- 

 Jnteniaia NITES^ 



Cependant je ^ejjds grace au zele officieux, 



Qui fur tous mes perils vous fait ouvrir les yeux. 



Jeune et vaillant heros, DONT la haute fageffe 

 N'est point le fruit tardif d^une lente vieilleffe. 



Though in thefe fines of Boileau, there be no verb but eji, 

 IT is plainly fubjoined to the preceding member of the fen- 

 tence 



