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 inflection 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 precifion, 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 fubjunclive mood. 

 In many cafes, either the indicative or the fubjunclive may be 

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

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

 Where the affirmation is certain and pofitive, the indicative 

 fhould be fubjoined to the indicative. 



Heu quoties fidem r 



Mutatofque deos flebit : et a/per a 

 Nigris cequora ventis 



Emirabttur infolens, 

 Qui nunc te fruttur credulus aurea: 

 Qu i femper vacuam, femper amabilem. 

 Sperat, nefcius aurce 

 Fallacis : ?niferi, quibus 

 Intent at a nites.. 



Cependant je rends grace au zele qfficieux, 



Qui fur tous mes perils vous fait ouvrir les yeux. 



Jeune et vaillant beros, do NT la haute fageffe 

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



Though in thefe lines of Boileau, there be no verb but ejl, 

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

 tence 



