Note 75 — SENTENCES.
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“You are a much greater loser than me by his death.” Swift to Pope, Letter 63.
“And tho’ by heav’n’s severe decree She suffers hourly more than me.” Swift to Stella.
“We contributed a third more than the Dutch, who were obliged to the same proportion more than us.” Swift, Conduct of the Allies.
“King Charles, and more than him, the Duke, and the Popish Faction, were at liberty to form new schemes.” Lord Bolingbroke, Diss. on Parties, Letter 3.
“A Poem, which is good in itself, cannot lose any thing of its real value, though it should appear not to be the work of so eminent an author, as him, to whom it was first imputed.” Congreve, Pref. to Homer’s Hymn to Venus.
“If the King give us leave, you or I may as lawfully preach, as them that do.” Hobbes, Hist. of Civil Wars, p. 62.
“The sun upon the calmest sea Appears not half so bright as Thee.” Prior.
“Then finish dear Chloe this Pastoral war, And let us like Horace and Lydia agree: For thou art a Girl as much brighter than her, As he was a Poet sublimer than me.” Prior.
In these passages it ought to be, I, We, He, They, Thou, She, reflectively. Perhaps the following example may admit of a doubt, whether it be properly expressed or not:
“The Lover got a woman of greater fortune than her he had miss’d.” Addison, Guardian Nᵒ 9. Let us try it by the Rule given above; and see, whether some correction will not be necessary, when the parts of the Sentence, which are understood, come to be supplied: “The lover got a woman of a greater fortune, than She [was, whom] he had miss’d.”
“Nor hope to be myself less miserable By what I seek, but others to make such As I.” Milton, P. L. ix. 126.
“The Syntax, says Dr. Bentley, requires, make such as me.” On the contrary, the Syntax necessarily requires, “make such as I:” for it is not, “I hope to make others such, as to make me:” the Pronoun is not governed by the Verb make, but is the Nominative Case to the Verb am understood: “to make others such as I am.”