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In Leipzig he listened hour by hour to the lectures of his German professors, sometimes not understanding an important word for several days, yet exerting every intellectual muscle to get some light in his darkness. Then, for, hours each day and almost every evening, it was grammar, grammar, grammar, till he wondered at times if all life meant an understanding of the subjunctive.
No man could have laboured more to make himself master of the niceties of the Gallic idiom, and the right use of its very doubtful subjunctive. At the time to which I allude, the inspired author wore a wig not that his then age required one.
Just receive a quatrain of the pure spring, and judge for yourself: "Chi gode goda, che pur io stento; Chi e in pace si sia, ch' io son in guerra; Chi ha diletto l' habbi, ch' io ho tormento; Chi vive lieto, in me dolor afferra." Balance is there. Vocalisation, adjustment of sound, discriminate use of long syllables and short, of subjunctive and indicative moods.
EFFLUXISSET: subjunctive because the mood of posset, to which it stands in subordinate relation Cum here is purely temporal. See Roby, 1778; A. 342; G. 666; H. 529, II. POSSET: see n. on esset above, 3. SI ... SOLETIS ... SUMUS: the apodosis and protasis do not exactly correspond; the sense really required is 'if that wisdom for which you admire me does exist, it lies in this', etc.
I had read Cicero without learning what it was; the books said, ‘This is neat Ciceronian language,’ ‘this is pure and elegant Latinity,’ but they did not tell me why. Some persons told me to go by my ear; to get Cicero by heart; and then I should know how to turn my thoughts and marshal my words, nay, more, where to put subjunctive moods and where to put indicative.
ALIQUID EXTREMUM: see n. on 5; cf. pro Marcello 27 EFFLUXIT: strongly aoristic in sense 'at once is gone'. TANTUM: 'only so much'. CONSECUTUS SIS: 'you may have obtained'. The subjunctive is here used in the indefinite second person to give a hypothetical character to the statement of the verb.
The subjunctive is used because the speaker reports his own reason for the wonder, formerly felt, as if according to the views of another person, and without affirming his holding the same view at the time of speaking. Madvig, 357, a, Obs. 1. A 341, d, Rem.
It was on one of these occasions that Twing, becoming an accidental auditor of this chaste, sad piping, was not only permitted to remain to hear the end of a love song of strictly guarded passion in the subjunctive mood, but at the close was invited to try his hand a quick, if not a cultivated one at the instrument. He did so. Like her, he added his voice. Like hers, it was a love song.
"We can't tell, I s'pose," replied the child; "but I think they are, anyway. Now what shall I say?" "The subjunctive mood, past perfect tense of the verb 'to know." "If I had known "If we had known If thou hadst known If you had known If he had known If they had known.
But after he had gone on for some time with the ordinary phrases, he turned all at once into a new track, and instead of praying in general terms for 'those that would not walk in the right way, said, 'O Lord! save my father, and there paused. 'If it be thy will, suggested his grandmother. But Robert continued silent. His grandmother repeated the subjunctive clause.
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