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Notice the imperfects esset ... haberet ... posset accommodated to the tense of persuasi above, although the other subjunctives in the sentence are not; cf. n. on 42 efficeret. NEQUE ... DISSIMILE: in modern phraseology the whole of this clause would be briefly expressed thus, 'and was homogeneous'. POSSET: quod si ='whereas if', the subject of posset being animus, and dividi being understood.
The Londoner cannot keep the small and loose order of the grammar of good English; the Genoese conjugates his patois verbs, with subjunctives and all things of that handsome kind, lacked by the English of Universities. The middle class the piccolo mondo hat shares Italian dialect with the poor are more strictly local in their manners than either the opulent or the indigent of the same city.
She knew, of course, that people of different countries were liable to be found speaking their own languages; but somehow the spectacle of the chattering multitude, all seeming so perfectly at ease with their preterits and subjunctives and never once having to refer to Ollendorf or a dictionary, filled her with a sense of dismayed surprise.
Bett demanded. "Dwight's letters, mamma. You mustn't touch them!" Lulu's voice was sharp. "Say!" Cornish, at the door, dropped his voice. "If there was anything I could do at any time, you'd let me know, wouldn't you?" That past tense, those subjunctives, unconsciously called upon her to feel no intrusion. "Oh, thank you," she said. "You don't know how good it is to feel "
I like wheels and beams and valves so much better than I like syntax and subjunctives," he urged. "I'd be willing to work for it, papa; it's interesting and it really counts for something, when you get it done." "Perhaps. Is it a new idea, Allyn?" The boy shook his head. "It's nearly as old as I am, I believe. Ever since I remember, I have liked such things.
The subjunctives denote that these are the thoughts not of the speaker, but of the persons who do think old age a wretched thing. See n. on 3 ferat; but cf. Kennedy, Grammar, pref., p. 30. ALTERAM ... TERTIAM: in enumerations of more than two things unus and alter generally take the place of primus, and secundus: in Cic. these latter rarely occur under such circumstances. Cf.
Then came questions regarding the subjunctives; questions to which very few members of the class gave any real attention.
Cicely, meanwhile, was mounting guard over Allyn's languages, advising, admonishing and often helping him along the devious paths of syntax and subjunctives. She had a good deal of time at her disposal. She gave it to him freely, and unconsciously she gained as much as she gave, in her work with the boy. Their comradeship was as perfect as was their unlikeness.
Madvig, Opusc. 2, 105; Roby, 1596; A. 266, a, b; G. 256, 2; H. 484, 4, n. 2. DUM ADSIT, CUM ABSIT: as both dum and cum evidently have here a temporal sense, the subjunctives seem due to the influence of the other subjunctives utare and requiras. NISI FORTE: see n. on 18. For certus cf. below, 72 senectutis certus terminus. AETATIS: here = vitae; see n. on 5.
The Londoner cannot keep the small and loose order of the grammar of good English; the Genoese conjugates his patois verbs, with subjunctives and all things of that handsome kind, lacked by the English of Universities. The middle class the piccolo mondo that shares Italian dialect with the poor are more strictly local in their manners than either the opulent or the indigent of the same city.
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