is here
more properly a preposition, governing _now_.
OBS. 6.--It is plain, that when words of an adverbial form are used either
adjectively or substantively, they cannot be parsed by the foregoing rule,
or explained as having the ordinary relation of _adverbs_; and if the
unusual relation or character which they thus assume, be not thought
sufficient to fix them in the rank of adjectives or nouns, the parser may
describe them as adverbs used adjectively, or substantively, and apply the
rule which their assumed construction requires. But let it be remembered,
that adverbs, as such, neither relate to nouns, nor assume the nature of
cases: but express the time, place, degree, or manner, of actions or
qualities. In some instances in which their construction may seem not to be
reconcilable with the common rule, there may be supposed an ellipsis of a
verb or a participle:[428] as, "From Monday to Saturday
_inclusively_."--_Webster's Dict._ Here, the Doctor ought to have used a
comma after _Saturday_; for the adverb relates, not to that noun, but to
the word _reckoned_, understood. "It was well said by Roscommon, '_too
faithfully is pedantically_.'"--_Com. Sch. Journal_, i, 167. This saying I
suppose to mean, "_To do a thing_ too faithfully, is, _to do it_
pedantically." "And, [_I say] truly_, if they had been mindful of that
country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have
returned."--_Heb._, xi, 15.
OBS 7.--To abbreviate expressions, and give them vivacity, verbs of
self-motion (such as _go, come, rise, get_, &c.) are sometimes suppressed,
being suggested to the mind by an emphatic adverb, which seems to be put
_for the verb_, but does in fact relate to it understood; as,
"I'll _hence_ to London, on a serious matter."--_Shak_. Supply "_go_."
"I'll _in_. I'll _in_. Follow your friend's counsel. I'll _in_"--_Id._
Supply "_get_."
"_Away_, old man; give me thy hand; _away_."--_Id._ Supply "_come_."
"Love hath wings, and will _away_"--_Waller_. Supply "_fly_."
"_Up, up_, Glentarkin! rouse thee, ho!"--_Scott_. Supply "_spring_."
"Henry the Fifth is crowned; _up_, vanity!" Supply "_stand_."
"_Down_, royal state! all you sage counsellors, _hence_!"--_Shak._ Supply
"_fall_," and "_get you_."
"But _up_, and enter now into full bliss."--_Milton_. Supply "_rise_."
OBS. 8.--We have, on some occasions, a singular way of expressing a
transitive action imperatively, or emphatically, by addin
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