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he strife They _should engage_ with Julian's men.--SOUTHEY. III. Subjunctive of Result. 224. The subjunctive may represent the result toward which an action tends:-- So many thoughts move to and fro, That vain it _were_ her eyes to close. --COLERIDGE. So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan... Thou _go_ not, like the quarry-slave at night. --BRYANT. IV. In Temporal Clauses. 225. The English subjunctive, like the Latin, is sometimes used in a clause to express the time when an action is to take place. Let it rise, till it _meet_ the sun in his coming.--D. WEBSTER. Rise up, before it _be_ too late!--HAWTHORNE. But it will not be long Ere this _be thrown_ aside. --WORDSWORTH. V. In Indirect Questions. 226. The subjunctive is often found in indirect questions, the answer being regarded as doubtful. Ask the great man if there _be_ none greater.--EMERSON What the best arrangement _were_, none of us could say.--CARLYLE. Whether it _were_ morning or whether it _were_ afternoon, in her confusion she had not distinctly known.--DE QUINCEY. VI. Expressing a Wish. 227. After a verb of wishing, the subjunctive is regularly used in the dependent clause. The transmigiation of souls is no fable. I would it _were_! --EMERSON. Bright star! Would I _were_ steadfast as thou art!--KEATS. I've wished that little isle _had_ wings, And we, within its fairy bowers, _Were wafted_ off to seas unknown. --MOORE. VII. In a Noun Clause. [Sidenote: _Subject._] 228. The noun clause, in its various uses as subject, object, in apposition, etc., often contains a subjunctive. The essence of originality is not that it _be_ new.--CARLYLE [Sidenote: _Apposition or logical subject._] To appreciate the wild and sharp flavors of those October fruits, it is necessary that you _be breathing_ the sharp October or November air.--THOREAU. [Sidenote: _Complement._] The first merit, that which admits neither substitute nor equivalent, is, that everything _be_ in its place.--COLERIDGE. [Sidenote: _Object._] As sure as Heaven shall rescue me, I have no thought what men they _be_.--COLERIDGE. Some might lament that I _were_ cold.--SHELLEY. [Sidenote: _After verbs of commanding._
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