A PEDANT.

He treads in a rule, and one hand scans verses, and the other holds his

sceptre. He dares not think a thought that the nominative case governs

not the verb; and he never had meaning in his life, for he travelled

only for words. His ambition is criticism, and his example Tully. He

values phrases, and elects them by the sound, and the eight parts of

speech are his servants. To be brief, he is a Heteroclite, for he wants

the plural number, having only the single quality of words.

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