I should hate _myself_ if then I made my other friends my asylum.

We fill _ourselves_ with ancient learning.

What do we know of nature or of _ourselves_?

(2) _To emphasize a noun or pronoun_; for example,--

The great globe _itself_ ... shall dissolve.--SHAKESPEARE.

Threats to all;
To _you yourself_, to us, to every one.--_Id._

Who would not sing for Lycidas! he knew
_Himself_ to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.--MILTON.

NOTE.--In such sentences the pronoun is sometimes omitted, and the
reflexive modifies the pronoun understood; for example,--

Only _itself_ can inspire whom it will.--EMERSON.

My hands are full of blossoms plucked before, Held dead within
them till _myself_ shall die.--E.B. BROWNING.

As if it were _thyself_ that's here, I shrink with
pain.--WORDSWORTH.

(3) _As the precise equivalent of a personal pronoun_; as,--

Lord Altamont designed to take his son and _myself_.--DE QUINCEY.