REMARK.--In many instances one part only of the antithesis is expressed,
the corresponding idea being understood; as,

A friendly eye would never see such faults.

Here the unfriendly eye is understood.

King Henry exclaims, while vainly endeavoring to compose
himself to rest,

"How many thousand of my poorest subjects
Are at this hour asleep!"

Here the emphatic words thousand, subjects, and asleep are contrasted in
idea with their opposites, and if the contrasted ideas were expressed it
might be in this way:

While I alone, their sovereign, am doomed to wakefulness.



EMPHATIC PHRASE.

Sometimes several words in succession are emphasized, forming what is
called an emphatic phrase.

EXAMPLES.

Shall I, the conqueror of Spain and Gaul, and not only of the Alpine