25. By making this change, some of the suspensions are avoided
and others shortened; while there is less liability to produce
premature conceptions. The passage quoted below from 'Paradise Lost'
affords a fine instance of a sentence well arranged; alike in the
priority of the subordinate members, in the avoidance of long and
numerous suspensions, and in the correspondence between the order
of the clauses and the sequence of the phenomena described, which,
by the way, is a further prerequisite to easy comprehension, and
therefore to effect.

"As when a prowling wolf,
Whom hunger drives to seek new haunt for prey,
Watching where shepherds pen their flocks at eye,
In hurdled cotes amid the field secure,
Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold;
Or as a thief, bent to unhoard the cash
Of some rich burgher, whose substantial doors,
Cross-barr'd, and bolted fast, fear no assault,
In at the window climbs, or o'er the tiles;
So clomb this first grand thief into God's fold;
So since into his church lewd hirelings climb."

26. The habitual use of sentences in which all or most of
the descriptive and limiting elements precede those described and
limited, gives rise to what is called the inverted style: a title
which is, however, by no means confined to this structure, but is
often used where the order of the words is simply unusual. A more
appropriate title would be the _direct style,_ as contrasted with
the other, or _indirect style_: the peculiarity of the one being,