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The God of Seasons, whose pervading power
Controls the sun, or sheds the fleecy shower;
He bids each flower his quickening word obey,
Or to each lingering bloom enjoins delay.

25. WIT.- Pope.

True wit is Nature to advantage dressed,

What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed;
Something whose truth, convinced at sight, we find,
That gives us back the image of our mind.

As shades more sweetly recommend the light,
So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.

For works may have more wit than does them good,
As bodies perish through excess of blood.

37. KEY TO THE EMPHATIC WORDS IN THE FOREGOING EXTRACTS.

1. Sidonian, agreed, King, Sun, one, west, mocked, feet, face, he, houses, God, his, reflection.

2. Light, half, hide, more, account, labour, Patience, need, bear, they, kingly, thousands, ocean, also, stand.

3. Cheerfulness, duty, very, recommends. world, domestic, cross, tearful, repulsive, kindness, hand, hope, beautiful, unfailing. 4. Voltaire, leg. arm, nose, eyes. up, Inquisition, burnt, galley, consoled, thank, otherwise, pistachio. Constantinople.

5. No, happy. content, yet, wretched. must, give, learn, have, much, desire, want, most.

6. Roots. hid, branches, flowers, fruits, is, Spirit, discover, their, whole.

7. Orders, streams, all, obscure, noise, alike, ceases, celebrated, equally, un (known).

8. Almost, errors, hopeless, non-(information), busy, blank, scribbled, erase, still, proceeds, no, false, consequence, farther, ignorance.

9. Speak, know, judge, good, knowledge. charity. suspicion, honesty, not, discretion, know, always, evil, never, suspicion. 10. Trust, before, bear, He, sorrow, God, longed, thee, weariness, no, Him, blood, prayed. Thy, despair, hear.

11. Natural, know, not. less, more, imagine, reflect, sense, sight, comprehensive, intellect, imagination, sense, other, sight, figures, spiritual, corporeal, sounds, letters, hieroglyphics, obscure, retained, imaginable, intelligible, sensible, smaller, easily, greater, distinctly, present, permanent, in(visible).

12. Might, enough, flower, ore, river, dews, herb, all, outward, not, wherefore, delight, beautify, hope, faith, so, more, him. 13. Brave, forgive, can, cowards, kind, fought, conquered, never, nature, greatness, conscious, above, interrupt.

14. Thirty, suspects, fool, knows, forty, plan, fifty, chides, resolve. thought, re-(resolves), dies.

15. Ulysses, long, tempest, arrived, queen, unknown, was,

bread, scorned, forgot, dog, knew, clay, resentment, longing, when, crawled, kissed, falling, died.

16. One, connexion, knowledge, other, wisdom, own, knowledge, materials, encumber, proud, wisdom, humble, more.

17. Star, eagles, spring's, dew, wind. bubbles, even, man, in, night, out, bubble, autumn, dew's, star, flight, forgot.

18. Johnson, condemns, poet, just, quotations, attempt, Hierocles, house, brick, appropriate, editor, not, Boswell, love, beauties, recommended, thousand, page, folio, flower, garden, grapes,

land.

19. Politeness, many, definition, description, able, benevolence, trifles, others, place, commodious, helped, sacrificing, constitutes, never, easy, manly, give, perpetually, all, great, Queen.

20. Thorwaldsen, spirits, occurred, genius, mean, Christ, first, satisfied, far, never.

21. Temper, indulgence, constitutional, valid, ask, no, control, indignant, fiercest, if, is, ground, never, every, are, most, world, insignificant.

22. Sun, pursue, lov'st, paradise, nectar, sky, ecstasy, worm, earth, man, his, seraph.

23. Time, not, being, dream, chronicle, sailor, receding, he, motionless, land.

24. What, snow, crocus, retards, autumnal, God, controls, shower, He, lingering.

25. Wit, dressed, well, sight, our, shades, light, plainness, good, blood.

VII. THE LANGUAGE OF PASSION.

38. The Expressive Notation illustrated in the preceding pages will be found to contain the elements of expressivenes of nearly all the Passions. It is analytical of the leading functional manifestations of emotion; but as these are often complex, a more general indication of sentiment will sometimes be convenient.

39. An extensive collection of Extracts, embodying the LANGUAGE OF PASSION, is added, to furnish material for exercise. The ruling Sentiment in each passage should be noted in the margin, and the passage read so as to give expression to the sentiment indicated. The exer

cise will be found not only highly improving to Style, but valuable as a mental discipline for the development of critical acumen, and the formation of a habit of close attentiveness in general reading.

40. The principal accented and emphatic words are indicated by italics. No attempt is made to show the

relative force of the emphases.

Something must be left to the reader's own judgement. He may with advantage underline such of the italicized words as are suggestive of a meaning not fully expressed.

41. In addition to the ordinary marks of punctuation, the Clause (1), the Break (.......) and the Significant Pause()-are introduced.

VIII. EMPHASIZED EXERCISES IN THE LANGUAGE OF PASSION.

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Or learned or listened to, was from the lips

Of her he loved;—and that he learnt by heart.
Albeit she would try to teach him tunes,
And put his fingers on the keys; but he

Could only see... her eyes, and... hear her voice,
And feel... her touch.

ADMIRATION.

-Shakespeare.
What you do

Still betters what is done. When you speak, sweet.
I'd have you do it ever: when you sing,

I'd have you buy and sell so; so give alms;
Pray so; and, for the ordering your affairs,

To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you
A wave of the sea...
...that you might ever do

Nothing but that: move still, still so,

And own no other function. Each your doing -
So singular in each particular—

Crowns what you are doing, in the present deeds,
That all your acts are queens.

ADMONITION TO CONSISTENCY.- Shakespeare.
Remember March, the Ides of March remember!
Did not great Julius bleed for justice' sake?
What villain touch'd his body, that did stab,
And not for justice? What! shall one of us,
That struck the foremost man of all this world,
But for supporting robbers; shall we now
Contaminate our fingers with base bribes;

And sell the mighty space of our large honours...
For so much... trash as may be grasped thus?-
I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon,
Than... such a Roman.

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A DREAM.

Republic of Letters.

Thus spoke I to a vision of the night :

"O. joy! A dream? Thank heaven that it is fled!
For know you not, I dreamt that you were dead :—
And with the dream my soul was sickened quite.
But since you're here, and since my heart is light,
Come, as of old, and let us wandering seek

Yon high and lovely hill, upon whose height,
Which looks on all we value, we may speak

As we were wont, amid its bracing air,

And pluck the while its crowned jewels there :
For how I know not but 'tis long ago

Since last we met... Ha! Wherefore look you so?

And why this...dimness?" - -Horror! 'twas the Ghost Alone I saw of him I loved and lost!

ADVICE.-Shakespeare.

Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportion'd thought his act.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel:
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new hatch'd and unfledg'd comrade.
Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in,
Bear it, that the opposer may beware of thee.
Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice.

Beware

Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgement:
This above all, to thine own self be true,

And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any one.

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To lose their hoards of pelf, when, hoards as rich
With industry may come in time again!
Yet they go mad... it happens every day.

Have not some slain themselves? Yet, if a maid,—
Who finds she has... nothing| garner'd up,

Where she believed she had a heart in store
For one she gave away - is desperate,

You marvel at her! Marvel!-when the mines-
Of all the earth-are poor as beggary

To make her rich again! Am I ashamed
To tell thee this? No!- Save the love we pay
To Heaven, none purer, holier, than that

A virtuous woman feels for him she'd cleave

Through life to. Sisters part from sisters-brothers
From brothers-children from their parents - but
Such woman from the husband of her choice...
Never.

AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE.

Wordsworth.

She dwelt among the untrodden ways beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise, and very few to love :— A violet, by a mossy stone half hidden from the eye!—

Fair as a star, when only one is shining in the sky.

She lived unknown, and few could know when Lucy ceased to be, But... she is in her grave—and, oh, the difference to me!

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Ay-father! I have had those earthly visions
And noble aspirations, in my youth,
To make my own the mind of other men,
The enlightener of nations; and to rise...
I knew not whither —it might be to fall;
But fall, even as the mountain cataract,
Which, having leapt from its more dazzling height,
Even in the foaming strength of its abyss,

Lies low, but mighty still. But... this is past ;
My thoughts mistook themselves.

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Zounds, I will speak of him; and let my soul
Want mercy. if I do not join with him.—
Yea, on his part, I'll empty all these veins,
And shed my dear blood, drop by drop, i' the dust,
But I will lift the down-trod Mortimer

As high i' the air as this unthankful king;
As this ingrate and canker'd Bolingbroke.

Those prisoners I shall keep.-I will; that's flat.
He said he would not ransom Mortimer;
Forbad my tongue to speak of Mortimer
But I will find him when he lies asleep,
And in his ear I'll holla-Mortimer!
Nay,

I'll have a starling shall be taught to speak
Nothing but - Mortimer....and give it him,
To keep his anger still in motion.

ANGRY SURPRISE.— Shakespeare.

Gone... to be married!-gone to swear a peace!

False blood to false blood joined! Gone... to be friends!—
Shall Lewis have Blanch? and Blanch those provinces?
It is not so :-- thou hast mis-spoke.--mis-heard!

Be well advised, tell o'er thy tale again.......

It cannot be :- thou dost but say 'tis so,

What dost thou mean by shaking of thy head?

Why dost thou look so sadly on my son?

What means that hand upon that breast of thine?

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