The God of Seasons, whose pervading power 25. WIT.- Pope. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed; As shades more sweetly recommend the light, For works may have more wit than does them good, 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. The only music] he Or learned or listened to, was from the lips Of her he loved;—and that he learnt by heart. Could only see... her eyes, and... hear her voice, ADMIRATION. -Shakespeare. Still betters what is done. When you speak, sweet. I'd have you buy and sell so; so give alms; To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you Nothing but that: move still, still so, And own no other function. Each your doing - Crowns what you are doing, in the present deeds, ADMONITION TO CONSISTENCY.- Shakespeare. And sell the mighty space of our large honours... A DREAM. Republic of Letters. Thus spoke I to a vision of the night : "O. joy! A dream? Thank heaven that it is fled! Yon high and lovely hill, upon whose height, As we were wont, amid its bracing air, And pluck the while its crowned jewels there : 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, Beware Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgement: And it must follow, as the night the day, To lose their hoards of pelf, when, hoards as rich Have not some slain themselves? Yet, if a maid,— Where she believed she had a heart in store You marvel at her! Marvel!-when the mines- To make her rich again! Am I ashamed A virtuous woman feels for him she'd cleave Through life to. Sisters part from sisters-brothers 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! Ay-father! I have had those earthly visions Lies low, but mighty still. But... this is past ; Zounds, I will speak of him; and let my soul As high i' the air as this unthankful king; Those prisoners I shall keep.-I will; that's flat. I'll have a starling shall be taught to speak ANGRY SURPRISE.— Shakespeare. Gone... to be married!-gone to swear a peace! False blood to false blood joined! Gone... to be friends!— 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? |