Rise! rise! ye wild tempests, and cover his flight! 65. But where is the iron-bound prisoner ? * Where? Say, mounts he the ocean wave, banished, forlorn, 70. The war drum is muffled, and black is the bier; Loch. Down, soothless insulter! I trust not the tale, Though my perishing ranks should be strewed in their gore, 80. Like ocean weeds heaped on the surf-beaten shore, Lochiel, untainted by flight or by chains, While the kindling of life in his bosom remains, With his back to the field, and his feet to the foe! 85. And leaving in battle no blot on his name, Look proudly to heaven from the death bed of fame. CAMPBELL. What What is a clan ? QUESTIONS.- Who was Lochiel? For whom did he fight? is meant by a Seer? What is meant by the "lowlands?” On which side was Cumberland? What do you understand being "hoof-beaten ?" Explain the reference to the steed. reply to the warning of the Seer? plain the figure of the " reapers." What is meant by "plaided?" he was called? How did Lochiel boastingly reply to the Seer? tions of the glory of such a death correct? What became of Lochiel ? by their bosoms How did Lochiel Explain the reference to the "eagle." ExWho were " Clan Ranald" and "Moray?" What became of the King, or Pretender, as Were his no ARTICULATION.- Sound the r distinctly in the following words: beware, scattered, Cumberland, there, despair, merciless, coward, bird, far, stars, fire, peerless, banners, mark, marshaled, swords, their, are, harvest, claymore, cover, lore, where, near. SPELL AND DEFINE.-Chieftain, enterprise: 10. frantic: 25. exultingly: 29. havoc: 34. beacons: 36. battlements: 50. dauntless: 70. muffled: 79. strewed: 80. surf-beaten: 81. untainted: 83. exult. *He refers here to Lochiel. REMARK. LESSON XCV. The tones of the voice, and the manner of reading, should correspond with the nature of the subject. (Deep emotion is to be expressed in the following soliloquy.) * * * 1. I MUST rest here. My joints are shaken asunder. My tongue cleaves to my mouth. How glorious, how majestic, yonder setting sun! 'Tis thus the hero falls, 't is thus he dies, in godlike majesty! When I was a boy, a mere child, it was my favorite thought, to live and die like that sun. 2. 'T was an idle thought, a boy's conceit. There was a time, there was a time, when I could not sleep, if I had forgotten my prayers! Oh that I were a child once more! 3. What a lovely evening! what a pleasing landscape! That scene is noble! this world is beautiful! the earth is grand! But I am hideous in this world of beauty! a monster on this magnificent earth! the prodigal son! My innocence ! Oh my innocence ! All nature expands at the sweet breath of spring: but, oh God, this paradise, this heaven is a hell to me! All is happiness around me, all is the sweet spirit of peace: the world is one family, but its Father there above is not my father. 4. I am an outcast! the prodigal son! the companion of murderers, of viperous fiends! bound down, enchained to guilt and horror! Oh! that I could return once more to peace and innocence! that I hung an infant on the breast! that I were born a beggar, the meanest kind, a peasant of the field! 5. I would toil, till the sweat of blood dropped from my brow, to purchase the luxury of one sound sleep, the rapture of a single tear! There was a time when I could weep with ease. Oh days of bliss! Oh mansion of my fathers! Scenes of my infant years, enjoyed by fond enthusiasm! will you no more return? No more exhale your sweets to cool this burning bosom? 6. Oh! never, never shall they return! No more refresh this bosom with the breath of peace. They are gone! gone forever! SCHILLER QUESTIONS. What had evidently been the conduct and character of the person who speaks in this lesson? Why was he now so wretched? Is a wicked man ever happy long? In what way can a man be truly and perma-nently happy? What inflection prevails in this lesson? Why? Point out the emphatic words in this lesson. PRONUNCIATION AND ARTICULATION. - Sha-ken, pro. shak'n fa-vor-ite, not fa-v'rite: land-scape, not lan'skip: hid-e-ous, not hid-jeous: fam-i-ly, not fam' ly: vi-per-ous, not vi-p'rous: pur-chase, not pur-chis. SPELL AND DEFINE. 1. Cleaves, majestic: 2. conceit : 3. magnificent: 4. peasant: 5. luxury, rapture, enthusiasm: 6. refresh. RULE. LESSON XCVI. When two or more consonants come together, let the pupil oe careful to sound every one distinctly. He clinched his fists. He lifts his awful form. He makes his payments. Thou smoothedst his rugged path president's speech. Words to be Spelled and Defined. 2. Per-son'-i-fi-ed, p. represented with Al'-le-go-ri-zed, p. turned into an alle- The Elizabeth. They were so called because they professed to follow the pure word of God. The-o-crat'-ic-al, a. conducted by the immediate agency of God. [cord. 10. Pen'-ta-teuch, n. (pro. Pen'-ta-tuke) the first five books of the Old Testa 6. Spon-ta'-ne-ous-ly, adv. of its own ac7. Prim'-i-tive, a. first, original. 9. Pu'-ri-tan, n. a name given to those who separated from the Church of England, in the days of Queen CHARACTER OF THE PURITAN FATHERS OF NEW ENGLAND. 1. ONE of the most prominent features which distinguished our forefathers, was their determined resistance to oppression. They seemed born and brought up, for the high and special purpose of showing to the world, that the civil and religious ights of man, the rights of self government, of conscience, and independent thought, are not merely things to be talked of, and woven into theories, but to be adopted with the whole strength and ardor of the mind, and felt in the profoundest recesses of the heart, and carried out into the general life, and made the foundation of practical usefulness, and visible beauty, and true nobility. 2. Liberty with them, was an object of too serious desire and stern resolve, to be personified, allegorized, and enshrined. They made no goddess of it, as the ancients did: they had no time nor inclination for such trifling; they felt that liberty was the simple birthright of every human creature; they called it so; they claimed it as such; they reverenced and held it fast as the unalienable gift of the Creator, which was not to be surrendered to power, nor sold for wages. 3. It was theirs, as men; without it, they did not esteem themselves men; more than any other privilege or possession, it was essential to their happiness, for it was essential to their original nature; and therefore they preferred it above wealth, and ease, and country; and that they might enjoy and exercise it fully, they forsook houses, and lands, and kindred, their homes, their native soil, and their father's graves. 4. They left all these; they left England, which, whatever it might have been called, was not to them a land of freedom; they launched forth on the pathless ocean, the wide, fathomless ocean, soiled not by the earth beneath, and bounded, all round and above, only by heaven; and it seemed to them like that better and sublimer freedom, which their country knew not, but of which they had the conception and image in their hearts; and, after a toilsome and painful voyage, they came to a hard and wintery coast, unfruitful and desolate, but unguarded and boundless; its calm silence interrupted not the ascent of their prayers; it had no eyes to watch, no ears to hearken, no tongues to report of them; here, again, there was an answer to their soul's desire, and they were satisfied, and gave thanks; they saw that they were free, and the desert smiled. 5. I am telling an old tale; but it is one which must be told, when we speak of those men. It is to be added, that they transmitted their principles to their children, and that peopled by such a race, our country was always free. So long as its inhabitants were unmolested by the mother country, in the exercise of their important rights, they submitted to the form of English government; but when those rights were invaded, they spurned even the form away. 6. This act was the revolution, which came of course, and spontaneously, and had nothing in it of the wonderful or unfore seen. The wonder would have been, if it had not occurred. It was, indeed, a happy and glorious event, but by no means unnatural; and I intend no slight to the revered actors in the revolution, when I assert that their fathers before them were as free as they-every whit as free. 7. The principles of the revolution were not the suddenly acquired property of a few bosoms; they were abroad in the land in the ages before; they had always been taught, like the truths of the Bible; they had descended from father to son, down from those primitive days, when the pilgrim, established in his simple dwelling, and seated at his blazing fire, piled high from the forest which shaded his door, repeated to his listening children the story of his wrongs and his resistance, and bade them rejoice, though the wild winds and the wild beasts were howling without, that they had nothing to fear from great men's oppression and the bishop's rage. 8. Here were the beginnings of the revolution. Every settler's hearth was a school of independence; the scholars were apt, and the lessons sunk deeply; and thus it came that our country was always free; it could not be other than free. 9. As deeply seated as was the principle of liberty and resistance to arbitrary power, in the breasts of the Puritans, it was not more so than their piety and sense of religious obligation. They were emphatically a people whose God was the Lord. Their form of government was as strictly theocratical, if direct communication be excepted, as was that of the Jews; insomuch that it would be difficult to say, where there was any civil authority among them entirely distinct from ecclesiastical jurisdiction. 10. Whenever a few of them settled a town, they immediately gathered themselves into a church; and their elders were magistrates, and their code of laws was the Pentateuch. These were forms, it is true, but forms which faithfully indicated principles and feelings for no people could have adopted such forms, who were not thoroughly imbued with the spirit, and bent on the practice, of religion. 11. God was their King; and they regarded him as truly and literally so, as if he had dwelt in a visible palace in the midst of their state. They were his devoted, resolute, humble subjects; they undertook nothing which they did not beg of him to prosper; they accomplished nothing without rendering to him the praise; they suffered nothing without earrying up their sorrows to his throne; they ate nothing which they did not implore him to bless. |