3. O! thon that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers, - whence are thy beams, O Sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, pale and cold, sinks in the western wave. But thou thyself movest alone; who can be a companion of thy course? Parenthesis. See ¶¶ 171, 172. 1. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works), He must delight in virtue, 2. His spear (to equal which the tallest pine EI 3 The awkward, untried speaker rises now, And to the audience makes a jerking bow. He staggers almost falls stares - strokes his chin Clears out his throat, and.. ventures to begin. "Hear! hear!" (they cheer him.) Now bolder grown for praise mistaking pother— He pumps first one arm up, and then the other. "I am, sir, sensible - I am indeed That,.. though—I should- want- - words I THINK that orator no great And, therefore, Mr. Speaker, Will.. speak out freely. - Sir -I must proceed: should shrink ·I, for one— I've not yet done. Sir, in the name of those enlightened men To my constituency - I'll.. SAY NO MORE." 4. Pride, in some particular disguise or other (often à secret to the proud man himself), is the most ordinary spring of action among men. 5. Death (says Seneca) falls heavily upon him, who is too much known to others, and too little to himself. 6. The immortality of the soul (faith in which has sustained the greatest intellects of all ages) is the basis of morality, and the source of all the pleasing hopes and secret joys that can arisc in the heart of a reasonable creature. 1. Can such things be, And overcome us, like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder ́? 2. Would it not employ a beau prettily enough, if, instead of continually playing with his snuff-box, he spent some part of his time in making one? 3. Who can look down upon the grave, even of an enemy, and not feel a compunctious throb that he should ever have warred with the poor handful of earth that lies mouldering before him? 4. Why should we see with dead men's eyes - 5. Homer was the greater genius'; Virgil the better artist`: in the one, we most admire the man'; in the other, the work`. Homer hurries us with a commanding impetuosity'; Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty. Homer scatters with a generous profusion; Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile, pours out his riches with a sudden overflow; Vir. gil, like a river in its banks, with a constant stream`. - eousness 6. They, through faith, subdued kingdoms-wrought right. obtained promises-stopped the mouths of lionsquenched the violence of fire ́— escaped the edge of the sword -out of weakness, were made strong-waxed valiant in fight ́ ́, and turned to flight the armies of the aliens`. 7. Can Honor's voice provoke the silent dust ́? Or Flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death? 8. Queen. Hamlet, you have your father much ffended. Hamlet. Mother, you have my father much offended. 9. Nay, an thou 'lt mouth, I'll rant as well as thoû. 11. "Tis green, 't is green, sir, I assure ye!" "Green!” cries the other, in a fury; 66 Why, sir, d' ye think I've lost my eyes?" Emphasis, Pause, &c. See pages 64, 65. 1. He that trusts you, Where he should find you lions, finds you.. HARES ; Than is the coal of fire upon the ice, no! Hang ye! Trust ye? Or hailstone in the sun. * *He that depends 2. The gloomiest day hath gleams of light; The darkest wave hath white foam near it; The gloomiest soul is not all gloom; And sweetly o'er the darkest doom There shines some lingering beam of gladness. 3. One murder makes a villain; Millions, a hero. War its thousands slays; Peace, its ten thousands. 4. Those governments which curb not evils, cause! 5. He raised a mortal to the skies, She drew an angel down. 6. To err is human; to forgive . . divine. Is done already: heaven and earth will witness, 8. Exercise and temperance strengthen even an indifferent constitution. 9. You were paid to fight against Alexander, and not to rail at him. 10. Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs, and ends in iron chains. The more business a man has, the more he is able to accomplish; for he learns to economize his time. 11. Though rules and instructions cannot do all that is requisite, they may, however, do much that is of real use.. They cannot, it is true, inspire genius; but they can direct and assist it. They cannot remedy barrenness; but they can correct redundancy. 12. The wise man is happy when he gains his own approbation, and the fool when he recommends himself to the applause of those about him. 13. We make provision for this life as though it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning. - 14. The weakest reasoners are always the most positive in debate; and the cause is obvious; for those are unavoidably driven to maintain their pretensions by violence, who want arguments and reasons to prove that they are in the right. 15. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his.. humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be, by.. Christian.. example? - Why, revenge! Force. 1. And dar'st thou, then, 2. To beard the lion in his den, The Douglas in his hall? And hop'st thou hence unscathed to go? Up drawbridge, groom! What! warder, ho! Awake! Awake! Ring the alarum bell: murder and treason! 3. Awake! arise! or be forever fallen! TO TEACHERS. THE marks of reference in the reading exercises of Part Second are explained on the next page. A faithful attention to these references will be found of essential service in illustrating the text, and guarding against bad habits of articulation and pronunciation. It is recommended that frequent recurrence for practice be had to the exercises on the elementary sounds, beginning page 34. The collection of representative words has been made with much care; and familiarity with their proper pronunciation will be a great step towards one of the fundamental accomplishments of a good reader. Particular heed should be given in these exercises to the intent of the Italicized portions of words. The exercises on the consonant combinations (page 48) may also be practised with advantage. The pupil should be made thoroughly to understand the nature of accent, the force of the mark of accent, the difference between accent and quantity, &c., as explained on pages 15, 29, 30, and in the exercises on pages 51, 52. These explanations are important to the proper understanding of the occasional marks of accent and quantity which appear in the reading exercises. The list of Faults in Articulation (page 53) should be carefully conned; and the pupil should be taught to refer to it whenever he is checked in the errors which are there catalogued for his avoidance. It is recommended that he be allowed time to peruse the reading exercises of the day, and attend to the references contained in them, before being called on to recite. Several pieces adapted to simultaneous reading on the part of a class will be found scattered through the volume. This species of exercise, if well managed, may be occasionally practised with advantage - the teacher regulating the pauses with a motion of his hand. To insure the attention of an entire class, it may often be well to skip from one pupil to another, without regard to his order; sometimes interrupting a reader before his voice has dropped, and calling upon another to continue a sentence with the appropriate suspended inflection. A list of prefixes and postfixes has been placed at the end of the volume; and these may be referred to, at the teacher's discretion, to illustrate the derivation and meaning of a large number of words in frequent familiar use. |