Turning, for them who pass, the common dust Of servile opportunity to gold; Filling the soul with sentiments august The beautiful, the brave, the holy, and the just! Exercise. 'Desultory Stanzas,' p. 269.] "Waller preserved and won his life from those who were most resolved to take it, and in an in which he ought to have been ambitious to lose it." "If a philosopher has lived any time, he must have had ample of exercising his meditations on the vanity of all sublunary conditions." ""Tis hard to imagine one's self in a scene of greater horror than on such an, and yet (shall I own it to you?) though I was not at all willing to be drowned, I could not forbear being entertained at the double distress of a fellow-passenger." "At the Louvre, I had the the Duke Regent." Have you ever heard what was the "A wise man will make more of seeing the King, accompanied by and beginning of this custom? than he finds. Men's behaviour should be like their apparel, not too strait, but free for exercise." of doing good, nor check thy desire of doing it by a vain fear of what may happen." A Picture-A Painting. A picture is a representation of objects. A painting is a representation by means of colour. Colour is essential to a painting, though not to a picture. Every painting is a picture, because it represents something; but every picture is not a painting, because every picture is not painted. Form, drawing, outline, composition, are the essentials of the picture: these, together with the colouring, make up the painting. In a secondary sense, the same distinction is to be observed. The poet paints in glowing colours. The historian draws a lively picture. [Bora. painting. sometime, fashioning them like Pharaoh's soldiers in the reechy K. Phi. King John, iii. 1. Ham. Look here upon this picture, and on this: Hamlet, iii. 4. period, that it is impossible to read his account without taking a deep interest in the events which he relates. The art of mixing colours, as applied by the old masters in their old -s, is now lost to the world. Most children are delighted with with rapture for hours together. and many will pore over them You cannot easily to yourself any thing more unpleasant than my situation. In a foreign country, far from home and friends, and without money, I should have perished for want, had it not been for some benevolent merchants, who pitied my forlorn condition and supplied my necessities till I should receive remittances from England. The prize destined for him who should make the greatest improvement in drawing, was a beautiful water-colour by a first-rate artist, mounted and set in an elegant gold frame. A Pillar-A Column. A pillar is a supporting pile. A column is a round pillar. A pillar is smaller than a column. Columns may or may not support the roofs or arches of buildings. Pillars are always used in the sense of supporters. Pillars may be square, or even triangular; columns are always round. We say "Nelson's column," the "Duke of York's column," but the Doric or Ionic pillar. We say a column of smoke, because it assumes a round form. Roundness is the distinguishing characteristic of the column. Oft is the medal faithful to its trust When temples, columns, towers are laid in dust; That things obscure and small outlive the great. 'Inscriptions."] Exercise. "Withdraw religion, and you shake all the of morality." and altars were brought from the ruins "Some of the old Greek of Apollo's temple at Delos." "The palace built by Picus vast and proud, stood." "The whole weight of any of the atmosphere, as likewise the specific gravity of its bases, are certainly known by many experiments." "A simultaneous crash resounded through the city, as down toppled many a roof and - the lightning, as if caught by the metal, lingered an instant on the imperial statue-then shivered bronze and "Ev'n the best must own "Patience and resignation are Populace is from the Italian popolazzo, and signifies the lowest orders of the people taken collectively. Mob, from the Latin mobilis, moveable, characterizes the fickleness of the populace. Both the words signify an assemblage of the people. When the lower orders meet peaceably, and disperse quietly, they are the populace. When the populace commit excesses, riot, or act tumultuously, they become the mob. The populace are vulgar, illiterate, and unrefined. A mob is noisy, riotous, and tumultuous. Exercise. "The tribunes and people, having subdued all competitors, began the last game of a prevalent to choose themselves a master." As the began to shew symptoms of a riotous disposition, a body of police was ordered to the spot, to prevent any outbreak. Instead, however, of displaying any signs of dissatisfaction, the received them with three hearty cheers, and the very best understanding prevailed during the whole day, between the people and the civil authorities. 66 'By the senseless and insignificant clink of misapplied words, some restless demagogues had inflamed the minds of the sottish unaccountable abhorrence of the best of men." to a strange, When the new member reached the gates of the town, he was received with deafening cheers by the who, unharnessing the horses from his carriage, dragged him to his hotel in the market-place. Several women and children, getting into the thickest of the crowd, were much bruised by the before they could extricate themselves. Posture-Attitude. An attitude is an expression of internal feeling by that disposition of the limbs which is naturally suited to such an expression. A posture designates no more than the visible position of the body. We therefore speak of a horizontal posture, an erect posture, or a sleeping posture and of an attitude of despair, an attitude of melancholy. If a painter wished to represent a figure in an attitude of devotion, he would draw him in a kneeling posture, with joined, outstretched hands, and eyes uplifted to heaven. An attitude always implies expression; a posture, in itself, has none. The attitude is the pos ture, with expression. [Bru. As if that whatsoever god, who leads him, Or in this abject posture have ye sworn Coriolanus, ii. 1. P. L., i. 322. That posture, and the look of filial love Exercise. The bishop was kneeling at the altar in WORDSWORTH, p. 384.] of the deepest devotion, and was so absorbed in meditation, that he did not hear the assassins' steps in the cathedral till they were quite close to him. In this of affairs, he determined no longer to hold out against the demands of the council. He was shut up for three days in a dark closet, which was so small, that he was forced to remain the whole time in a most inconvenient The other nations, which had hitherto stood well-affected towards him, now began to assume a threatening and he soon found himself hemmed in on every side by formidable enemies. It is certain that no poet has given more graceful and attractive images of beauty than Milton in his various portraits of Eve, each in a new situation and Praise-Applause. Praise is the general, and applause the specific term for the expression of our approbation. There is less reflection in applause than in praise. We applaud from impulse. There is reason in our praise. A man is praised for his general conduct, his steadiness, sobriety, &c. He is applauded for some particular action. Applause is spontaneous, and called forth by circumstances. We applaud one who saves a fellow-creature from drowning. We praise a boy for his attention to study, and obedience to his superiors. [Ant. I come to bury Cæsar, not to praise him. Julius Cæsar, iii. 2. Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth as the sound of waters deep, Hoarse murmur echoed to his words applause On him and on his high endeavour Id., v. 873. and This statement was received by the people with shouts of preparations were immediately made for the proper reception of this distinguished visiter. The of so eminent a scholar was for him a higher gratification than all the success he had met with. The resolution met with general He was much not only for his diligence and regularity, but also for his general good conduct. |