Were heard

Brightened with joy; for murmurings from within
sono'rous cadences! whereby,
To his belief, the monitor expressed
Mysterious union with its native sea.

Even such a shell the universe itself

Is to the ear of faith.

2. A little furrow holds thy scattered seed;
One somewhat deeper will receive thy bōnes;
Yet plough and sow with gladness; from the soil
Springs the rich crop that feeds and gladdens life,
And hope is not quite vanished from the grave.

Think

3. Insects generally must lead a truly jovial life. what it must be to lodge in a lily. Imagine a palace of ivory and pearl, with pillars of silver and capitals of gold, and exhaling such a perfume as never arose from human censer. Fancy, again, the fun of tucking one's self up for the night in the folds of a rose, rocked to sleep by the gentle sighs of the summer air. with nothing to do when you wake but to wash yourself in a dew-drop, and fall to eating your bed-clothes.

4. Nothing is more natural than to imitate, by the sound of the voice, the quality of the sound or noise which any external object makes, and to form its name accordingly. A certain bird is termed the cuckoo, from the sound which it emits. When one sort of wind is said to whistle, and another to roar; when a serpent is said to hiss, a fly to buzz, and falling timbers to crash; when a stream is said to flow, and hail to rattle; the analogyEI between the word and the thing signified is plainly discernible

Examples of High Pitch.

1. 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 honors
For so much trash as may be grasped thus?.
I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon,
Than such a Roman.

2. Thy spirit, Independence, let me share,
Lord of the lior. heart and eagle eye!
Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare,
Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.
8 Awake, my heart, awake!

Green vales and icy cliffs, all join my hymn!

Ye living flowers that skirt the eternal frost!
Ye wild goats, sporting round the eagle's nest!
Ye eagles, playmates of the mountain storm!
Ye lightnings, the dread arrows of the clouds!
Ye signs and wonders of the elements!

Utter forth God, and fill the hills with praise. 4. I tell thee, scorner of these whitening hairs,

When this snow melteth there shall come a flood! Avaunt' EI my name is Richelieu! I defy thee! 5. Advance, then, ye future generations! We bid you wel come to this pleasant land of the Fathers. We bid you welcome to the healthful skies and the verdant fields of New England. We greet your accession to the great inheritance which we have enjoyed. We welcome you to the blessings of good government and religious liberty. We welcome you to the treasures of science, and the delights of learning. We welcome you to the transcendent sweets of domestic life, to the happiness of kindred, and parents, and children. We welcome you to the immeasurable blessings of rational existence, the immortal hop of Christianity, and the light of everlasting truth!

Examples of Transition from High Pitch to Low
1. So stately her bearing, so proud her array,
The main she will traverse for ever and aye.
Many ports will exult at the gleam of her mast!

- Hush! hush! thou vain dreamer! this hour is her last!

2 A thousand hearts beat happily; and when

Music arose with its voluptuous swell,

Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again,

And all went merry as a marriage bell;

But hush! hark! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell !

Examples of Monotone.-See ¶ 170.

1. How reverend is the face of this tall pile,
Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads,
To bear aloft its arched and ponderous roof,
By its own weight made steadfast and immovable,
Looking tranquillity!

2 In these deep solitudes and awful cells,

Where heavenly, pensive Contemplation dwells,
And ever-musing Melancholy reigns,-

What means this tumult in a vestal's veins ? *

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3. O! thou 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 themscives 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?

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,
And that which He delights in must be happy.

2. His spear (to equal which the tallest pine
Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast
Of some great admiral were but a wand)
He walked with to support uneasy steps
Over the burning marl.EI

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8 The awkward, untried speaker rises now, And to the audience makes a jerking bow.

He staggers

stares - strokes his chin

Clears out his throat, and.. ventures to begin. 'Sir, I am. . sensible'

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"I am, sir, sensible"

(some titter near him)

"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 must proceed.
And.. for the first time in my life, I think —
I THINK - that no great orator should - shrink
And, therefore, - Mr. Speaker, I, for one —
Will.. speak out freely. Sir- I've not yet done.
Sir, in the name of those enlightened men
Who sent me here to .. speak for them

To do my duty — as I said before

why, then.

To my constituency- -I'll.. SAY NO MORE."

4. Pride, in some particular disguise or other (often a 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 arise 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 -
Looking at Was from morn to night,
When the beauteous Now, the divine To BE,
Woo with their charms our living sight?
Why should we hear but echoes dull,
When the world of sound, so beautiful,
Will give us music of our own?
Why in the darkness should we grope,
When the sun in heaven's resplendent cope
Shines as bright as ever it shone`?

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`.

6. They, through faith, subdued kingdoms'— wrought right. cousness 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 offended. Hamlet. Mother, you have my father much offended. 9. Nay, an thou 'lt mouth, I'll rant as well as thoû. 10. If you said so, then I said sô.

11. "Tis green, 't is green, sir, I assure ye!

"Green!" cries the other, in a fury;

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'Why, sir, d'ye think I've lost my eyes?"

1. He that trusts you,

no!

Where he should find you lions, finds you.. HARES;
Where foxes.. GEESE! You are no surer
Than is the coal of fire upon the ice,
Or hailstone in the sun. * * He that depends
Upon your favors swims with fins of lead,
And hews down oaks with rushes. Hang ye!
With every minute you do change a mind:
And call him noble, that was now your hate,
Him vile, that was your garland.

2. The gloomiest day hath gleams of light;

The darkest wave hath white foam near it;
And twinkles through the cloudiest night
Some solitary star to cheer it.

The gloomiest soul is not all gloom;

The saddest heart is not all sadness;
And sweetly o'er the darkest doom

Trust ye?

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 !"
And a rich knave 's a libel on our laws.

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,
If.. Rome.. must..fall, that we are innocent.

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 They cannot remedy barrenness; but they can correct redundancy.

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