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2. CATILINE'S REPLY.

"Banished from Róme!" What's banished but set free From daily contact with the things I loathe? "Tried and convicted trăitor!” Who says this? CROLY.

3. SQUEERS.

"Who cried stop?" said Squeers, turning savagely

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I," said Nicholas, stepping forward. "This must not go on."

“Must not go ón!" cried Squeers, almost in a shriek. "No!" thundered Nicholas.

Call on the class to find five additional illustrations.

DICKENS.

Rule III. Words and phrases of address, unless very emphatic, take the slight rising inflection.

EXAMPLES.

1. Sír, I believe the hour has come.

2. Mr. Président, I desire to offer a resolution. 3. Friends, Rómans, cóuntrymen, lend me your eàrs. 4. Fellow-cítizens, the time for action has còme. 5. Good friends, sweet friends, let me not stir you up To such a sudden flood of mutiny.

Call on each pupil to find one additional illustration.

EXCEPTION.

6. O còmrades! warriors! Thracians! if we must fight, let us fight for ourselves.

7. Princes! pòtentates! wàrriors!

Rule IV. The language of entreaty, coaxing, or flattery, takes the rising inflection.

EXAMPLES.

1. ARTHUR IN KING JOHN.

Alás, what need you be so boisterous-rough?
I will not struggle; I will stand stóne-still.

For heaven's sake, Hubert, let me not be boúnd;
Náy, héar me, Húbert; drive but these mền củy,
And I will sit as quiet as a lùmb;

I will not stír, nor wince, nor speak a word,
Nor look upon the iron ángerly :

Thrust but these mén away, and I'll forgive you,
Whatever torment you do put me to.

2. MRS. CAUDLE'S CURTAIN LECTURES.

I.

SHAKESPEARE.

Now, Caudle, déar, do let us talk comfortably. After all, love, there's a good many folks who, I dare say, don't get on half so well as we've done. We've both our little témpers, perhaps; but you are aggravating; you must own that, Caúdle. Well, never mind; we won't tálk of it; I won't scold you now.

II.

I'm sure I don't object to your being a Mãson; not at ǎll, Cáudle. I dare say it's a very good thing; I dare say it is it's only your making a secret of it that věxes mé. But you'll tell me you'll tell your own Margaret? You won't? You're a wretch, Mr. Caudle.

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HARROLD.

Rule V. Negative expressions, whether of words, phrases, clauses, or sentences, take the rising inflection when they carry the attention forward to a contrasted affirmation, or backward to an affirmative statement.

EXAMPLES.

1. I come not here to tálk.

Ye know too well the story of our thralldom. 2. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alóne. It is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. 3. Tell me nòt, in mournful númbers, Life is but an empty dréam; For the soul is dead that slúmbers, And things are not what they seem.

4. I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts; Í am no orator, as Brutus is:

But, as you know me all, a plain, blunt màn.

5. Cleon hath a million acres-ne'er a one have I'; Cleon dwelleth in a pàlace—in a cottage, l'; Cleon hath a dozen fortunes-not a penny, I'; But the poorer of the twain is Clèon, and nót I'.

6. FREEDOM.

O Freedom! thou art not, as poets dream,

A fair young girl, with light and delicate limbs,
And wavy tresses gushing from the cap
With which the Roman master crowned his slave,
When he took off the gýves. A bearded man,
Armed to the teeth, art thou.

7. THE OCEAN.

BRYANT.

The armaments | which thunderstrike the walls t
Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake,
And monarchs | tremble in their cápitals,
The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make
Their clay creator | the vain title | take |
Of lord of thee, and arbiter of wár;-
Thése, are thy toys, and as the snowy flake |
They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar |
Alike the Armada's príde | or spoils of Trafalgàr.

8. LIBERTY.

BYRON.

Tell me not of the honor of belonging to a free country. I ask, does our liberty bear generous fruits! Does it exalt us in manly spirit, in public virtue, above countries trodden under foot by despotism?-Tell me not of the extent of our country. I care not how large it is, if it multiply degenerate mén. Speak not of our prosperity. Better be one of a poor people, plain in mánners, reverencing Gód, and respecting themselves,

than belong to a rich country, which knows no higher good than riches.

9. WHAT CONSTITUTES A STATE?

What constitutes a Stàte?

Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gáte;

CHANNING.

Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned. Not bays and broad-armed pórts,

Where, laughing at the storm, rich návies ride: Not starred and spangled cóurts

Where low-bred baseness wafts perfume to príde: No; mèn, high-minded mén; men, who their dúties know; But know their rights; and knowing, dare maintàin ; Prevent the long-aimed blow,

And crush the týrant while they rend the chain. Thèse constitute a State.

Call on pupils to find additional examples.

JONES.

Rule VI. Incomplete expressions, whether of phrases or clauses, when they carry the mind forward to something to be stated, require the rising inflection.

EXAMPLES.

1. Born to inherit the most illustrious monarchy in the world, and early united to the object of her choice, the amiable princess, happy in herself, and joyful in her future prospects, little anticipated the fate that was so soon to overtake her.

2. THE PILGRIM FATHERS.

And yet, do you not think, that who so could, by adequate description, bring before you that winter of the Pilgrims, its brief sunshine, the nights of stórm, slow wáning; the damp and icy bréath, felt to the pillow of the dying; its destitutions, its cóntrasts with all their former expérience in life; its utter insulation and loneliness; its death-beds and búrials; its mémories; its ap

prehénsions; its hópes; the consultations of the prúdent; the prayers of the pious; the occasional cheerful hýmn, in which the strong heart threw off its búrthen, and, asserting its unvanquished náture, went úp, like a bird of dawn, to the skies;-do ye not think that whoso could describe them calmly waiting in that defile, lonelier and darker than Thermopyla, for a mórning that might never dáwn, or might show them, when it did, a míghtier arm than the Pérsian, raised as in act to strike, would he not sketch a scene of more difficult and rarer héroism? A scéne, as Wordsworth has said, "mélancholy, yea, dismal, yet consolatory and full of jóy;" a scéne, even better fitted, to súccor, to exált, to lead, the forlorn hopes of all great causes, till tíme shall be nò mòre.

3. THE STRIFE.

Notice that the last four stanzas constitute one sentence.

The wish that of the living whole

No life may fáil beyond the gráve—
Derives it not from what we have

The likest Gód within the soul?

Are God and náture then at strife,

That náture lends such evil dréams?
So careful of the type she seems,
So careless of the single life,

That 1, considering everywhere

Her secret meaning in her déeds,
And finding that of fifty seeds

She often brings but one to bear

I fálter where I firmly tród;

And, falling with my weight of cares
Upon the great world's últar-stairs,
That slope through darkness up to Gód,

CHOATE.

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