has been thus paraphrased :

"I do not esteem as of any value the mere gratifications of passion, where no moral feelings of divine law and personal responsibility are blended."-Poetical Reading Book, p. 7, Note.

Exercise 34.

Paraphrase the following passages; that is, express their meaning in different language :

1. "By night, an atheist half believes a God."-Young.

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"Ill blows the wind that profits nobody."-Shakespeare. 3. "The better part of valour is discretion."--Shakespeare. "It is a wise father that knows his own child."-Shakespeare. "One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."

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-Shakespeare.

"To reign is worth ambition, though in hell:
Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven."-Milton.

66 'For solitude sometimes is best society,

And short retirement urges sweet return."-Milton. "There's a divinity that shapes our ends,

Rough-hew them how we will."-Shakespeare.

"How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child."-Shakespeare.

"The evil that men do lives after them,

The good is oft interred with their bones."-Shakespeare. "Men's evil manners live in brass,

Their virtues we write in water."-Shakespeare. "Stone walls do not a prison make,

Nor iron bars a cage."-Lovelace.

13. "O, what a tangled web we weave

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When first we practise to deceive.'-Scott. "He that complies against his will,

Is of the same opinion still."-Butler.

"The bell struck one. We take no note of time
But from its loss: to give it then a tongue
Is wise in man.”—Young.

"A thing of beauty is a joy for ever;

Its loveliness increases; it will never

Pass into nothingness."-Keats.

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Needs not the foreign aid of ornament,

But is, when unadorned, adorned the most."-Thomson. "To put the power

Of sovereign rule into the good man's hand,

Is giving peace and happiness to millions."-Thomson. "Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just;

And he but naked, tho' locked up in steel,

Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted."-Shakespeare.

""Tis the mind that makes the body rich;

And as the sun breaks thro' the darkest clouds,

So honour peereth in the meanest habit."-Shakespeare.

"And say, without our hopes, without our fears,

Without the home that plighted love endears,
Without the smile from partial beauty won,

Oh! what were man? a world without a sun."-Campbell.

"That loss is common would not make

My own less bitter, rather more:

Too common ! Never morning wore

To evening, but some heart did break."-Tennyson.
"There is a tide in the affairs of men,

Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune ;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life

Is bound in shallows and in miseries."-Shakespeare.

"The sense of death is most in apprehension;
And the poor beetle that we tread upon,
In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great
As when a giant dies."-Shakespeare.

"To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
To throw a perfume on the violet,
To smooth the ice, or add another hue
Unto the rainbow, or, with taper light,

To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,

Is wasteful and ridiculous excess."-Shakespeare.

EVE.-" But that thou should'st my firmness therefore

doubt

To God or thee, because we have a foe

May tempt it, I expected not to hear.
His violence thou fear'st not, being such
As we, not capable of death or pain,
Can either not receive, or can repel.

His fraud is then thy fear; which plain infers

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Thy equal fear that my firm faith and love
Can by his frand be shaken or sedac'd;

Thoughts which how found they harbour in thy breast,
Adam, misthought of her to thee so dear?"-Milton
"And if that eye which watches guilt

And goodness, and hath power to see
Within the green, the moulder'd tree,
And towers fall'n as soon as built;
"Oh, if indeed that eye foresee
Or see (in Him is no before)

In more of life true life no more,
And love the indifference to be,
*So might I find, ere yet the morn
Breaks hither over Indian seas,

That shadow waiting with the keys

To cloak me from my proper scorn."-Tennyson.

SATAN" Princes, potentates,

Warriors, the flower of heaven, once yours, now lost,—
If such astonishment as this can seize

Eternal spirits: or have ye chosen this place,
After the toil of battle to repose

Your wearied virtue, for the ease you find
To slumber here as in the vales of heaven?
Or in this abject posture have ye sworn
Tadore the conqueror? who now beholds
Cherub and scraph rolling in the flood
With scatter'd arms and ensigns, till anon
His swift pursuers, from heaven's gates, discern
The advantage, and, descending, tread us down
Thus drooping, or with linked thunderbolts
Transfix us to the bottom of this gulf!-
Awake, arise, or be for ever fall'n."-Milton.

MACBETH.-"He's here in double trust:
First, as I am his kinsman and his subject,
Strong both against the deed; then, as his host,
Who should against his murderer shut the door,
Not bear the knife myself. Besides, this Duncan
Hath borne his faculties so meek-hath been
So clear in his great office, that his virtues
Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against
The deep damnation of his taking-off;
And pity, like a naked, new-born babe,
Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim, hors'd
Upon the sightless couriers of the air,
Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye

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That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself,
And falls on the other .”—Shakespeare.

"To be, or not to be, that is the question :-
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind, to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And, by opposing, end them?-To die,-to sleep,—
No more; and, by a sleep, to say we end
The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to,-'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die ;—to sleep ;—

To sleep! perchance to dream;-ay, there's the rub:
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: There's the respect,
That makes calamity of so long life:

For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The
pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life;
But that the dread of something after death,-
The undiscover'd country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns,-puzzles the will;
And makes us rather bear those ills we have,
Than fly to others that we know not of!
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution

Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought;
And enterprises of great pith and moment,
With this regard, their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action."-Shakespeare.

31. "Oh! 'tis cruelty to beat a cripple with his own crutches."Fuller.

32. "Every man desireth to live long; but no man would be old.”Swift.

33. "In youth is the time when some ignorance is as necesary as much knowledge."—Ascham.

34. "We know by experience itself, that it is a marvellous pain to find out but a short way by a large wandering.”—Ascham.

35. "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested."-Bacon.

36. "He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain one." -Pope.

37. "No man is wiser for his learning: it may administer matter to work on, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man."-Selden.

38. "It matters not to the sparrow caught in the snare that he is not held tight in every part, but only by the foot; he is a lost bird for all that."-St Chrysostom.

39. "Marshal thy notions into a handsome method. One will carry twice more weight trussed and packed up in bundles, than when it lies untoward, flapping, and hanging about his shoulders. Things orderly fardled up under heads are most portable."-Fuller.

40. "Piety practised in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert, may give its fragrance to the winds of heaven, and delight those unbodied spirits that survey the works of God and the actions of men." -Johnson.

41. "Await the issue. In all battles, if you await the issue, each fighter has prospered according to his right. His right and his might, at the close of the accounts, were one and the same. He has fought with all his might, and in exact proportion to all his right he has prevailed. His very death is no victory over him. He dies indeed, but his work lives, very truly lives."—Carlyle.

42. "The philosopher sheweth you the way, he informeth you of the particularities, as well of the tediousness of the way, as of the pleasant lodging you shall have when your journey is ended, as of the many bye-turnings that may divert you from your way; but this is to no man, but to him that will read him, and read him with attentive, studious painfulness; which constant desire whosoever hath in him, hath already passed half the hardness of the way, and therefore is beholden to the philosopher but for the other half."-Sidney.