many Greek derivatives in each? 7. Compare the two selections in point of figurative and other forms of emotional words. 8. Considering the education and other advantages of the two men, what strikes you?

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A STUDY OF "LANDSCAPE AND WATERFALL."

1. (a) What mood is suggested by the plunging, foaming water? (b) What by the great rocks in the bed of the stream along the banks? (c) What by the scanty-limbed pines? (d) What by the mountains in the back-ground?

2. (a) Do the stag and the birds affect the mood of the picture? How? (b) Imagine them omitted. What change of mood in the picture?

3. Compare the mood here with those in the pictures found in Chapters XVI. and XIX.

4. Describe the picture so as to bring out clearly the mood.

5. Bring in other pictures of the same mood. Mount and hang in the room.

6. Imagine what this landscape would be in the winter, and describe it.

7. Study carefully the principles laid down in the following:

When we see-I mean we who are sensitive to these influences-when we see the kind of effect that we call an impressive or a noble effect, our feeling is distinctly that the wonderful powers of nature are expressing themselves to us in an especial manner by the display of that transient beauty, or splendor, or melancholy solemnity. It seems like a communication from the Eternal Source to short-lived mortals, and this impression is enhanced-immeasurably enhanced-by the remarkable fact that the grander effects last just long enough for our powers of attention. They also begin quietly, gradually increase in intensity, reach their highest perfection, and then rapidly fade in color, whilst the well combined arrangement of form and light becomes

disorganized. In this they exactly answer to our capacity of attention, which is easily fatigued, and requires the most varied degrees of excitement; and so the natural effect is incomparably more interesting than the fixed representation of it in painting.HAMERTON: Imagination in Landscape Painting.

CHAPTER XXI.

PERSUASIVE DISCOURSE.

Persuasive discourse includes orations, sermons, and many subjects of debate. It is a form of discourse intended to move men to belief and action, and appeals to reason and to feeling, especially the latter. The following is one of the most remarkable discourses of this kind that has ever been written.

I.

ANTONY'S ORATION.

[Brutus, Cassius, Casca, and others have assassinated Cæsar. Brutus has just made a speech explaining why they did it. The fickle Roman populace is with Brutus now. Antony begs to bury Cæsar and to speak the funeral oration over him. Brutus allows him to do so, and even exhorts the people to hear Antony, and to show respect to the dead Cæsar.]

Ant. Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;

I come to bury Cæsar, not to praise him.
The evil, that men do, lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Cæsar. The noble Brutus
Hath told you, Cæsar was ambitious:

If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Cæsar answer'd it.

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Here, under leave of Brutus, and the rest--
For Brutus is an honourable man;

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So are they all, all honourable men-
Come I to speak in Cæsar's funeral.

He was my friend, faithful and just to me:

But Brutus says, he was ambitious,

And Brutus is an honourable man.

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