Sodom it would have remained until this day. But I say unto you, That it shall be more tòlerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgement, than for thee.

5. Such, sir, was once the disposition of a people, who now surround your throne with reproaches and complaints. Do justice to yourself. Banish from your mind those unworthy opinions, with which some interested persons have labored to possess you. Distrust the men who tell you that the English are naturally light and incònstant; that they complain without a caùse. Withdraw your confidence equally from all parties; from ministers, favorites, and relations; and let there be one moment in your life, in which you have consulted your own understanding.

6. You have done that, you

should be sorry for.

There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats;
For I am arm'd so strong in honesty,
That they pass by me as the idle wind,
I did send to you

5 Which I respect not.
For certain sums of gòld, which

you denied me,

For I can raise no money by vile means;

-I had rather coin my heart,

And drop my bloòd for drachmas, than to wring 10 From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash, By any indirection. I did send

To you for gold to pay my lègions,

Which you denied me: Was that done like Cassius?
Should I have answer'd Caius Cassius só?

15 When Marcus Brùtus grows so covetous,
To lock such rascal counters from his friends,
* Be ready, gōds, with all your thunderbolts,
Dash him to pieces!

7. The war, that for a space did fail,
Now trebly thundering swell'd the gale,
And-Stanley! was the cry;-

A light on Marmion's visage spread.
And fired his glazing eye:

Shakspeare.

*The reader will observe, that the notation is more various, as the examples become longer, including more variety of rhetorical prin ciples.

With dying hand, above his head,

He shook the fragment of his blade,
And shouted-"Victory!

Charge, Chester, Charge! òn, Stanly, on!"
Were the last words of Marmion!

8. So judge thou still, presumptuous!-till the wrath, Which thou incurr'st by flying, meet thy flight, Sev'nfold, and scourge that wisdom back to Hèll, Which taught thee yet no better, that no pain 5 Can equal anger infinite provok'd.

But wherefore thou alone? wherefore with thee
Came not all Hèll broke loose? is pain to them
Less pain, less to be fléd? or thou than they
Less hardy to endure? Courageous Chief!
10 The first in flight from pain!-hadst thou allèg'd
To thy deserted host this cause of flight,
Thou surely hadst not come sòle fugitive.

9. To whom the warrior Angel soon reply'd.
To say, and straight unsay, pretending first
Wise to fly pain, professing next the spy,
Argues no leader, but a lìar, trac'd,

Milton.

5 Satan!-and couldst thou faithful add? O name,
O sacred name of faithfulness profan'd!
Faithful to whòm? to thy rebellious créw?
Army of Fiends!-fit body to fit head!
Was this your discipline and faith engag'd,
10 Your military obedience, to dissolve

Allegiance to th' acknowledg'd Pow'r supreme?
And thou, sly hypocrite, who now wouldst seem
Patron of liberty, who more than thou

Once fawn'd, and crìng'd, and servilely ador'd
15 Heav'n's awful Monarch? wherefore, but in hope
To dispossess him, and thyself to reign.

But mark what I arreed thee now;-Avaùnt:
Fly thither whence thou flèd'st: if from this hour,
Within these hallow'd limits thou appear,
20 Back to th' infernal pīt I drag thee chained.
And seal thee so, as henceforth not to scorn
The facile gates of Hell, too slightly barr'd.

Milton.

Apostrophe and exclamation, as well as the imperative mode, when accompanied by emphasis, incline the voice to the falling inflec tion.

10. Oh! deep-enchanting prelude to repose,
The dawn of bliss, the twilight of our wòes!
Yet half I hear the panting spirit sigh,
It is a dread and awful thing to die!

5 Mystèrious worlds! untravell'd by the sun,
Where Time's far wandering tide has never run,
From your unfathom'd shades, and viewless spheres,
A warning comes, unheard by other ears-

'Tis heaven's commanding trumpet, long and loud,
10 Like Sinai's thùnder, pealing from the cloud!
Daughter of Faith, awake! arise! illume
The dread unknown, the chàos of the tomb!
Melt, and dispel, ye spectre doubts, that roll
Cimmerian darkness on the parting sòul!
15 Fly, like the moon-eyed herald of dismay,
Chased on his night-steed, by the star of day!
The strife is o'er!-the pangs of nature close,
And life's last rapture triumphs o'er her woes!
Hark! as the spirit eyes, with eagle gaze,
20 The noon of heaven, undazzled by the blaze,
On heavenly winds that waft her to the sky,
Float the sweet tones of star-born mélody;
Wild as the hallow'd anthem sent to hail
Bethlehem's shepherds in the lonly vale,

25 When Jordan hush'd his waves, and midnight still
Watch'd on the holy towers of Zion hill!

11.

-Piety has found

Campbell

Friends in the Friends of science, and true prayer
Has flow'd from lips wet with Castalian dews.
Such was thy wisdom, Newton, child-like sage!
5 Sagacious reader of the Works of God,
And in his Word sagacious. Such too thine,
Milton, whose genius had angelic wings,
And fed on manna. And such thine, in whom
Our British THEMIS gloried with just cause,
10 Immortal Hàle! for deep discernment prais'd,
And sound integrity, not more, than fam'd
For sanctity of manners undefil'd.

12. These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame,

Thus wond'rous fair; thyself how wond'rous then!
Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heav'ns

5 To us invisible, or dimly seen

In these thy lowest works; yet these declare
Thy goodness beyond thought, and pow'r divine.
Speak, ye who best can tell, ye sons of light,
Angels; for ye behold him, and with songs
10 And choral symphonies, day without night,
Circle his throne rejoicing; ye in Heaven,
On earth, join àll ye creatures to extol
Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.
Fairest of stars, last in the train of night,

15 If better thou belong not to the dawn,

Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime. Thou Sun, of this great world both eye and soul, 20 Acknowledge him thy greater, sound his praise In thy eternal course, both when thou climb'st, And when high noon hast gain'd, and when thou fall'st Mòon, that now meet'st the orient Sun, now fly'st, With the fix'd stars, fix'd in their orb that flies, 25 And ye five òther wand'ring Fires, that move In mystic dance, not without song, resound His praise, who out of darkness call'd up light. Air, and ye Elements, the eldest birth

Of nature's womb, that in quaternion run 30 Perpetual circle, multiform; and mix,

And nourish all things, let your ceaseless change
Vary to our great Maker still new praise.

His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow,
Breathe soft or loud; and wave your tops, ye pines,
35 With every plant, in sign of worship, wave.
Fountains, and ye that warble as ye flow,
Melodious murmurs, warbling, tune his praise.
Join voices all, ye living Souls; ye Birds,
That singing, up to Heaven's gate ascend,

40 Bear on your wings, and in your notes his praise.

9

Milton.

EXERCISE 9.

Page 35. Emphatic succession of particulars requires the

falling slide.

Notes 1 and 2, page 35, should be examined before reading this class of Exercises.

1. He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man;-the field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom: but the tares are the children of the wicked one;-the enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the àngels.

2. For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another, the word of knowledge, by the same Spirit ;to another, faith, by the same Spirit; to another, the gifts of healing, by the same Spirit;-to another, the working of miracles; to another, pròphecy; to another, discerning of spirits; to another, divers kinds of tóngues; to another the interpretation of tongues.

3. Holiness is ascribed to the Pòpe; majesty, to kings; serenity, or mildness of temper, to princes; excellence, o. perfection, to ambassadors; grace, to archbishops; honor, to pèers; worship, or venerable behavior, to magistrates; and reverence, which is of the same import as the former, to the inferior clèrgy.

4. It pleases me to think that I, who know so small a portion of the works of the Creator, and with slow and painful steps, creep up and down on the surface of this glóbe, shall, ere long, shoot away with the swiftness of imagination; trace out the hidden springs of nature's operàtions; be able to keep pace with the heavenly bodies in the rapidity of their career; be a spectator of the long chain of events in the natural and moral worlds; visit the several apartments of creàtion; know how they are furnished and how inhabited; comprehend the order and measure, the magnitude and distances of those orbs, which, to us, seem disposed without any regular design, and set all in the same circle; observe the dependents of the parts of each system; and (if our minds are big enough) grasp the theory of the several systems upon one another, from whence results the harmony of the universe.

5. He who cannot persuade himself to withdraw from society, must be content to pay a tribute of his time to a