52. It had been determined not to bring him to trial for his recent offence, but to put him to death under the sentence pronounced against him several years before. 53. He travelled in great state, riding upon a mule covered with crimson velvet. 54. Wolsey found that it was no good trying to change the king's mind. 55. It was his constant practice to keep his birthday as a day of mourning. 56. Lashed to the helm, all stiff and stark, With his face turned to the skies;

The lantern gleamed through the gleaming snow
On the fixed and glassy eyes.

57. Oh, fond attempt to give a deathless lot
To names ignoble, born to be forgot.

58. Thinking to amuse my father once, after his retirement from the ministry, I offered to read a book of history. 59. Oh! 'tis cruelty to beat a cripple with his own crutches. 60. It was not in her nature to increase her vexations by dwelling on them. 61. You are lucky in having such a master. 62. How much of pleasure or of pain it was in his power to bestow. 63. At length every idea seemed to fail him; and after standing a few moments without saying a word, he suddenly recollected himself and took leave. 64. Striving to better, often we mar what's 65. Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.

well.

66.

67.

68.

69.

70,

Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn
Brushing with hasty steps the dews away,
To meet the sun upon the upland lawn.
'Tis a sight to engage me, if anything can,
To muse on the perishing pleasures of man.
The fire, with well-dried logs supplied,
Went roaring up the chimney wide.

One summer day I chanced to see

This old man doing all he could

To unearth the root of an old tree.
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien
As, to be hated, needs but to be seen.

EXERCISE IN SUBJECT AND PREDICATE. (See 32-49.)

NOTE.-Examples 1-150 may be analysed in the Long Form as well as in the Short Form; Examples 151-266 in the Short Form only.

The Examples are not arranged in order of difficulty.

1. Death reigns there without a rival and without control.

2. Crusades were an effervescence of chivalry.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

11.

I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers,
From the seas and the streams.

In a cavern under is fettered the thunder.

Fill high the bowl with Samian wine.

Here rests his head upon the lap of earth,
A youth to fortune and to fame unknown.
Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight.
There is no hope for us.

'Tis sweeter far to me
To walk together to the kirk

With a goodly company.

Nodding their heads, before her goes

The merry minstrelsy.

Oft, at evening's close,

Up yonder hill the village murmur rose.

12. From all parts of the field messengers came to us bearing the same news. 13. Trust not one night's ice. 14. He preached against stealing, having a stolen goose in

his pocket. 15. In the kingdom of blind men the oneeyed is king. 16. Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints. 17. Good measure, pressed down and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. 18. It required a great amount of courage to face the enemy.

19.

20.

21.

22.

23.

24.

Lightly and brightly breaks away
The morning from her mantle gray.
Sweet to the morning traveller
The song amid the sky.

(But) petted in our climate cold,
He lived and chattered many a day.

Then opened wide the baron's hall
To vassal, tenant, serf and all.

Into the valley of death

Rode the six hundred.

Home they brought her warrior dead.

25. Here comes his body, mourned by Mark Antony. 26. Unto the upright there ariseth light in darkness. Down they move, a melancholy band.

27.

28.

With our tongues will we prevail.

29. The young lion and the adder shalt thou tread under thy feet.

30. Put not your trust in princes.

Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him.

Higher still and higher

From the earth thou springest.

31.

32.

36.

No more shall nation against nation rise.

37. To such a height of power had this extraordinary man risen at twenty-nine years of age.

38. Now with a general peace the earth was blest. 39. Privily in his lurking dens doth he murder the poor. 40. Under his tongue is ungodliness and vanity. 41. Break Thou the power of the ungodly and malicious. 42. In the very act of addressing the peers he fell back in convulsions.

43. It was necessary for him to follow a profession.

44. On pitched fields of battle the advantage had been with the disciplined troops of the mother country.

45. There may perhaps be some truth in this observation. 46. It was a privilege to listen to those accomplished and ingenious orators.

47. So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed.

48. Pale grew thy cheek and cold.

49.

To things immortal time can do no wrong. 50. These honours peace to happy Britain brings. Thus ended a war of ten years' duration.

51.

52.

Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works. 53. Not yet on Switzerland had dawned her day of liberty.

54. Why cumbereth it the ground?

58. (But) amidst these scenes of festivity and pleasure Philip's natural severity of temper was discernible.

59.

So easy still it proves in factious times

With public zeal to cancel private crimes.

60. On these two commandments hang all the law and

the prophets.

61.

62.

Around, in sympathetic mirth,

Its tricks the kitten tries.

The livelong night in Branksome rang

The ceaseless sound of steel.

63. It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding.

64.

65.

66.

67.

When shall we three meet again?

There to their queen a chosen train
Of nymphs due reverence pay.

Soft sigh the wind of heaven o'er their grave!
Here, a sheer hulk, lies poor Tom Bowling.

68. (Nor) could the king supply the defect of his revenues by the terror of his arms.

69. Provoked by these repeated instances of contempt, the regent abandoned his troublesome duties, and retired to France, preferring the tranquillity of a private life to an office destitute of real authority.

70. Among nobles of a fierce courage and of unpolished manners, surrounded with vassals bold and licentious, the causes of discord were many and unavoidable.

71. Many persons of the first rank had fallen into the hands of the English in the unfortunate rout near the frith of Solway.

72. Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

73. (For) in the night, unseen, a single warrior,
In sombre harness mailed

Dreaded of man, and surnamed the Destroyer,
The rampart wall had scaled.

74. The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung, (Of Bacchus) ever fair and ever young.