He spoke, and fondly gazing on her charms,
Restored the pleasing burden to her arms;
Soft on her fragrant breast the babe she laid,
Hushed to repose, and with a smile surveyed.
The troubled pleasure soon chastised by fear,
She mingled with a smile a tender tear.
The softened chief with kind compassion viewed,
And dried the falling drops, and thus pursued:
"Andromache! my soul's far better part,
Why with untimely sorrows heaves thy heart?
No hostile hand can antedate my doom,
Till fate condemns me to the silent tomb.
Fixed is the term to all the race of earth,
And such the hard condition of our birth;
No force can then resist, no flight can save,
All sink alike, the fearful and the brave.
No more-but hasten to thy tasks at home,
There guide the spindle and direct the loom;
Me glory summons to the martial scene,
The field of combat is the sphere for men.
Where heroes war, the foremost place I claim,
The first in danger as the first in fame."
Thus having said, the glorious chief resumes
His towery helmet, black with shading plumes.
His princess parts with a prophetic sigh,
Unwilling parts, and oft reverts her eye
That streamed at every look; then, moving slow,
Sought her own palace, and indulged her woe.
-From Pope's Translation of the Iliad.
PROSPERO TO HIS SON-IN-LAW.
11. You do look, my son, in a moved sort,
As if you were dismayed: be cheerful, sir:
Our revels now are ended: these our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits, and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve;
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made of, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.-Shakespeare.
12. My fairest child, I have no song to give you;
No lark could pipe to skies so dull and gray;
Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you
For every day.
Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever;
Do noble things, not dream them, all day long;
And so make life, death, and that vast forever
One grand sweet song.-Charles Kingsley.
INDEX.
Numbers Refer to Pages.
Absolute construction, 37.
Absolute tenses, 117.
Abstract nouns, 20, 36.
Active voice, 108.
Adjectives, definition,
classes, 71; descriptive, 71,
72; common, 73; proper,73;
verbal, 73; definitive, 72;
articles, 78; definite, 78;
indefinite, 78; pronominals,
83; demonstratives,
distributives, 83; indefi-
nites, 84; interrogatives,
84; numerals, 84; cardinals,
84; ordinals, 84; multipli-
catives, 85; forms, 72; sim-
ple, 72; compound, 72; com-
plex, 72; comparison, 73;
positive degree, 73; com-
parative degree, 73; super-
lative degree, 73; construc-
tions, 85; predicative, 85;
adverbial predicative, 85;
appositive, 86; factitive,
86; attributive, 87.
Adjective clauses, 215.
Adjective phrases, 202.
Adverbs, definition, 18; con-
structions, 130; classes as
to use, 131; pure, 132; in-
terrogative, 133; conjunc-
tive, 134; responsive, 135;
classes as to idea expressed,
135; classes as to form,
136; simple, 136; flexional,
136; complex, 136;
parison, 132; modal, 135.
Adverb clauses, 216.
Adverbial objective, 45.
Adverbial predicate adjective,
85.
Adverb phrase, 202.
Adversative conjunction, 152.
All, uses of, 175.
Alternative conjunction, 152.
Analysis, definition of, 203.
Antecedent, 66, 143.
Any, uses of, 175.
Appositive adjectives, 86.
Appositive nouns, 44.
Articles, 78.
As, uses of, 175.
Attributes, 9, 12.
Attribute complement, 36, 44.
Attribute-ideas, 11.
Attributive words, 15.
Auxiliary verbs, 104.
Base of an element, 192.
Better, uses of, 175.
Both, uses of, 175.
But, uses of, 175.
Capitals, rules for use of, 249.
Cardinals, 84.
Caret, use of, 256.
Case, defined, 34.
Causal conjunctions, 154.
Clausal phrase, 165, 169.
Clauses, classification of, 61,
213.
Cognate object, 43.
Collective nouns, 20, 31.
Colon, uses of, 254.
Comparison of adjectives, 72,
73; of adverbs, 132.
Object of a preposition, 43.
Object of a verb, 42, 95; di-
rect, 42; indirect, 42; cog-
nate, 43; factitive, 43; da-
tive, 43.
Objective, adverbial, 45.
Only, uses of, 177.
Order, 196; natural, 196; in-
verted, 196.
Parenthesis, use of, 255.
Parsing, definition of, 45.
Participles, 165; uses of, 166.
Passive voice, 108, 126.
Past tense, 117.
Past perfect tense, 118.
Period, uses of, 250.
Person, defined, 23, 119.
Phrases, 200.
Pleonasm, 38.
Possessive case, 39, 40.
Potential mode, 113.
Predicate, definition of, 199.
Predicate adjective, 85; pred-
icate noun, 36.
Prepositions, 15, 142, 144, 145.
Prepositional phrases, 201.
Present tense, 117.
Present perfect tense, 118.
Principal parts of a verb, 96.
Progressive forms, 104, 126.
Pronominal adjectives, 83.
Pronouns, definition of, 50;
personal, 51; relative, 58;
interrogative, 64.
Proper adjectives, 73.
Proper nouns, 19, 20.
Punctuation, 249.
Questions, direct, 66; indirect,
66.
Quotation marks, 255.
Redundant verbs, 103.
Reflexive use of pronouns, 56.
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