Nō sail from day to day, but every day The blaze upon his island overhead; The blaze upon the waters to the west; Then the great stars that globed1 themselves in heaven, sail.3 TENNYSON. 13. 14. MISFORTUNE COMES IN TROOPS. Never stoops the soaring vulture MACBETH'S APPEAL TO THE WITCHES. I conjure you by that which you profess (Howe'er you come to know it) answer me; LONGFELLOW. Though you untie the winds and let them fight Though bladed corn be lodged and trees blown down; Though palaces and pyramids do slope Their heads to their foundations; though the treasure SHAKSPEARE. SUSPENSIVE STATEMENTS. 65 15. When the mountains shall be dissolved; when the fountains shall be destroyed; when all sensible will still be the everlasting God; when they of the earth and the world DR. CHALMERS. 16. Whenever you see a people making progress in vice; whenever you see them discovering a growing disregard to the divine law; there you see proportionable advances made to ruin and misery. 17. If, when we behold a well-made and well-regulated watch, we infer the operations of a skilful artificer; then none but a "fool ” indeed can contemplate the universe, all whose parts are so admirably formed, and so harmoniously adjusted, and yet say 'there is no God." 66 18. After we have practised good actions for a while they become easy; and when they are easy we begin to take pleasure in them; and when they please us we do them frequently; and by frequency of acts, a thing grows into a habit ; and a confirmed habit is a second kind of nature; and so far as anything is natural, so far it is necessary, and we can hardly do otherwise; nay, we do it many times when we do not think of it. 19. EPITAPH ON A HERO. Here lies one who never drew Would advance, present, and fire. Stout he was, and large of limb, Cowl E3. F 20. THE HAPPY LIFE. How happy is he born and taught, Whose passions not his masters are, Who envies none that chance doth raise Who hath his life from rumours freed; Who God doth late and early pray, -This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise all. SIR HENRY WOTTON. 1. These lines are to be read with great slowness and solemnity. 2. Entrance and within are the emphatic words, as they are contrasted. (To p. 61.) 1. Plenty bade to bloom, that is, to which prosperity gave happiness. 2. Desires that were very moderate. 3. Satan. This is an extract from the First Book of Paradise Lost. 4. Tried. 5. Blue sky. This verse was written about the death of the Duke of Wellington. 6. Port-hole for a gun. 7. The ocean of death. 8. The old names for Persia and India. 9. Dressed as if for a festival. 10. These are supposed to be three names for one power. (To p. 62.) 1. Thoroughly satisfied. 2. Dark. 3. Brilliance. 4. Picturesque. 5. That is, the tropic zone. 6. Countless. 7. The highest point of the island. 8. The sea. 9. An opening between rocks. (To p. 63.) 1. Appeared as large as globes of light. 2. That bellowed hollower than in the day-time. 3. A melancholy falling inflection. 4. His prey-or, food that he has discovered. 5. Aerial is a difficult word to pronounce. It should be taken to pieces: a-ër-a-ër-i-al. 6. Air. 7. Wings. (To p. 64.) THE danger, in reading this kind of sentence, is that the reader should consciously and intentionally change his voice. This would be a great mistake. Change of voice there will be; but it should arise, and must arise, only from a change of feeling. The change of feeling will communicate itself to the listener; and thus the right effect will be produced without any conscious effort on the part of the reader. Each passage should be carefully read over in silence several times by the pupil, and fully questioned on by the teacher. 3. 4. The wretch, concentred all in self,1 I gazed upon the glorious sky, And thought, that when I came to lie "Twere pleasant, that in flowery June, The sexton's hand, my grave to make, The rich green mountain turf should break. Stop, mortal! Here thy brother lies- His books were rivers, woods, and skies, His teachers were the torn heart's wail," The street, the factory, the jail, The palace and the grave! The meanest thing, earth's feeblest worm, But, honoured in a peasant's form The equal of the great. SCOTT. MOTHERWELL. He blessed the steward," whose wealth makes Yet loathed the haughty wretch that takes A hand to do, a head to plan, A heart to feel and dare Tell men's worst foes Who drew them here lies the man as they are. MONTGOMERY. 5. The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build Then straight she shows 'twas not for want of voice, a choice; are stretched her note she fetched. WALLER. |