a-Whether I get thrashed for it or not, I'll go right up
to the teacher and tell her what I think of her.
b-Yes, sir, I went right up to the President and con-
fronted him.

Classical.

Let it fall . . . though the fork invade
The region of my heart.

34. BRAVERY:

SHAKESPEARE, King Lear, i, 1.

Colloquial.

a-It means death, sir, but I'll go.

b-What if there be ten to one, I'll fight.

Classical.

-Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead!

35. CALLING:

SHAKESPEARE, Henry V, iii, 1.

Colloquial.

ɑ—Do you hear me up there? Are you in the tower? George! George! Come down, I say!

b

Classical.

Awake! Awake!

Ring the alarm-bell :-Murder and treason!
Banquo, and Donalbain! Malcolm! Awake!

36. CALM: (See Repose.)

SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth, ii, 3.

Colloquial.

a-Everything is so calm, so quiet, so still.

Classical.

I feel within me

A peace above all earthly dignities,
A still and quiet conscience.

SHAKESPEARE, Henry VIII, iii, 2.

37. CAREFULNESS: (See Caution.)

Colloquial.

a-Be steady-so-steady.

b-There, I'll place that exactly on the line-so.

a-Look out there, or you'll fall: go slow; steady.
b-We'll have to be careful; very, very, careful.

c-Mark my word, that course will lead us into serious
trouble.

Classical.

d- Touch this sparingly, as 'twere far off;
Because, you know, my mother lives.

SHAKESPEARE, Richard III, iii, 5.

39. CERTAINTY: (See Assertion, Conviction.)

40. CHALLENGE: (See Defiance.)

Colloquial.

a-Come out if you dare and fight. I challenge you.

Classical.

b-Nay, answer me; stand, and unfold yourself.

SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet, i, 1.

41. CLIMAX:

Colloquial.

a-He called me a liar, a thief, a murderer!

b-Oh, gentlemen, it was grand, sublime, masterful, wonderful.

c—I shall denounce him here, I shall denounce him at the convention, I shall denounce him in the Senate, I shall denounce him everywhere.

d—Yes, I did it yesterday, I did it today, and I'll do it tomorrow.

e-I shall do it tomorrow, I did it today, and I did it yesterday.

Classical.

f-The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve.

SHAKESPEARE, The Tempest, iv, 1.
g-See, what a grace was seated on this brow;
Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself;
An eye like Mars, to threaten and command;
A station like the herald Mercury,
New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill;
A combination, and a form, indeed,
Where every god did seem to set his seal,
To give the world assurance of a man.

SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet, iii, 4.

42. COAXING: (See Entreaty, Appeal.)

Colloquial.

a-Oh, papa, please take me to the circus, do; I'll be so

good if you do.

Won't you?

Do.

b—Please tell me what

she said, do.

I won't repeat it for

the world. Tell me, O, do.

Classical.

c-I prythee call him back. . . . Good love, call him

back.

SHAKESPEARE, Othello, iii, 3.

d-Sweet, sweet nurse, tell me, what says my love?

SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet, ii, 5.

43. COMMENDATION: (See Praise, Admiration.)

a-He won't pay the slightest attention to me.
b-Not once have you kept your promise.

Classical.

c-My lord of Gloster, I have long borne
Your blunt upbraidings and your bitter scoffs:
By heaven, I will acquaint his majesty
Of those gross taunts that oft I have endured.
SHAKESPEARE, Richard III, i, 3.

45. COMPARISON:

Colloquial.

a-That is good, this is better, but this is best.

b-This one is brighter, but the other has the nobler countenance.

c-I should say this weighs about two pounds and this two and a half.

d

Classical.

It [mercy] becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown;
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,

Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
But mercy is above this sceptred sway;

It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,

It is an attribute of God himself;

And earthly power doth then show likest God's
When mercy seasons justice.

SHAKESPEARE, Merchant of Venice, iv, 1.

e-Brutus, and Caesar: what should be in that Caesar?
Why should that name be sounded more than yours?
Write them together, yours is as fair a name;
Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well;
Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with them,
Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.

SHAKESPEARE, Julius Caesar, i, 2.

c-Back, back, you cowards! Would you lose your honor?

Back!

d-Hold! for your lives!

Classical.

SHAKESPEARE, Othello, ii, 3.

SHAKESPEARE, Richard III, i, 2.

e-Stay! you that bear the corse, and set it down.

47. CONCESSION: (See Frankness.)

Colloquial.

a—Yes, I'll grant that much.

b-I admit it was partly my fault, not all.

c-I will give you a piece of it, but not all of it.

Classical.

d-I grant I am a woman.

SHAKESPEARE, Julius Caesar, ii, 1.

48. CONDEMNATION: (Solemn)

Colloquial.

a-You have brought upon yourself a terrible responsi

bility.

b-You have made everybody feel awful.