6. From Campbell's Pleasures of Hope.

Unfading Hope! when life's last embers burn,
When soul to soul, and dust to dust return,
Heaven to thy charge resigns the awful hour!
Oh! then, thy kingdom comes! Immortal Power!
What though each spark of earth-born rapture fly
The quivering lip, pale cheek, and closing eye!
Bright to the soul thy seraph hands convey
The morning dream of life's eternal day-
Then, then, the triumph and the trance begin,
And all the phoenix spirit burns within!

7. From Milton's Paradise Lost.

They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld
Of Paradise, so late their happy seat,

Waved over by that flaming brand; the gate
With dreadful faces thronged, and fiery arms.

Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon;
The world was all before them, where to choose
Their place of rest, and Providence their guide;
They, hand in hand, with wandering step and slow,
Through Eden took their solitary way.

8. The Perfect Woman.- Wordsworth.

And now I see with eye serene,
The very pulse of the machine;
A being breathing thoughtful breath,
A traveller between life and death;
The reason firm, the temperate will,
Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill;
A perfect woman, nobly planned,
To warn, to comfort, and command;
And yet a spirit still, and bright
With something of an angel light.

9. From Pope's Essay on Man.

Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate,
All but the page prescribed, their present state;-
From brutes what men, from men what spirits know,
Or who could suffer being here below?

The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day,
Had he thy reason, would he skip and play?
Pleased to the last he crops the flowery food,
And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood!
Oh, blindness to the future, kindly given,
That each may fill the circle marked by Heaven,
Who sees with equal eye, as God of all,

A hero perish, or a sparrow fall.

General Exercises for Analysis and Parsing.

233. Idiomatic and Peculiar Constructions.

Analyze and parse the following examples :—

e learned pagans ridiculed the Jews for being a credulous people.' the barons and freeholders derived their authority from kings is ly a mistake. It is certainly as easy to be a scholar as a gamester. not sure of there ever having been such a man' as Casper Hauser.• boy has more excuses than can be considered' in the allotted hour. times six are thirty-six. He received sixty-two and a half cents very three pounds he furnished. The thought of being good" ought ouse us to action. The higher one is, the farther he can see. ed is he that setteth light by his father or his mother. The distance little short of twenty miles. The wind blows cold. For Jacob my int's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy e. To be good is to be happy. I rejoice in your success as an 'uctor.' He introduced me to the president- -an honor which I shall soon forget. They struck one another. The rain and the sunshine each its appropriate work to do. It is man'sm to err. I am my ved's, and my beloved is mine. There shall nothing die of all that e children's of Israel. Were you at Beecher's last evening's lecture? Henry the Eighth's reign England and Wales were completely united. 3 book was purchased at Little and Brown's. Whom have they ted chairman ? What do you call it? By the world, I would not › a pin if the other three were in. For one to steal is base. To fess the truth, I was in fault. Then shalt thou bring forth that man that woman unto thy gates, and shalt stone them with stones till y shall die. He was so much affected as to weep.❜

. Parse and explain the words in italics:

o affect to be a lord in one's closet would be romantic madness. I not aware of his ever having been a teacher. Was this owing to re being twelve primary deities among the Gothic nations? Wheat is rth a dollar a bushel. The whole affair is of no account whatever. All ngs whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to

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"Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see,

Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be."

Whoever (202, 17) may oppose, we shall press the measure vigorously. cuse me this once.

And all the air a solemn stillness holds,

Save (224, 4) where the beetle wheels his droning flight.

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200, 1. b.; 200, 7; 198, 5; d 200, b.; 226, 6; 204, 4; 206, 12; 206, 19; 206, 10; 206, 13; * 208, 12; 1 208, 13; m 210, 7; " 212, a.; 224, a.; P 222, 3; 220, 4, d.; * 226, 6.

A messenger came rushing from the crowd. The fire turned the cu black. The knife was ground sharp. The more I read it the better like it. "Who are you?" was his greeting to this strange intruder "I will not hurt you," was the answer. Let there be light. Everything depends upon who compose the committee. We found four persons namely, two men and two women. He is both witty and wise. Parre will talk like persons. The boy is like his father. He gave some apostla and some prophets; and some evangelists; and some pastors and teacher He bids whoever thirst to come. Though he was rejected, he had the boldness even to renew his application. They talked the night away They ran the train at the rate of fifty miles per hour. you call it ? I know not whom to send.

FIGURES.

This is what

NOTE.-A figure is a deviation from the ordinary form, construction, an application of a word. Hence figures are divided into those of Etymolog Syntax, and Rhetoric.

234. Figures of Etymology.

1. A figure of Etymology is a deviation from the ordinary form of a word.

2. Figures of Etymology consist either in a defect, an excess, or a change, in some of the elements of a word.

3. Apharesis cuts off a letter or syllable from the beginning of a word; as, 'gainst, 'gan, for against, began.

4. Syncope removes a letter or syllable from the middle of a word; as, o'er, e'er, lov'd, for over, ever, loved.

5. Apocope cuts off a letter or syllable from the end of a word; as, th', tho', for the, though.

6. Prosthesis adds a letter or syllable to the beginning of a word; as, adown, enchain, for down, chain.

7. Epenthesis adds a letter or syllable to the middle of a word; as, preventative, retractation, for preventive, retraction. This figure seldom occurs in English.

8. Paragoge adds a letter or syllable to the end of a word; as, withouten, bounden, for without, bound.

9. Synæresis contracts two syllables into one; as, thou'rt, 'tis for thou art, it is.

Figures. Figures of Etymology. Apheresis. Syncope. Apocope. Pros thesis. Epenthesis. Paragoge. Synæresis.

0. Diaresis separates two vowels which otherwise might form phthong; as, coördinate, zoölogy.

1. Tmesis separates a compound word by inserting a word ween its parts; as, to us ward, for toward us.

235. Exercise.

. Point out the figures in the following examples :—
Around 'gan Marmion wildly stare.

The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men.
Did ye not hear it? No: 'twas but the wind.

'Tis mine to teach th' inactive hand to reap
Kind nature's bounties, o'er the globe diffus'd.

O, what's the matter? what's the matter?
What is't that ails young Harry Gill?

A heart has throbbed beneath that leathern breast,
And tears adown that dusky cheek have rolled.

He led, I wot, the softest way to death,

And taught withouten pain and strife to yield the breath.

2. What figures would you employ to render the following lines harme

us:

It is the sunset of life gives me mystical lore.

For we have sworn, by our country's assaulters,
By the virgins they have dragged from our altars.
And every tempest howling over his head
Renders the savage wilderness more wild.

236. Figures of Syntax.

1. A figure of Syntax is a deviation from the ordinary construcon of a word.

2. Figures of Syntax consist in a defect, an excess, or a change in some the elements of a sentence.

3. Ellipsis is the omission of a word, phrase, or clause, which necessary to complete the construction; as, "We were absent during] one day."

4. It should be understood that the words omitted by this figure as

Diæresis. Tmesis. Figures of syntax.

truly belong to the sentence, grammatically considered, as those which are expressed. They are omitted for rhetorical effect, that is, to render the sentence more agreeable and forcible.

5. Ellipsis generally takes place,

(a.) In coördinate constructions, to avoid the repetition of some common part; as,

"There are some who write, [and who] talk, [and who] think so much about vice and [about] virtue, that they have no time to practise either the one or the other."

(b.) In certain subordinate constructions, especially those which denote comparison, for the same reason; as,—

"Revenge is a stronger feeling than gratitude [is]. ' "Our minds are as different as our faces [are]."

(c.) In certain idiomatic constructions,—

(1.) In elements of the first class,—the subject of imperative sentences; $5 Go [thou]." "Awake [ye]." The noun after adjectives or after the pos Bessive case; as, "The violent [persons] take it by force." "This book mine," i. e., my book.

(2.) In elements of the second class. The connective may be omitted. Examples.-The to before the indirect object; as, "He gave [to] me a book.” The to of the infinitive after bid, dare, let, make, hear, need, feel, see. To or unto after like, near; as, like [to] his father, near [to] the house. During, over, for, in, or on, before nouns denoting time, the measure of distance, magnitude, or excess; as, "They left [on] Monday." "They travelled [through] twenty miles."

The object may be omitted; as, "The leaves were scattered around [us].” In such cases, the preposition is usually called an adverb.

(3.) In elements of the third class. The connective may be omitted in substantive clauses in the objective; as, "My heart whispers [that] God is nigh." In adjective clauses when the relative is in the objective; as, "The paper [which] we purchased is damaged." "The house [which] we went to stands on a hill."

The subject and copula in expressions like "If [it is] possible, if necessary, if convenient, when agreeable, while absent," &c.

The whole clause between as and if, as and though; as, "He seemed as [he would seem] if [he were] deranged."

(d.) In exclamatory sentences, in responsives, in inscriptions, and titles; as, [It is] strange!" "Whom did you see? [I saw] George." "[This is] the New Testament."

6. Pleonasm is the use of superfluous words; as, "I know thee who thou art."

NOTE.-Pleonasm is the opposite of ellipsis, and may be said, in general, to take place where ellipsis should, but does not, take place.

Ellipsis in coördinate, subordinate, and idiomatic constructions. Ellipsis in exclamatory sentences, &c. Pleonasm.