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"Vain _tamp'ring_ has but _foster'd_ his disease; _'Tis desp'rate_, and he sleeps the sleep of death."--_Cowper_.
"'I have a pain upon my forehead here'-- 'Why _that's_ with watching; _'twill_ away again.'"--_Shakspeare_.
"I'll to the woods, among the happier brutes; Come, _let's_ away; hark! the shrill horn resounds."--_Smith_.
"_What_ prayer and supplication _soever_ be made."--_Bible_. "By the grace of G.o.d, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly _to_ you _ward_."--_Ib._
LESSON III.--FIGURES OF SYNTAX.
FIGURE I.--ELLIPSIS.
"And now he faintly kens the bounding fawn, And [--] villager [--] abroad at early toil."--_Beattie_.
"The cottage curs at [--] early pilgrim bark."--_Id._
"'Tis granted, and no plainer truth appears, Our most important [--] are our earliest years."--_Cowper_.
"To earn her aid, with fix'd and anxious eye, He looks on nature's [--] and on fortune's course."--_Akenside_.
"For longer in that paradise to dwell, The law [--] I gave to nature him forbids."--_Milton_.
"So little mercy shows [--] who needs so much."--_Cowper_.
"Bliss is the same [--] in subject, as [--] in king; In [--] who obtain defence, and [--] who defend."--_Pope_.
"Man made for kings! those optics are but dim That tell you so--say rather, they [--] for him."--_Cowper_.
"Man may dismiss compa.s.sion from his heart, But G.o.d will never [-------]."--_Id._
"Vigour [--] from toil, from trouble patience grows."--_Beattie_.
"Where now the rill melodious, [--] pure, and cool, And meads, with life, and mirth, and beauty crown'd?"--_Id._
"How dead the vegetable kingdom lies!
How dumb the tuneful [------------]!"--_Thomson_.
"Self-love and Reason to one end aspire, Pain [--] their aversion, pleasure [--] their desire; But greedy that its object would devour, This [--] taste the honey, and not wound the flower."--_Pope_.
LESSON IV.--FIGURES OF SYNTAX.
FIGURE II.--PLEONASM.
"_According_ to their deeds, _accordingly_ he will _repay_, fury to his adversaries, _recompense_ to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompense."--_Isaiah_, lix, 18. "Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, _and my locks with the drops of the night_."--_Song of Sol._, v, 2. "Thou hast chastised me, _and I was chastised_, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, _and I shall be turned_; for thou art the Lord my G.o.d."--_Jer._, x.x.xi, 18.
"Consider the _lilies_ of the field how _they grow_."--_Matt._, vi, 28.
"_He_ that glorieth, let _him_ glory in the Lord."--_2 Cor._, x, 17.
"_He_ too is witness, n.o.blest of the train That wait on man, the flight-performing horse."--_Cowper_.
FIGURE III.--SYLLEPSIS.
"'Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called _Cephas:' which_ is, by interpretation a stone."--_John_, i, 42. "Thus saith the Lord of hosts, 'Behold, I will break the bow of _Elam_, the chief of _their_ might.'"--_Jer._, xlix, 35. "Behold, I lay in Sion a _stumbling-stone_ and _rock_ of offence: and whosoever believeth on _him_ shall not be ashamed."--_Rom._, ix, 33.
"Thus _Conscience_ pleads _her_ cause within the breast, Though long rebell'd against, not yet suppressed."--_Cowper_.
"_Knowledge_ is proud that _he_ has learn'd so much; _Wisdom_ is humble that _he_ knows no more."--_Id._
"For those the _race_ of Israel oft forsook _Their_ living _strength_, and unfrequented left _His_ righteous altar, bowing lowly down To b.e.s.t.i.a.l G.o.ds."--_Milton, Paradise Lost_, B. i, l. 432.
LESSON V.--FIGURES OF SYNTAX.
FIGURE IV.--ENALLAGE.
"Let me tell _you_, Ca.s.sius, _you_ yourself _Are_ much condemned to have an itching palm, To sell and mart _your_ offices for gold."--_Shakspeare_.
"Come, Philomelus; let us _instant_ go, O'erturn his bow'rs, and lay his castle low."--_Thomson_.
"Then palaces shall rise; the joyful son Shall finish what the short-liv'd sire _begun_"--_Pope_.
"Such was that temple built by Solomon, Than _whom_ none richer reign'd o'er Israel."--_Author_.
"He spoke: with fatal eagerness we _burn_, And _quit_ the sh.o.r.es, undestin'd to return."--_Day_.
"Still as he pa.s.s'd, the nations he _sublimes_."--_Thomson_.
"Sometimes, with early morn, he mounted _gay_."--_Id._
"'I've lost a day'--the prince who n.o.bly cried, _Had been_ an emperor without his crown."--_Young_.
FIGURE V.--HYPERBATON.
"Such resting found _the sole_ of unblest feet."--_Milton_.
"Yet, though successless, _will the toil_ delight."--_Thomson_.
"Where, 'midst the changeful scen'ry ever new, Fancy a thousand wondrous _forms_ descries."--_Beattie_.
"Yet so much bounty is in G.o.d, such grace, That who advance his glory, not their own, _Them_ he himself to glory will advance."--_Milton_.
"No quick _reply_ to dubious questions make; Suspense and caution still prevent mistake."--_Denham_.
LESSON VI.--FIGURES OF RHETORIC.
FIGURE I.--SIMILE.
"Human greatness is short and transitory, _as the odour of incense in the fire_."--_Dr. Johnson_. "Terrestrial happiness is of short continuance: _the brightness of the flame is wasting its fuel, the fragrant flower is pa.s.sing away in its own odours_."--_Id._ "Thy nod is _as the earthquake that shakes the mountains_; and thy smile, _as the dawn of the vernal day_."--_Id._
