The Grammar of English Grammars Part 211

"Rapt in future times, the bard begun."

--_Wells's Gram._, 1846, p. 153.

"Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow? Whereunto serves mercy, But to confront the visage of offence!"

--_Hallock's Gram._, 1842, p. 118.

"Look! in this place ran Ca.s.sius's dagger through."

--_Kames, El. of Cr._, Vol. i, p. 74.

"----When they list their lean and flashy songs, Harsh grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw."

--_Jamieson's Rhet._, p. 135.

"Did not great Julius bleed for justice's sake?"

--_Dodd's Beauties of Shak._, p. 253.

"Did not great Julius bleed for justice sake?"

--_Singer's Shakspeare_, Vol. ii, p. 266.

"May I, unblam'd, express thee? Since G.o.d is light."

--_O. B. Peirce's Gram._, p. 290.

"Or hearest thou, rather, pure ethereal stream!"

--_2d Perversion, ib._

"Republics; kingdoms; empires, may decay; Princes, heroes, sages, sink to nought."

--_O. B. Peirce's Gram._, p. 287.

"Thou bringest, gay creature as thou art, A solemn image to my heart."

--_E. J. Hallock's Gram._, p. 197.

"Know thyself presume not G.o.d to scan; The proper study of mankind is Man."

--_O. B. Peirce's Gram._, p. 285.

"Raised on a hundred pilasters of gold."

--_Charlemagne_, C. i, St. 40.

"Love in Adalgise's breast has fixed his sting."

--_Ib._, C. i, St. 30.

"Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November, February twenty-eight alone, All the rest thirty and one."

_Colet's Grammar, or Paul's Accidence_. Lond., 1793, p. 75.

LESSON II.--RESTORE THE RHYTHM.

"'Twas not the fame of what he once had been, Or tales in old records and annals seen."

--_Rowe's Lucan_, B. i, l. 274.

"And Asia now and Afric are explor'd, For high-priced dainties, and citron board."

--_Eng. Poets: ib._, B. i, l. 311.

"Who knows not, how the trembling judge beheld The peaceful court with arm'd legions fill'd?"

--_Eng. Poets; ib._, B. i, l. 578.

"With thee the Scythian wilds we'll wander o'er, With thee burning Libyan sands explore."

--_Eng. Poets: ib._, B. i, l. 661.

"Hasty and headlong different paths they tread, As blind impulse and wild distraction lead."

--_Eng. Poets: ib._, B. i, l. 858.

"But Fate reserv'd to perform its doom, And be the minister of wrath to Rome."

--_Eng. Poets: ib._, B. ii, l. 136.

"Thus spoke the youth. When Cato thus exprest The sacred counsels of his most inmost breast."

--_Eng. Poets: ib._, B. ii, l. 435.

"These were the strict manners of the man, And this the stubborn course in which they ran; The golden mean unchanging to pursue, Constant to keep the proposed end in view."

--_Eng. Poets: ib._, B. ii, l. 580.

"What greater grief can a Roman seize, Than to be forc'd to live on terms like these!"

--_Eng. Poets: ib._, B. ii, l. 782.

"He views the naked town with joyful eyes, While from his rage an arm'd people flies."

--_Eng. Poets: ib._, B. ii, l. 880.

"For planks and beams he ravages the wood, And the tough bottom extends across the flood."

--_Eng. Poets: ib._, B. ii, l. 1040.

"A narrow pa.s.s the horned mole divides, Narrow as that where Euripus' strong tides Beat on Euboean Chalcis' rocky sides."

--_Eng. Poets: ib._, B. ii, l. 1095.

"No force, no fears their hands unarm'd bear, But looks of peace and gentleness they wear."

--_Eng. Poets: ib._, B. iii, l. 112.

"The ready warriors all aboard them ride, And wait the return of the retiring tide."

--_Eng. Poets: ib._, B. iv, l. 716.

"He saw those troops that long had faithful stood, Friends to his cause, and enemies to good, Grown weary of their chief, and satiated with blood."

--_Eng. Poets: ib._, B. v, l. 337.

CHAPTER V.--QUESTIONS.

ORDER OF REHEARSAL, AND METHOD OF EXAMINATION.

PART FOURTH, PROSODY.