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Rage like an angry beár?

Have I not heard great ordnance in the
field?

And heaven's artillery thunder in the ský?
Have I not, in a pitched battle, heard

Loud 'larums, neighing steeds, and trum-
pets' cláng?

And do you tell me of a woman's tongue?

EXERCISE 13.

The Suspensive and Conclusive Accents transposed, because the earlier member requires the force of Conclusive Emphasis.

1. The most powerful monarch cannot rely upon enjoying his present greatness for ever, fixed and unchangeable.

2. It is ungènerous to give a man occasion to blush at his own ignorance in one thing, who perhaps may excel us in mány.

3. Man, in his highest earthly glory, is but a reed floating on the stream of time, and forced to follow every new direction of the current.

4. The principal sources of activity are taken away, when they for whom we labour are cut off from us, they who animated and they who sweetened all the toils of life.

5. Reason, eloquence, and every art that has ever been studied among mankind, may be abused, and may prove dangerous in the hands of bad mén; but it were perfectly childish to

contend that, upon this account, they ought to be abolished.

6. Our solicitude cannot alter the course, or unravel the intricacy of human events. Our curiosity cannot pierce through the cloud which the Supreme Being has made impenetrable to mórtal eye.

7. The music of a bird in captivity produces nò very pleasing sensations; it is but the mirth of a little animal insensible of its unfortunate situálion; it is the landscape, the grove, the golden break of day, the contest upon the hdwthorn, the fluttering from branch to branch, the soaring in the air, and the answering to its young, that give the bird's song its trúe relish. 8. Be thou the first, true merit to befriend;

His praise is lost who stays till áll commend. 9. There is some soul of goodness in things èvil,

Would men observingly distil it oút.

10. No bandit fierce, no tyrant mad with pride, No caverned hèrmit, rests sélf satisfied. 11. Pray, make no such fúss in granting your boon;

He doubles his gift, who grants it me soon. 12. All men think all men mortal but them

selves;

Themselves, when some alarming shock of fate

Strikes through their wounded hearts the sudden dreád.

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Or sink or swim:

Send Danger from the east unto the west,
So Honour cross it from the north to south,
And let them grapple. Oh! the blood
mòre stirs

To rouse a lion than to start a háre.
14. Not to this earth's contracted span
Thy goodness let me bound;
Or think thee Lord alone of man
When thousand worlds are round.

EXERCISE 14.

Emphatic accents introducing words or clauses of a foreknown or implied meaning.

1. There is a mean in all things. Even virtue itself has its stated limits, which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be virtue.

2. In the opinion of the world, the road to wealth is the only road to happiness. And if peace of mind and health of body were as easily purchased as a coach or a dainty repast, then undoubtedly wealth would be the road to happiness.

3. If we allow that whatever promotes and strengthens virtue, whatever calms and regulates the temper is a source of happiness, then devòtion is a source of happiness; for devotion promotes and strengthens virtue, devotion calms and regulates the temper.

4. Honourable age is not that which standeth in length or time, or that is measured by number of years; but wisdom is the gray hair unto man, and unspotted life is old age.

5. Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth, where the rust and moth doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither rust nor moth doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal.

6. How can it enter into the thoughts of man that the soul, which is capable of such immense perfections, shall fall away into nothing almost as soon as it is created? A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass; in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of, and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing that he is at present. Were a húman soul thus at a stand in her accomplishments, were her faculties to be full blown and incapable of further enlargement, I could imagine she might drop at once into a state of annihilation.

7. There were two men in one city, the one rich, and the other poor. The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds: but the poor man had nothing save one little ewe lamb which he had nourished and brought up; and it grew up together with him and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and was unto him as a daughter. And

there came a traveller to the rich man; and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him, but took the poor man's lámb and dressed it for the man that was come unto him.

8. No longer now that golden age appears When patriarch wit survived a thousand years;

Now length of fame, our second life, is lost,
And bare three score is all even that can

boast.

9. All that's worth a wish, a thought, Fair virtue gives unbribed, unbought. Cease then on trásh thy hopes to bind; Let nòbler views engage thy mind.

10. Nor fame I slight, nor for her favours call; She comes unlook'd for, if she comes at all.

11.

But if the purchase costs so dear a price
As soothing folly or exalting vice,
Then teach me, Heaven, to scòrn the
guilty bays.

-When lightning fires
The arch of heaven, and thunders rock the
ground,

When furious whirlwinds rend the howling
air,

And ocean, groaning from his lowest bed,
Heaves his tempestuous billows to the sky;
Amid the mighty uproar, while below

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