Section. 19 (contd.) D. 1. The ladies call him sweet. 2. To their changes half their charms we owe. 4. He knew whose gentle hand was on the latch, | 5. Away with him! he speaks Latin. 6. When we shall have succeeded, then will be our time to rejoice, and freely laugh. 7. The laughter of girls is, and ever was, | among the delightful sounds of the earth. 8. Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law. 9. The living lesson stole into the heart, with more prevailing force (than) dwells in words. 10. Dost thou hear the Nemean lion roar? E. 1. Urge doubts to them | that fear. 2. Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make him afraid? 3. What do you mean by that, Mr. Placid? I insist on your being hungry. 4. Oh, it gives me the hysterics ! 5. More to know did never meddle with my thoughts. 6. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate. 7. A gentle lamb has rhetoric to plead, And when she sees the butcher's knife decreed, Her voice entreats him not to make her bleed. 8. The right honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts. 9. Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. 10. Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts. F. 1. Time but the impression stronger makes, As streams their channels deeper wear. 2. The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity. 3. All seems infected that the infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. 4. The kindly intercourse will ever prove a bond of amity and social love. 5. Is it come to this? 6. It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding. 7. Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me downstairs? 8. I had rather be a kitten and cry mew, Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers. 9. Just notions will into good actions grow. 10. Knowledge dwells in heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. 1 Had rather be = would prefer to be. Section. 20. (COMPLEX SENTENCES.) A. 1. When engineers would bridge a stream, they often carry over at first but a single cord.—Anon. 2. All the sweetest songs, and the grandest and most touching poetry that has ever been on earth breathed into sound or written in characters, have sprung out of work and strife, sorrow and peril.-Anon. 3. What I have known with respect to myself has tended much to lessen both my admiration and my contempt of others. --Dr. Priestley. B. 1. We see how everything was made to love, And how they err, who, in a world like this, Find anything to hate but human pride.-Anon. 2. No customs of society are laudable or safe, which tend in any considerable degree to separate parents from children, and brothers from sisters.- Anon. 3. How happy is he born and taught Who serveth not another's will Whose armour is his honest thought And simple truth his only skill !— Wotten. C. 1. Where'er a noble deed is wrought, To higher levels rise.-Longfellow. 3. Wisdom, justice, love, and peace, Are to us as soft winds be To shepherd-boys-a prophecy.-Shelley. D. 1. Standing on what too long we bore A path to higher destinies.-Longfellow. 2. Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful.-Addison. 3. The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government.- Cowley. Section. 20 (contd.) E. 1. He who, being master of the fittest moment to crush his enemy, magnanimously neglects it, is born to be a conqueror.-Lavater. 2. A good schoolmaster minces his precepts for children to swallow, hanging clogs on the nimbleness of his own soul, that his scholars may go along with him.—Fuller. 3. The generous, who is always just, and the just who is always generous, may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.-Lavater. F. 1. Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye also unto them.-New Testament. 2. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavour to be what you desire to appear.-Socrates. 3. It has been computed by some political arithmetician, that if every man and woman would work for four hours each day on something useful, that labour would produce sufficient to procure all the necessaries and comforts of life.-Franklin. G. 1. Every one must perceive that bad thoughts quickly ripen into bad actions; and that if the latter only are forbidden, and the former left free, all morality will soon be at an end.-Porteus. 2. He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers, and ceases when he has no more to say, is in possession of some of the best requisites of man.Lavater. 3. When I reflect on what I have seen, what I have heard, and what I have done, I can hardly persuade myself that all that frivolous hurry and bustle of pleasure in the world had any reality.-Chesterfield. H. 1. People in general are as much afraid of a live wit, in company, as a woman is of a gun which she thinks may go off of itself, and do her mischief.-Chesterfield. 2. The man whose hardy spirit shall engage To lash the vices of a guilty age, At his first setting forward ought to know That every tongue he meets must be his foe; That the rude breath of satire will provoke Many who feel, and more who fear the stroke.-Churchill. Section. 20 (contd.) I. 1. Yet, still uppermost, Nature was at his heart as if he felt, Though yet he knew not how, a wasting power 2. Of the individual mind that keeps her own J. 1. If such theme 2. May sort with highest objects, then, Dread Power!" Of all illumination, may my life Express the image of a better time.-Wordsworth. The shepherd of that wandering flock, That has the ocean for its wold, That has the vessel for its fold, Leaping ever from rock to rock Spake with accents mild and clear, Words of warning, words of cheer.-Longfellow. That when we stand upon our native soil, Our active powers, those powers themselves become L. 1. What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything, and who, having eyes to see what time and chance are perpetually holding out to him as he journeyeth on his way, misses nothing he can fairly lay his hands on.-Sterne. 2. To buy books, as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor. Pope. Section. 21. (COMPOUND SENTENCES.) A. 1. Quotation, sir, is a good thing; there' is a community of mind in it classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.-Johnson. : 2. Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were the easiest for his feet.-Selden. 3. Art may make a man a suit of clothes, but nature must produce a man.-Hume. B. 1. A man's writing has but one true sense, which is that which the author meant when he wrote it.-Selden. 2. Unaiming charms with edge resistless fall, And she who means no mischief does it all.-A. Hill. 3. We find this great precept often repeated in Plato, Do thine own work, and know thyself. He who will do his own work aright, will find that his first lesson is to know himself; and he who rightly understands himself will never mistake another man's work for his own. -Montaigne. C. 1. I am told so many ill things of a man, and I see so few in him, that I begin to suspect he has a real but troublesome merit, likely to eclipse that of others.-Bruyère. 2. Receive no satisfaction for premeditated impertinence ; forget it, forgive it, but keep him inexorably at a distance who offered it.- Lavater. 3. Ceremony keeps up things: 'tis like a penny glass to a rich spirit, or some excellent water; without it the water were spilt, and the spirit lost.-Selden. D. 1. To know by rote, is no knowledge, and signifies no more than to retain what one has intrusted to his memory. Montaigne. 2. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.-Lord Bacon. 3. It is true indeed that we should not dissemble and flatter in company; but a man may be very agreeable, strictly consistent with truth and sincerity, by a prudent silence, when he cannot concur, and a pleasing assent where he can.-Spectator. E. 1. Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. They are sensitive plants that will not bear too familiar approaches.-Shenstone. 2. I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is 3. Unheedful vows may heedfully be broken; Shakespeare. 1 See "Syntax," Rule 116, p. 142. |