Earnest intreaty, appeal, remonstrance, expostulation:
1. O God of battles! steel my soldiers' heàrts!
-Not to-dày.

Oh! not to-dày,-think not upon the fault
My father made in compassing the crown!

2. Arm, àrm, you heavens! against these perjur'd kings!

A widow cries, be husband to me, hèavens!
Let not the hours of this ungodly day

Wear out the day in peàce; but ere sunset,

. Set armed discord, 'twixt these perjur'd kings! Hear me, oh! heàr me!

3. Question your royal thoughts, make the case

yours;

Be now the father, and propose a son;

Hear your own dignity so much profan'd;
See your most dreadful laws so loosely slighted;
Behold yourself so by a son disdain'd;
And then imagine me taking your part,
And in your power so silencing your son.

Exhortation, invitation, temperate command:

1. Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once mòre;

2.

Or close the wall up with our English dead.

-Stoop, Romans, stoop,
And let us bathe our hands in Cæsar's blood;
Then walk ye forth, even to the market-place;
And, waving our red weapons o'er our heads,
Let's all cry peace! freedom! and liberty!

3. Come forth, O ye children of gladness, come!
Where the violets lie may be now your home.
Ye of the rose lip, and the dew-bright eye,
And the bounding footstep, to meet me fly!
With the lyre, and the wreath, and the joyous lay,
Come forth to the sunshine,-I may not stay.

4. Come away, servant, come: I am ready now;
Approach, my Ariel; come!

5. Go, make thyself like to a nymph o' the sea;
Be subject to no eye but mine; invisible

To every eye-ball else. Go, take this shape,
And hither come in 't: hence, with diligence!

Admiration and adoration:

1. The stars are forth,-the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains. Beautiful! 2. These are thy glorious works, Parent of Good, Almighty! Thine this universal frame,

Thus wondrous fair! Thyself how wondrous
then!

Unspeakable! who sitt'st above these heavens,
To us invisible, or dimly seen
Midst these thy lowest works!

3. Thou glorious mirror! where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests.

4. And I have lov'd thee, Ocean! and my joy

Of youthful sports, was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward;-from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers, they to me Were a delight.

5. And this is in the night! Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber! let me be

A sharer in thy fierce and far delight,

A portion of the tempest and of thee!

How the lit lake shines!-a phosphoric sea;-
And the big rain comes dancing to the earth!

6. What a piece of work is man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! in form and moving, how express and admirable! In action, how like an angel! in apprehension, how like a god!

7. The voice of the Lord is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the Lord is upon many waters. The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty. The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedars; yea, the Lord breaketh the

cedars of Lebanon. The voice of the Lord shaketh the wilderness; the Lord shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh.

EXERCISES ON RULE II.

See Table of Contrasted Inflections.

EXERCISES ON RULE III.

See Rule III.

EXERCISES ON RULE IV.

Complete thought in sentences:

1. The flowers strewed on the grave of merit, are the best incense to living worth.

2. A cheerful mind is not only disposed to be affable and obliging, but raises the same good humour in those who come within its influence.

3. It is one great advantage of classical studies, that, in acquiring the languages of Greece and Rome, we insensibly contract an acquaintance with some of the most illustrious characters of antiquity, and are partially admitted into their venerable society.

Complete thought in clauses:

1. Let your companions be sèlect; let them be such as you can love for their good qualities, and whose virtues you are desirous to emulate.

2. I observed that those who had but just begun to climb the hill, thought themselves not far from the top; but, as they proceeded, new hills were continually rising to their view; and the summit of the highest they could before discern, seemed but the foot of another till the mountain, at length, appeared to lose itself in the clouds.

3. This sun, with all its attendant planets, is but a very little part of the grand machine of the universe; every star, though no bigger in appearance than the

diamond that glitters on a lady's ring, is really a vast globe, like the sun in size and in glory; no less spacious, no less luminous, than the radiant source of the day so that every star is not barely a world, but the centre of a magnificent system; has a retinue of worlds irradiated by its beams, and revolving round its attractive influence, all which are lost to our sight in unmeasurable wilds of ether.

Exceptions in poetry.

1. The fisher is out on the sunny séa;

And the reindeer bounds o'er the pasture frée;
And the pine has a fringe of softer gréen,

And the moss looks bright, where my foot hath
been.

2. From the streams and founts I have loos'd the chain;

They are sweeping on to the silvery máin,

They are flashing down from the mountain brows,
They are flinging spray o'er the forest boughs,
They are bursting fresh from their sparry caves;
And the earth resounds with the joy of waves!

Concluding series:

1. The spirit of true religion breathes géntleness and affability.

2. Industry is the law of our being: it is the demand of nature, of réason, and of God.

3. You have a friend continually at hand, to pìty, to support, to defénd, and to reliève you.

4. The characteristics of chivalry, were valour, humanity, courtesy, justice, and honour.

5. Mankind are besieged by war, famine, pestilence, volcano, storm, and fire.

6. A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends resolutely, and continues a friend unchangeably.

7. True gentleness teaches us to bear one another's burdens, to rejoice with those who rejoice, to weep with those who weep, to please every one his neighbour for his good, to be kind and tender-hearted, to be pitiful and courteous, to support the weak, and to be patient towards all men.

Exceptions, in poetry, to the prevalence of the fall-
ing inflection:

1. In the hues of its grandeur sublimely it stood
O'er the rivér, the village, the field, and the wood.
-About me round I saw,
Hill, dále, and shady woods, and sunny plains,
And liquid lapse of murmuring streams.

2.

3. Their glittering tents he pass'd, and now is come
Into the blissful field, through groves of myrrh,
And flowering odours, cassia, nard, and balm;
A wilderness of sweets.

4.

-Sudden mind arose
In Adam not to let the occasion pass

Given him by this great conference, to know
Of things above this world, and of their being
Who dwell in heaven, whose excellence he saw
Transcend his own so far; whose radiant forms,
Divine effulgence; whose high power so far
Exceeded human.

The answer to a question:

1. Hamlet. Hold you the watch to-night?
All. We dò, my lord.
Ham. Arm'd, say you?
All. Àrm'd, my lord.

Ham. From top to toe?

All. My lord, from head to foot.

Ham. And fix'd his eyes upon you?

Hor. Most constantly.

Ham. Staid it long?

Hor. While one, with moderate haste, might

tell a hundred.

*Horatio, Bernardo, and Marcellus.