The swallow stopt as he hunted the bee, The snake slipt under a spray, The wild hawk stood with the down on his beak, And the nightingale thought, 'I have sung many songs, 'For he sings of what the world will be Daughter of Jove, relentless power, With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. Orpheus with his lute made trees We leave the well-beloved place We go, but ere we go from home, If this great world of joy and pain If freedom set will rise again, And virtue flown come back; In such a place as this, at such an hour, 42. Those who reason in this manner do not observe that they are setting up a general rule, of all the least to be endured; namely, that secrecy, whenever secrecy is practicable, will justify any action. To thine own self be true, 43. And it must follow, as the night the day, 44. Being angry with one who controverts an opinion which you value, is a necessary consequence of the uneasiness which you feel. 45. 46. 47. This is the state of man; to-day he puts forth Wide through the landscape of his dream Beneath the palm-trees on the plain Once more a king he strode, And heard the tinkling caravans What stronger breast-plate than a heart untainted? 48. Deaf to King Robert's threats and cries and prayers, 49. 50. And, as they opened wide the folding-door, His heart failed, for he heard, with strange alarms, With the mock plaudits of 'Long live the king.' But when the sun was sinking in the sea He seized his harp, which he at times could string When deem'd he no strange ear was listening: They heard, and were abashed, and up they sprung, So cheered he his fair spouse, and she was cheer'd; From either eye, and wip'd them with her hair; Hadst thou but shook thy head, or made a pause, Or turn'd an eye of doubt upon my face, As bid me tell my tale in express words; Deep shame had struck me dumb, made me break off, Long time in even scale The battle hung; till Satan, who that day Prodigious power had shown, and met in arms Saw where the sword of Michael smote, and felled Long time they thus together traveiled, Till, weary of their way, they came at last, Where grew two goodly trees, that faire did spred While some on earnest business bent 'Gainst graver hours, that bring constraint Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign And unknown regions dare descry: Still as they run they look behind, 56. Though a scholar must have faith in his master, yet a man well instructed must judge for himself; for learners owe to their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they are fully instructed, and not an absolute resignation or perpetual captivity. 57. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, To scorn delights and live laborious days, But the fair guerdon when we hope to find And think to burst out into sudden blaze Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life. 58. Since words are only names for things, it would be more convenient for all men to carry about them such things as are necessary to express the particular business they are to discourse on. 59. Bless'd are those Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled, To sound what stop she please. Give me that man 60. Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings of the Most High; whom although to know be life, and joy to make mention of His name, yet our soundest knowledge is to know that we know Him not as indeed He is, neither can know Him. Accent, 50 Accidence, definition of, 65 Adjectives, definition of, 100; compared Adjunct, attributive, 200; adverbial, 203 of, 172; formation of, 173; used as Adverbial adjuncts, 203; clauses, 185; After, different parts of speech, 63 Alphabet, the English, 54; deficient, re- Alternative conjunctions, syntax of, 241 Anacoluthon, 253 Analysis, directions for, 204 Angles, original home of, 4 Anglo-Saxon, meaning of, 5 Anomaly, in number of nouns, 87 Antecedent to relative, 121; suppressed, 122 Any, 125 Apostrophe in possessive, 95 Apposition, 220; possessive of nouns in, Archaic plural forms, 86 Are, 165 Arrangement, see Order Articles, 104; not a separate part of Articulate sounds, 61 Aryan race, original home of, 23; family 26 As, relative pronoun, 125; adverb, syn- 'As follow or 'As follows,' 258 Asyndeton, 261 Attraction, 235, 238, 242 Attribute, meaning of, 101; misuse of Attributive adjunct, see Adjunct; use of Aught, 125. Augmentatives, 192 Aye, sound of diphthong in, 46 |