Sanders' Union Fourth Reader Part 6

o-ver-throw', _to throw down_.

NOTE III.--Emphatic words are often printed in _Italics_. When, however, different degrees of emphasis are to be denoted, the higher degrees are designated by the use of Capitals, LARGER or SMALLER, according to the degree of intensity.

EXAMPLES.

1. Our motto shall be, _our country_, OUR WHOLE COUNTRY, and NOTHING BUT OUR COUNTRY.

2. _Thou Child of Joy!_ SHOUT round me: let me HEAR _thy shouts, thou happy Shepherd Boy!_

3. Freedom calls you! _quick_, be ready, Think of what your sires have done; _Onward_, ONWARD! strong and steady, Drive the tyrant to his den; ON, and let the watchword be, _Country_, HOME, and LIBERTY.

NOTE IV.--Emphasis, as before intimated, varies in degrees of intensity.

EXAMPLES OF INTENSIVE EMPHASIS.

1. He shook the fragment of his blade, And shouted: "VICTORY!

_Charge_, Chester, CHARGE! _On_, Stanley, ON!"

2. A _month!_ O, for a single WEEK! I as not for _years'_, though an AGE were _too little_ for the _much_ I have to do.

3. _Now_ for the FIGHT! _now_ for the CANNON PEAL! ONWARD! through _blood_, and _toil_, and _cloud_, and _fire!_ _Glorious_--the SHOUT, the SHOCK, the CRASH of STEEL, The VOLLEY'S ROLL, the ROCKET'S BLAZING SPIRE!

4. Hear, O HEAVENS! and give ear, O EARTH!

NOTE V.--Emphasis sometimes changes the seat of accent from its ordinary position.

EXAMPLES.

There is a difference between _pos'_sibility and _prob'_ability. And behold, the angels of G.o.d _as'_cending and _de'_scending on it. For this corruptible must put on _in'_corruption, and this mortal must put on _im'_mortality. Does his conduct deserve _ap'_probation or _rep'_robation?

NOTE VI.--There are two kinds of Emphasis:--_Absolute_ and _Ant.i.thetic_.

ABSOLUTE EMPHASIS is used to designate the important words of a sentence, without any direct reference to other words.

EXAMPLES OF ABSOLUTE EMPHASIS.

1. Oh, speak to pa.s.sion's raging tide, _Speak_ and _say_: "PEACE, BE STILL!"

2. The UNION, it MUST and SHALL BE PRESERVED!

3. HUSH! _breathe it not aloud_, _The wild winds must not hear it! Yet, again_, _I tell thee_--WE ARE FREE!

KNOWLES.

4. When my country shall take her place among the nations of the earth, THEN and not TILL then, let my epitaph be written.

EMMETT.

5. If you are MEN, _follow_ ME! STRIKE DOWN _yon guard, and gain the mountain pa.s.ses._

6. OH! _shame on us_, countrymen, SHAME _on us_ ALL, If we CRINGE to so dastard a race.

7. This doctrine _never was received_; it NEVER CAN, _by any_ POSSIBILITY, BE RECEIVED; and, if admitted at ALL, it _must be by_ THE TOTAL SUBVERSION OF LIBERTY!

8. Are you _Christians_, and, by upholding duelists, will you _deluge the land with blood_, and _fill it with widows and orphans._ BEECHER.

9. LIBERTY _and_ UNION, NOW _and_ FOREVER, ONE _and_ INSEPARABLE.

WEBSTER.

10. _Treason!_ cried the speaker; _treason_, TREASON, TREASON, reechoed from every part of the house.

11. _The war is inevitable_,--and LET IT COME! I repeat it, Sir,--LET IT COME!

PATRICK HENRY.

12. Be we _men_, And suffer such dishonor? MEN, and wash not The stain away in BLOOD?

MISS MITFORD.

13. O SACRED FORMS! how _proud_ you look!

How _high_ you lift your heads into the sky!

How _huge_ you are! how _mighty_ and how _free_!

KNOWLES.

14. I shall know but _one_ country. The ends _I_ aim at, shall be "My COUNTRY'S, my G.o.d'S, and TRUTH'S."

WEBSTER.

NOTE VII.--ANt.i.tHETIC EMPHASIS is that which is founded on the contrast of one word or clause with another.

EXAMPLES OF ANt.i.tHETIC EMPHASIS.

1. The faults of _others_ should always remind us of our _own_.

2. He desired to _protect_ his friend, not to _injure_ him.

3. But _yesterday_, the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world; _now_ lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence.

SHAKESPEARE.

4. A _good name_ is rather to be chosen than _great riches_.

BIBLE.

5. We can do nothing _against_ the truth; but _for_ the truth.

BIBLE.

6. He that is _slow to anger_, is better than the _mighty_; and he that _ruleth his spirit_, than he that _taketh a city_.

BIBLE.

NOTE VIII.--The following examples contain two or more sets of Ant.i.theses.

1. _Just men_ are only _free_, the _rest_ are _slaves_.

2. _Beauty_ is like the _flower of spring; virtue_ is like the _stars of heaven_.

3. _Truth_ crushed to earth shall _rise_ again, The eternal years of G.o.d are hers; But _error_, wounded, _writhes_ in pain, And _dies_ amid her worshipers.