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--CATO: _Enfield_, p. 321.
"Slow rises _worth_ by poverty depressed."
--_Wells's Gram., Late Ed._, p. 211.
"Rapt _into_ future times, the bard begun."
--POPE.--_Ib._, p. 165.
"Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow? _Whereto_ serves mercy But to confront the visage of offence?"
--_Shak., Hamlet_.
"Look! in this place ran _Ca.s.sius_' dagger through."
--_Id., J. Caesar_.
"_And_ when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw."
--_Milton, Lycidas_.
"Did not great Julius bleed for _justice'_ sake?"
--_Dodd and Shak. cor._
"May I _express thee' unblam'd? since_ G.o.d is light"
--_Milton_, B. iii, l. 3.
"Or _hear'st_ thou rather pure ethereal stream?"
--_Id._, B. iii, l. 7.
"Republics, kingdoms, empires, may decay; _Great_ princes, heroes, sages, sink to nought."
--_Peirce or La-Rue cor._
"Thou _bringst_, gay creature as thou art, A solemn image to my heart."
--_Hallock cor._
"Know _then_ thyself, presume not G.o.d to scan; The proper study of mankind is Man."
--_Pope, on Man_, Ep. ii, l. 1.
"Raised on _pilasters high_ of _burnished_ gold."
--_Dr. S. Butler cor._
"Love in _Adalgise_' breast has fixed his sting."
--_Id._
"Thirty days _each have_ September, April, June, and _old_ November; _Each_ of the rest _has_ thirty-one, Bating February alone, Which has twenty-eight in fine, Till leap-year gives it twenty-nine."
--_Dean Colet cor._
LESSON II.--RHYTHM RESTORED.
"'Twas not the fame of what he once had been, Or tales in _records old_ and annals seen."
--_Rowe cor._
"And Asia now and Afric are explored For high-priced dainties and _the_ citron board."
--_Rowe cor._
"Who knows not how the trembling judge beheld The peaceful court with _arm~ed_ legions fill'd?"
--_Rowe cor._
"With thee the Scythian wilds we'll wander o'er, With thee _the_ burning Libyan sands explore."
--_Rowe cor._
"Hasty and headlong, different paths they tread, As _impulse blind_ and wild distraction lead."
--_Rowe cor._
"But Fate reserv'd _him_ to perform its doom, And be the minister of wrath to Rome."
--_Rowe cor._
"Thus spoke the youth. When Cato thus _express'd_ The sacred counsels of his inmost breast."
--_Rowe cor._
"These were the _rigid_ manners of the man, This _was_ the stubborn course in which they ran; The golden mean unchanging to pursue, Constant to keep the _purpos'd_ end in view."
--_Rowe cor._
"What greater grief can _on_ a Roman seize, Than to be forced to live on terms like these!"
--_Rowe cor._
"He views the naked town with joyful eyes, While from his rage an _arm~ed_ people flies."
--_Rowe cor._
"For planks and beams, he ravages the wood, And the tough _oak_ extends across the flood."
--_Rowe cor._
"A narrow pa.s.s the horn~ed mole divides.
Narrow as that where _strong Euripus_' tides Beat on Euboean Chalcis' rocky sides."
--_Rowe cor._
"No force, no fears their hands _unarm~ed_ bear,"--or, "No force, no fears their hands unarm'd _now_ bear, But looks of peace and gentleness they wear."
--_Rowe cor._
"The ready warriors all aboard them ride, And wait return of the retiring tide."
--_Rowe cor._
"He saw those troops that long had faithful stood, Friends to his cause, and enemies to good, Grown weary of their chief, and _satiate_ with blood."
--_Rowe cor._
END OF THE KEY.
APPENDIX I. TO PART FIRST, OR ORTHOGRAPHY. OF THE SOUNDS OF THE LETTERS.
