(The subject is you understood.)
4. How wonderful is the advent of spring! 5. Oh! a dainty plant is the ivy green! 6. Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work. 7. Alexander the Great died at Babylon in the thirty-third year of his age. 8. How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! 9. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. 10. Lend me your ears. 11. What brilliant rings the planet Saturn has! 12. What power shall blanch the sullied snow of character? 13. The laws of nature are the thoughts of God. 14. How beautiful was the snow, falling all day long, all night long, on the roofs of the living, on the graves of the dead! 15. Who, in the darkest days of our Revolution, carried your flag into the very chops of the British Channel, bearded the lion in his den, and woke the echoes of old Albion's hills by the thunders of his cannon and the shouts of his triumph?
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LESSON 47.
MISCELLANEOUS EXERCISES IN REVIEW
Analysis.
1. Poetry is only the eloquence and enthusiasm of religion.—Wordsworth.
2. Refusing to bare his head to any earthly potentate, Richelieu would
permit no eminent author to stand bareheaded in his presence.
—Stephen.
3. The Queen of England is simply a piece of historic heraldry; a flag,
floating grandly over a Liberal ministry yesterday, over a Tory ministry
to-day.—Conway.
4. The vulgar intellectual palate hankers after the titillation of foaming
phrase.—Lowell.
5. Two mighty vortices, Pericles and Alexander the Great, drew into strong
eddies about themselves all the glory and the pomp of Greek literature,
Greek eloquence, Greek wisdom, Greek art.—De Quincey.
6. Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, lie in three words—
health, peace, and competence.—Pope.
7. Extreme admiration puts out the critic's eye.—Tyler. [Footnote:
Weighty thoughts tersely expressed, like (7), (8), and (10) in this
Lesson, are called Epigrams. What quality do you think they impart to
one's style?]
8. The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun.—
Longfellow.
9. Things mean, the Thistle, the Leek, the Broom of the Plantagenets,
become noble by association.—F. W. Robertson.
10. Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the night.—
Beecher.
11. In that calm Syrian afternoon, memory, a pensive Ruth, went gleaning
the silent fields of childhood, and found the scattered grain still
golden, and the morning sunlight fresh and fair.—Curtis. [Footnote:
In Ruth of this sentence, we have a type of the metaphor called
+Personification+—a figure in which things are raised above their
proper plane, taken up toward or to that of persons. Things take on
dignity and importance as they rise in the scale of being.
Note, moreover, that in this instance of the figure we have an
+Allusion+. All the interest that the Ruth of the Bible awakens in us
this allusion gathers about so common a thing as memory.]
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