"Thou bringest, gay creature as thou art,
A solemn image to my heart."
—E. J. Hallock's Gram., p. 197.
"Know thyself presume not God to scan;
The proper study of mankind is Man."
—O. B. Peirce's Gram., p. 285.
"Raised on a hundred pilasters of gold."
—Charlemagne, C. i, St. 40.
"Love in Adalgise's breast has fixed his sting."
—Ib., C. i, St. 30.
"Thirty days hath September,
April, June, and November,
February twenty-eight alone,
All the rest thirty and one."
Colet's Grammar, or Paul's Accidence. Lond., 1793, p. 75.
LESSON II.—RESTORE THE RHYTHM.
"'Twas not the fame of what he once had been,
Or tales in old records and annals seen."
—Rowe's Lucan, B. i, l. 274.
"And Asia now and Afric are explor'd,
For high-priced dainties, and citron board."
—Eng. Poets: ib., B. i, l. 311.
"Who knows not, how the trembling judge beheld
The peaceful court with arm'd legions fill'd?"
—Eng. Poets; ib., B. i, l. 578.
"With thee the Scythian wilds we'll wander o'er,
With thee burning Libyan sands explore."
—Eng. Poets: ib., B. i, l. 661.