What then? what rests?
Try what —— can: what can it not?
Forgive me, Valentine, if hearty ——
Be a sufficient ransom for offense,
I tender't here.
So writhes the mind —— has riven,
Unmeet for earth, undoomed to heaven,
Darkness above, despair beneath,
Around it flame, within it death.
REPROOF ([page 311]).
QUESTIONS.
1. Are blame, censure, and disapproval spoken or silent? 2. Are comment, criticism, rebuke, reflection, reprehension, and reproof expressed or not? 3. How of admonition and animadversion? 4. Are comment and criticism favorable or unfavorable? Do they imply superiority on the part of commentator or critic? 5. Do reflection and reprehension imply such superiority? How are these two words discriminated? 6. What does rebuke literally signify? To what kind of person is a rebuke administered? 7. To what kind of person is reproof administered? 8. What do rebuke and reproof imply on the part of him who administers them? 9. What is animadversion? admonition?
EXAMPLES.
A —— is intolerable when it is administered out of pride or hatred.
The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful —— of a friend.