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Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease,
Seats of my youth when every sport could please;
How often have I loitered o'er thy green,

Where humble happiness endeared each scene!
How often have I paused on every charm,

The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm,
The never-failing brook, the busy mill,

The decent church that topped the neighboring hill.

[Remark 4.] All our ecstacies are wounds to peace,

Peace, the full portion of mankind below.-Young.

RULE VIII.

It is related of the great Dr. Clarke that when in one of his leisure hours he was unbending himself with a few friends in the most playful and frolicsome manner he observed Beau Nash approaching. He suddenly stopped: "My boys," said he, "let us be grave; here comes a fool."-Boswell.

We have no minute information respecting those years of Johnson's life
during which his character and his manners became immutably fixed.- Lord
Macaulay.
Ere long⭑

Thick darkness descended the mountains among;5
And a vivid, vindictive, and serpentine flash
Gored the darkness and shore it across with a gash.
The rain fell in large heavy drops. And anon

Broke the thunder. The horses took fright, every one.

The Duke's in a moment was far out of sight.

The guides whooped. The band was obliged to alight,"
And, dispersed up the perilous pathway, walked blind

To the darkness before from the darkness behind.-Lord Lytton.

RULE IX.

Thou hast belied mine innocent child;

Thy slander hath gone through and through her heart,
And she lies buried with her ancestors.-Shakespeare.

And the storm is abroad in the mountains! He fills
The crouched hollows and all the oracular hills
With dread voices of power. A roused million or more
Of wild echoes reluctantly rise from their hoar
Immemorial ambush and roll in the wake

Of the cloud, whose reflection leaves vivid the lake.
And the wind, that wild robber, for plunder descends
From invisible lands, o'er those black mountain-ends;
He howls as he hounds down his prey; and his lash
Tears the hair of the timorous wan mountain-ash,

1 See p. 150, third paragraph.

2 Participle belonging to information.

3 Participle belonging to which, which during, nominative absolute.

4 See note, p. 134, Rem. 15, and note. The expression, however, might come under Rem. 14 (ere a long time). Shakespeare uses long as an adjective belonging to it, meaning time: "They will then ere 't be long."

5 See p. 121, third paragraph.

6 The adverb far modifies the adverb out, and out is modified by the adjunct 7 See p. 223, second paragraph.

of sight.

Which clings to the rocks, with her garments all torn,
Like a woman 2 in fear; then he blows his hoarse horn
And is off, the fierce guide of destruction and terror,

Up the desolate heights, 'mid an intricate error

Of mountain and mist.-Lord Lytton.

[Remark 10.] Our own heart, and not other men's opinions, forms our true honor.-Coleridge.

Virtue, not rolling suns, the mind matures.-Young.

RULE X.

Close on the hounds the hunter came
To cheer them on the vanished game;
But, stumbling in the rugged dell,
The gallant horse exhausted fell.

The impatient rider strove in vain

To rouse him with the spur and rein,

For the good steed, his labors o'er,

Stretched his stiff limbs to rise 3 no more.-Scott.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.-Bacon.

'Tis these that early taint the female soul,
Instruct the eyes of young coquettes to roll,
Teach infant cheeks a bidden blush to know,
And little hearts to flutter at a beau.-Pope.
Meanwhile

The sun in his setting sent up the last smile
Of his power, to baffle the storm. And behold!
O'er the mountains embattled, his armies, all gold,
Rose and rested; while far up the dim airy crags,

Its artillery silenced, its banners in rags,"

The rear of the tempest its sullen retreat

Drew off slowly, receding in silence, to meet

The powers of the night, which, now gathering afar,

Had already sent forward one bright signal star.-Lord Lytton.

RULE XI.

She walks in beauty like the night?

Of cloudless climes and starry skies;

And all that's best of dark and bright8
Meets in her aspect and her eyes:

Thus mellowed to that tender light

Which heaven to gaudy day denies.-Byron.

Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets.-English Bible.

1 See p. 196, Rem. 5. 2 See p. 228, Rem. 2. 3 Adjunct infinitive, 7. Denotes result. 4 See Rule V, Rem. 12. The verb teach has two objectives, the infinitive here being employed as one of the objectives. The verb instruct is used in the sense of teach. 5 See p. 133, Rem. 5. 6 Rule II, Rem. 1. 8 Rule VIII, Rem. 5.

' Rule VI, Rem. 11.

She had just as good a right to live, if she chose, in St. Martin's Street as Queen Charlotte had to live at St. James's.-Macaulay.

An old lord of the council rated me the other day in the street about you, sir; but I marked him not: and yet he talked very wisely; but I regarded him not: and yet he talked wisely, and in the street too. Thou didst well, for wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards it.—Shakespeare.

Arise and go into the street which is called Straight.-English Bible.

RULE XII.

Our birth is but1 a sleep and a forgetting;

The soul that rises with us, our life's star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,

And cometh from afar; 2
Not in entire forgetfulness,

And not in utter nakedness,

But trailing clouds of glory do we come

From God, who is our home.- Wordsworth.

[Remark 3.] Munster, Ulster, and Connaught were ruled by petty sovereigns, partly Celts and partly degenerate Normans.-Macaulay.

RULE XIII.

"Courage!" he said, and pointed toward the land,
"This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon."
In the afternoon they came unto a land

In which it seemed always afternoon;

All round the coast the languid air did swoon,
Breathing like one that hath a weary dream.
Full-faced above the valley stood the moon;

And, like a downward smoke, the slender stream

Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem.-Tennyson.

I replied that I had never been at sea, but that I was going.—Marryat.

RULE XIV.

O blessed hope, sole boon of man, whereby on his strait prison-walls are painted beautiful, far-stretching landscapes.-Carlyle.

1 Is [naught] but a sleep.

Rule XII, Rem. 6.

2 See page 134, Rem. 15.

But I replied] that.

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