86. The swallow stopt as he hunted the bee, 87. 88. 39. 40. 41. The snake slipt under a spray, The wild hawk stood with the down on his beak, And the nightingale thought, I have sung many songs, 'For he sings of what the world will be Daughter of Jove, relentless power, With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. Orpheus with his lute made trees Bow themselves, when he did sing; To his music plants and flowers We leave the well-beloved place We go, but ere we go from home, If this great world of joy and pain If freedom set will rise again, The heart with each day's care; In such a place as this, at such an hour, 42. Those who reason in this manner do not observe that they are setting up a general rule, of all the least to be endured; namely, that secrecy, whenever secrecy is practicable, will justify any action. 43. To thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, 44. Being angry with one who controverts an opinion which you value, is a necessary consequence of the uneasiness which you feel. 45. 46. 47. 48. This is the state of man; to-day he puts forth Wide through the landscape of his dream Beneath the palm-trees on the plain Once more a king he strode, Descend the mountain road. What stronger breast-plate than a heart untainted? And, as they opened wide the folding-door, His heart failed, for he heard, with strange alarms, 49. But when the sun was sinking in the sea 50. He seized his harp, which he at times could string They heard, and were abashed, and up they sprung, 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. So cheered he his fair spouse, and she was cheer'd; From either eye, and wip'd them with her hair; Hadst thou but shook thy head, or made a pause, Or turn'd an eye of doubt upon my face, As bid me tell my tale in express words; Deep shame had struck me dumb, made me break off, Long time in even scale The battle hung; till Satan, who that day Prodigious power had shown, and met in arms Saw where the sword of Michael smote, and felled Long time they thus together traveiled, Till, weary of their way, they came at last, Where grew two goodly trees, that faire did spred While some on earnest business bent 'Gainst graver hours, that bring constraint Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign And unknown regions dare descry: Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind 56. Though a scholar must have faith in his master, yet a man well instructed must judge for himself; for learners owe to their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they are fully instructed, and not an absolute resignation or perpetual captivity. 57. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, To scorn delights and live laborious days, But the fair guerdon when we hope to find And think to burst out into sudden blaze Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life. 58. Since words are only names for things, it would be more convenient for all men to carry about them such things as are necessary to express the particular business they are to discourse on. 59. Bless'd are those Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled, To sound what stop she please. Give me that man In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, 60. Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings of the Most High; whom although to know be life, and joy to make mention of His name, yet our soundest knowledge is to know that we know Him not as indeed He is, neither can know Him. Abstract nouns, 76 Accent, 51 Accidence, definition of, 66 Adjunct, attributive, 212; adverbial, 215 After, different parts of speech, 64 Alphabet, the English, 55; deficient, re- Alternative conjunctions, syntax of, 254 Anacoluthon, 266 Analysis, directions for, 216 And, redundant use of, 274; colloquially Angles, original home of, 4 Anomaly, in number of nouns, 80 Antecedent to relative, 125; suppressed, 126 Any, 129 Apostrophe in possessive, 98 Apposition, 233; possessive of nouns in, Archaic plural forms, 88 Are, 172 Articles, 107; not a separate part of Articulate sounds, 62 Aryan race, original home of, 24; family As, relative pronoun, 129; adverb, syn- 'As follow' or 'As follows,' 273 Asyndeton, 276 Attraction, 248, 251, 255 Attribute, 104; misuse of term, 251 Augmentatives, 202 Auxiliary verbs, 138, 171 Aye, sound of diphthong in, 46 |