At once, by death, death's lingering power to

brave;

He will not sink, but plunge into the grave,
Exhaust his mighty soul in one last sigh,
And rally life's whole energy-to die.

13 Unfeared is now that cord, which oft en-
snared

The baffled rival whom his falchion spared; Those clarions mute, which, on the murderous stage,

Roused him to deeds of more than martial rage. Once poised by peerless might, once dear to fame, The shield which could not guard, supports his frame;

"His fixed eye dwells upon his faithless blade, As if in silent agony he prayed,

15 Oh! might I yet by one avenging blow Not shun my fate, but share it with my foe!"

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Vain hope! the streams of life-blood fast.de

scend;

"That giant arm's upbearing strength 18 must bend,

19 Yet shall he scorn, procumbent, to betray One dastard sign of anguish or dismay,

With one weak plaint to shame his parting breath, "In pangs sublime, magnificent in death.

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21 But his were deeds unchronicled ;-his tomb No patriot wreaths adorn ;-to cheer his doom No soothing thoughts arise of duty done, Of trophied conquests for his country won;

And he whose sculptured form gave deathless

fame

To Ctesilas, he dies without a name.

Haply, to grace some Cæsar's pageant pride, The hero slave or hireling champion died, When Rome," degenerate Rome, for barbarous shows,

Bartered her virtue, glory, and repose,
Sold all that freemen prize as great and good,
pomps of death, and theatres of blood.
CHINNERY. Oxford Prize Poem..

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48. Lord Chief Justice Gascoigne's Defence before Henry V., on being reminded by the King, that, when Prince of Wales, the Judge had sent him to Prison.

ARGUMENTATIVE MANNER:

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1 Pride and Dignity, Indignation, Determination, Frankness, rising again into the expression of Dignity, and Indignation; relaxes into the meeker expression of 'Frankness; rises once more into the expression of Dignity, relaxes a third time into "Frankness, rises again into 1o Dignity and Firmness.

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1I then did use the person of your father,
The image of his power lay then in me;
And in the administration of his law,
While I was busy for the commonwealth,
Your highness pleased to forget my place,
The majesty and power of law and justice,
The image of the king whom I presented,

2 And struck me in my very seat of judgment;-
Whereon, as an offender to your father,
'I gave bold way to my authority,

And did commit you. If the deed were ill,
Be you contented, wearing now the garland,
To have a son set your decrees at naught,
5 To pluck down justice from your awful bench,
To trip the course of law, and blunt the sword
That guards the peace and safety of your per-

son,

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Nay more, to spurn at your most royal image And mock your working in a second body. 'Question your royal thoughts; make the case yours;

Be now the father and propose a son;

8 Hear your own dignity so much profaned;
See your most dreadful laws so loosely slighted;
Behold yourself so by a son disdained;

" And then imagine me taking your part,
And in your power so silencing your son.
10 After this cold considerance, sentence me;
And, as you are a king, speak in your state,
What I have done that misbecame my place,
My person, or my liege's sovereignty.

SHAKSPEARE.

49. The Miseries of the Poor and Luxury of the Rich.

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PLAINTIVE EXPRESSION:

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'Grief and Indignation, Indignation predominates, Grief predominates, Indignation, Grief, with solemnity of expression, *Indignation, Slightly Sarcastic manner, Grief with Solemnity, 'Grief, giving way to a momentary expression of 10 Delight, "Grief, and slightly imitative expression in uttering the line "pinched with cold and shrinking from the shower."

1 Where then, ah! where shall poverty reside,
To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride?
If to some common's fenceless limits strayed
He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade,
2 Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide,
And e'en the bare-worn common is denied.
If to the city sped, what waits him there?
To see profusion which he must not share;
To see ten thousand baneful arts combined
To pamper luxury and thin mankind;

To see each joy the sons of pleasure know
Extorted from his fellow-creature's wo.
Here, while the courtier glitters in brocade,

3 There, the pale artist plies the sickly trade;

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* Here, while the proud their long drawn pomps

display,

"There, the black gibbet glooms beside the

way.

"The dome were Pleasure holds her midnight reign,

Here, richly decked, admits the gorgeous train;
Tumultuous grandeur crowds the blazing square,
The rattling chariots clash, the torches glare.
"Sure scenes like these no troubles e'er annoy !
Sure these denote one universal joy!

* Are these thy serious thoughts? 9 Ah turn thine

eyes

Where the poor houseless shivering female lies: She once, perhaps, in village plenty blessed, Has wept at tales of innocence distressed: 10 Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn: "Now lost to all,-her, friends, her virtue fled, Near her betrayer's door she lays her head, And pinched with cold, and shrinking from the shower,

With heavy heart deplores the luckless hour, When, idly first, ambitious of the town,

She left her wheel, and robes of country brown,

GOLDSMITH.

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50. The Jackdaw.

LIVELY AND COLLOQUIAL EXPRESSION:

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'Narrative manner, Repining and 3 Distaste, Alacrity.

'There is a bird, who, by his coat And by the hoarseness of his note,