When use of speech was not confined * He'd boast his flight 'twere vain to follow; 6 "O Puss, it bodes thee dire disgrace The scampering Hare outstripped the wind, 10 The creeping Tortoise lagged behind, And scarce had passed a single pole, 11 When Puss had almost reach'd the goal. 12" Friend Tortoise," 13 quoth the jeering Hare, 14" Your burden's more than you can bear : To help your speed, it were as well That I should ease you of your shell : Jog on a little faster, prythee, I'll take a nap and then be with thee." 15 The Tortoise heard his taunting jeer, But still resolved to persevere, And to the goal securely crept The bets were won, the Hare awake, LLOYD. 39. Sin and Death. NARRATIVE MANNER: Disgust and Dread; & Narrative manner, rising again into 3 Disgust and Dread; Narrative manner, deepening into Gloom, Horror, and & Rage; renews the expression of Gloom and 10 Dread. -Before Hell Gates there sat On either side a formidable shape; In secret, riding through the air she comes, Lured with the smell of infant blood, to dance With Lapland witches, while the labouring moon Eclipses at their charms. 5 The other shape, (If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint or limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either,) 'black it stood as night, * Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. 10 The grisly monster moving onward, came With horrid strides, Hell trembled as he strode. MILTON. 40. Opening of L'Allegro. GAIETY OF MANNER: 1 Scorn and Aversion; Delight and Love. Hence! loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus, and blackest midnight born, In Stygian cave forlorn Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy! Find out some uncouth cell, Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night raven sings; There under ebon shades and low-browed rocks, As ragged as thy locks, In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell. 2 But come thou goddess fair and free Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles, Come, and trip it as you go And, in thy right hand, lead with thee Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free. MILTON.. 41. Opening of Il Pensieroso. SOLEMNITY OF MANNER: 2 Scorn and Aversion mingled with Pity; Awe, mingled with * Delight, sometimes relaxing into Gloom. Hence! vain deluding Joys, The brood of Folly without father bred! How little you bestead, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys! Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the sun-beams; Or likest hovering dreams 2 The fickle pensioners of Morpheus 'train. * But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy ! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of mortal sight, And therefore to our weaker view Q'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue; |