Your infants in your arms, and there have sat And do you now put on your best attire? And do you now strew flowers in his way, Who comes in triumph over Pompey's blood? Begone! run to your houses, fall upon your knees, That needs must light on this ingratitude! 24. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled, that force must be called in to win back our love? 25. Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime, Know ye the land of the cedar and vine, Where the flowers ever blossom, the beams ever shine; And the voice of the nightingale never is mute, Where the tints of the earth, and the hues of the sky, And the purple of Ocean is deepest in dye; 'Tis the clime of the East; 'tis the land of the Sun- Oh! wild as the accents of lovers' farewell Are the hearts which they bear, and the tales which they tell. 3 ST III. SLUR. LUR is that smooth, gliding, subdued movement of the voice, by which those parts of a sentence of less comparative importance are rendered less impressive to the ear, and emphatic words and phrases set in stronger relief. 2. Emphatic Words, or the words that express the leading thoughts, are usually pronounced with a louder and more forcible effort of the voice, and are often prolonged. But words that are slurred must generally be read in a lower and less forcible tone of voice, more rapidly, and all pronounced nearly alike. 3. Slur must be employed in cases of parenthesis, contrast, repetition, or explanation, where the phrase or sentence is of small comparative importance; and often when qualification of time, place, or manner is made. 4. The Parts which are to be Slurred in a portion of the exercises are printed in Italic letters. Students will first read the parts of the sentence that appear in Roman, and then the whole sentence, passing lightly and quickly over what was first omitted. The slurred portions in unmarked examples will be read in like manner. EXERCISES IN SLUR. 1. Dismiss, as soon as may be, all angry thoughts. 2. The general, with his head drooping, and his hands leaning on his horse's neck, moved feebly out of the battle. 3. The rivulet sends forth glad sounds, and, tripping o'er its bed of pebbly sands, or leaping down the rocks, seems with continuous laughter to rejoice in its own being. 4. The sick man from his chamber looks at the twisted brooks; and, feeling the cool breath of each little pool, breathes a blessing on the summer rain. 5. Children are wading, with cheerful cries, Laughing maidens, with soft, young eyes, Walk or sit in the shady nook. 6. The calm shade shall bring a kindred calm, and the sweet breeze, that makes the green leaves dance, shall waft a balm to thy sick heart. 7. Ingenious boys, who are idle, think, with the hare in the fable, that, running with SNAILS (so they count the rest of their school-fellows), they shall come soon enough to the post; though sleeping a good while before their starting. 8. Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more; it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, 9. They shall hear my VENGEANCE, that would scorn to LISTEN to the story of my WRONGS. The MISERABLE HIGHLAND DROVER, bankrupt, barefooted, stripped of all, dishonored, and hunted down, because the avarice of others grasped at more than that poor all could pay, shall BURST on them in an AWFUL CHANGE. 10. Young eyes, that last year smiled in ours, Now point the rifle's barrel; And hands, then stained with fruits and flowers, Bear redder stains of quarrel. 11. No! DEAR AS FREEDOM is, and in my heart's just estimation prized above all price, I would much rather be MYSELF the SLAVE, and WEAR the BONDS, than fasten them on HIM. 12. The moon is at her full, and, riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep to-night. 13. If there's a power above us--and that there is, all Nature cries aloud through all her works-He must delight in virtue; and that which he delights in must be happy. 14. Here we have butter pure as virgin gold; And milk from cows that can a tail unfold With bōvine pride; and new-laid eggs, whose praise Is sung by pullets with their morning lays; Trout from the brook; good water from the well; 15. Ye glittering towns, with wealth and splendor crowned ; Where first our marriage vows were given, And point with taper spire to heaven. 18. 19. And men, through novel spheres of thought Will learn new things when I am not.” Think Of the bright lands within the western main, Melody, like a happy soul released, Hangs in the air, and from invisible plumes Who had not heard Of Rose, the gardener's daughter? Where was he, At such a distance from his youth in grief, An hourly neighbor. Paradise, and groves Or a mere fiction of what never was? In love and holy passion, should find these 21. As a rose after a shower, bent down by tear drops, waits for a passing breeze or a kindly hand to shake its branches, that, lightened, it may stand once more upon its stem—so one who is bowed down with affliction longs for a friend to lift him out of his sorrow, and bid him once more rejoice. Happy is the man who has that in his soul which acts upon the dejected like April airs upon viölet roots. 22. The hunting tribes of air and earth The falcon (faw'kn), poised on soaring wing, The eagle pounces on the lamb; |