Oh! no; it was something more exquisite still: 'Twas, that friends, the beloved of my bosom, were near, Who made each scene of enchantment more dear;

And who felt how the blessed charms of nature improve, When we see them reflected from looks that we love.

Thou art not noble,

For all the accommodations that thou bearest,

Are nursed by baseness: thou art by no means valiant,
For thou dost fear the soft and tender fork
Of a poor worm. The best of rest is sleep;
And that thou oft provokest, yet grossly fearest
Thy death, which is no more. Thou art not thyself,
For thou existest on many a thousand grains,
That issue out of dust: happy thou art not,
For what thou hast not, still thou strivest to get;
And what thou hast, forgettest: thou art not certain,
For thy complexion shifts to strange effects,
After the moon. If thou art rich, thou'rt poor;
For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows,
Thou bearest thy heavy riches but a journey,
And death unloads thee. Friend thou hast none,
For thine own bowels, which do call thee sire,
The mere effusion of thy proper loins,

Do curse the gout, serpigo, and the rheum,

For ending thee no sooner: thou hast nor youth nor age, But, as it were, an after-dinner sleep,

Dreaming on both; for all thy blessed youth

Becomes as aged, and doth beg the alms

Of palsied eld; and when thou art old and rich,
Thou hast neither heat, affection, limb, nor beauty,
To make thy riches pleasant.

Love and awe
Mingled in the regard of Helon's eye,
As he beheld the stranger. He was not
In costly raiment clad, nor on his brow
The symbol of a princely lineage wore;
No followers at his back, nor in his hand
Buckler, or sword, or spear; yet in his mien.
Command sat throned serene; and, if he smiled,
A kingly condescension graced his lips,
The lion would have crouched to, in his lair.

• Observe that no is the equivalent of the line preceding.

While the trees are leafless,
While the fields are bare,
Buttercups and daisies
Spring up here and there.
Ere the snow-drop peepeth,
Ere the crocus bold,
Ere the early primrose
Opes its paly gold,

Somewhere on a sunny bank,
Buttercups are bright:

Somewhere 'mong the frozen grass

Peeps the daisy white:

Little hardy flowers,

Like to children poor

Playing in their sturdy health

By their mother's door:

Purple with the north wind,

Yet alert and bold:

Fearing not and caring not,

Though they be a-cold.

The Nautilus ever loves to glide
Upon the crest of the radiant tide.

Tree nor shrub

Dares that drear atmosphere; no polar pine
Uprears a veteran front; yet there ye stand,
Leaning your cheeks against the thick-ribbed ice,
And looking up with brilliant eyes to Him
Who bids you bloom unblanched amid the waste
Of Desolation. Man, who, panting, toils

O'er slippery steeps, or, trembling, treads the verge
Of yawning gulfs, o'er which the headlong plunge
Is to eternity, looks shuddering up,

And marks ye in your placid loveliness,
Fearless, yet frail, and, clasping his chill hands,
Blesses your pencilled beauty. 'Mid the pomp
Of mountain summits rushing on the sky,
And chaining the rapt soul in breathless awe
He bows to bind you drooping to his breast,
Inhales your spirit from the frost-winged gale,
And freer dreams of heaven.

CLASS II.

COMPOUND INTERROGATIVE SENTENCES.

Having under the preceding head of compound declarative sentences, adduced very numerous examples of close, compact and loose, I presume that, by this time, the student is sufficiently acquainted with their peculiarities, to recognise them, whether they appear as declaratives, interrogatives or exclamations. I shall not, therefore, quote a greater number of examples than may be necessary to enable the student to obtain a clear conception of the rule of their delivery, and to apply it with facility.

I. DEFINITE INTERROGATIVES.

1. Close.

RULE X. The close definite interrogative is delivered either with the upward slide from the beginning to the end, (see Plate, Fig. 3,) or with the upward slide at the beginning, passing into a level tone of voice in the middle, and terminating with the upward slide at the end: (see Plate, Fig. 15:) when it has a series, i. e. two more members of similar construction; or being still more complex, when either of these members contains a series; they are successively delivered in the same manner as the first, but in a slightly more elevated tone of voice. (See Plate, Fig. 12: see also Ch. III. Modulation, Slides.)

Of the two methods of delivery stated in the first half of the rule, the first should be adopted in every case in which it is practicable; and it is practicable more frequently than is generally supposed: when, however, the sentence is a very long one, and consequently the space to be traversed by the slide is too great for the compass of the voice, the second must be, necessarily, preferred.

Examples.

Is not this he that sat and begged?

Do the rulers know indeed, that this is the very Christ?

Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know?

Could not this man, who opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have died?

Have they not in this place every motive, assistance and encouragement to engage them in a virtuous and moral life, and to animate them in the attainment of useful learning?

Is it not remarkable that the same temper of weather, which raises this general warmth in animals, should cover the trees with leaves, and the fields with grass, for their security and concealment, and produce such infinite swarms of insects for the support and sustenance of their respective broods?

Does atheism or universal skepticism dilate the heart with the liberal and generous sentiments, and that love of human kind which would render a man revered and blessed, as the patron of depressed merit, the friend of the widow and the orphan, the refuge and sup. port of the poor and unhappy?

Is it possible in the present state of the public sentiment of the world, with the present rapid diffusion of knowledge, with the present reduction of antiquated error to the test of reason, that such a quarter of the world will be permitted to derive nothing but barbarism from intercourse with the countries which stand at the head of civilization?

Are the miseries of man, and is the fatal necessity of death in contemplation?

Has he not himself, have not all the martyrs after him poured forth their blood in the conflict?

Hast thou not known, hast thou not heard that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth fainteth not, neither is weary?

Does not the farmer cultivating his lands, does not the mariner navigating his vessel on the ocean, do not professional men in their various pursuits, contribute as really as the statesman in his cabinet to the prosperity of the country?

Are all the feelings of ancestry, posterity and fellow-citizenship; all the charm, veneration and love bound up in the name of country; the delight, the enthusiasm, with which we seek out, after the lapse of generations and ages, the traces of our fathers' bravery and wisdom;—are these all a legal fiction?

Is the gift of articulate speech, which enables man to impart his condition to man, the organized sense which enables him to comprehend what is imparted, is that sympathy which subjects our opinions and feelings, and through them our conduct to the influence of others, and their conduct to our influence, is that chain of cause and effect which makes our characters receive impressions from the generations before us, and puts it in our power by a good or bad precedent to distil a poison or a balm into the characters of posterity, are these, indeed, all by-laws of a corporation?

Will you believe that the pure system of Christian faith, which appeared eighteen hundred years ago, in one of the obscurest regions of the Roman empire, at the moment of the highest cultivation and of the lowest moral degeneracy; which superseded at once all the curious fabrics of pagan philosophy; which spread almost instantaneously through the civilized world in opposition to the prejudices, the pride, and the persecution of the times; which has already had the most beneficial influence on society, and been the source of almost all the melioration of the human character; and which is now the chief support of the harmony, the domestic happiness, the morals, and the intellectual improvements of the best part of the world; will you believe, I say, that this system originated in the unaided reflections of twelve Jewish fishermen on the sea of Galilee, with the son of a carpenter at their head?

Does prodigal autumn to our age deny

The plenty that once swelled beneath his sober eye?
Will he quench the ray

Infused by his own forming smile at first,

And leave a work so far all blighted and accurst?

Will a man play tricks, will he indulge

A silly, fond conceit of his fair form

And just proportion, fashionable mien,

And pretty face, in presence of his God?
Can we want obedience then

To him, or possibly his love desert,

Who formed us from the dust and placed us here,
Full to the utmost measure of what bliss
Human desires can seek or apprehend?

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Canst thou with impious obloquy condemn
The just decree of God, pronounced and sworn,
That to his only Son, by right endued
With regal sceptre, every soul in heaven
Shall bend the knee, and in that honor due
Confess him rightful king?

Will then the merciful One, who stamped our race
With his own image, and who gave them sway
O'er earth, and the glad dwellers on her face,

Now that our flourishing nations far away

Are spread, where'er the moist earth drinks the day,
Forget the ancient care that taught and nursed
His latest offspring?

2. Compact.

Single compacts only are employed as interrogatives: at least, I have not met with any double compact interrogatives in the course of my reading. I have found them interwoven with other interrogative sentences, but in this form, they are referred to the head of "Mixed sentences."

The single compact sentence in most of its varieties, (in all, I believe, except those formed on the comparatives, more, better, than, &c.,) is wholly interrogative only when the parts appear in the reversed order, thus: "Is it then a time to remove foundations when the earth itself is shaken ?" Restore the natural order of the parts of this sentence, and it ceases to be wholly interrogative: the question being limited to the second part, thus: "When the earth itself is shaken, is it then a time to remove foundations?" In this form the sentence is a variety of the semi-interrogative; and consequently it does not belong here.

Under the head of declarative compacts, I have taken pains to show that the correlative Words are sometimes both expressed, sometimes only one, and sometimes neither. I shall take it for granted that this is now understood; and therefore shall adduce examples under the rule indiscriminately.

RULE XI. The compact definite interrogative, when its parts consist of single members, is delivered precisely like the close; (see preceding Rule;) but when they contain two or more members, the series in the first part is delivered like the series in the close: and