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s the one differ from the other? 2. How many parts are required for _harmony_? how many for _melody_? 3. What is _unison_? 4. What does _music_ include? EXAMPLES. Sweetest ---- Are those that are by distance made more sweet. ----, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory. Ring out ye crystal spheres And with your ninefold ---- Make up full consort to the angelic ----. * * * * * MEMORY (page 239). QUESTIONS. 1. What is _memory_ in the special and in the general sense? 2. What is _remembrance_, and how distinguished from _memory_? 3. Is _remembrance_ voluntary or involuntary? 4. What is _recollection_, and what does it involve? 5. What is _reminiscence_? _retrospection_? How do these two words differ? EXAMPLES. ---- like a purse, if it be over-full that it can not shut, all will drop out of it; take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy ---- spoil the digestion thereof. ---- wakes with all her busy train, Swells at my breast, and turns the past to pain. It is a favorite device of eminent men to devote their old age to writing their ----s, thus quietly living over again a busy or tumultuous life. * * * * * MERCY (page 239). QUESTIONS. 1. What is _mercy_ in the strictest sense? 2. To what class is _grace_ shown? 3. To what class are _mercy_, _forgiveness_, and _pardon_ extended? 4. In what wider significations is _mercy_ used? 5. What is _clemency_? _leniency_ or _lenity_? How do these words compare with _mercy_? EXAMPLES. How would you be, If He, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And ---- then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made. The only protection which the conquered could find was in the moderation, the ----, and the enlarged policy of the conquerors. To favor sin is to discourage virtue; undue ---- to the bad is unkindness to the good. * * * * * METER (page 240). QUESTIONS. 1. What is _euphony_? How does it differ from _meter_, _measure_, and _rhythm_? 2. How are _rhythm_ and _meter_ produced? 3. How does _meter_ differ from _rhythm_? 4. What is a _verse_ in the strict sense? In what wider se
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