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 ----.
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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.
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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.
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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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