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nto the ocean's arms!" * * * * * 6. "Under his spurning feet, the road Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed, And the landscape sped away behind, Like an ocean flying before the wind." * * * * * 7. "The wind, one morning sprang up from sleep, Saying, 'Now for a frolic! now for a leap! Now for a madcap galloping chase! I'll make a commotion in every place!'" * * * * * 8. "O hark! O hear! how thin and clear, And thinner, clearer, farther going! O sweet and far, from cliff and scar, The horns of Elfland faintly blowing!" * * * * * 9. "It is done! Clang of bell and roar of gun! Send the tidings up and down. How the belfries rock and reel! How the great guns, peal on peal, Fling the joy from town to town!" * * * * * 10. "O sacred forms, how proud you look! How high you lift your heads into the sky! How huge you are, how mighty and how free! Ye are the things that tower, that shine; whose smile Makes glad--whose frown is terrible; whose forms, Robed or unrobed, do all the impress wear Of awe divine." CHAPTER II. MENTALITY. MIND ACTIVITIES DOMINATED BY A CONSCIOUSNESS OF _Reflection_ OR _Processes_ OF _Thought, Clearness, Definiteness_. 1. "Beyond the street a tower,--beyond the tower a moon,--beyond the moon a star,--beyond the Star, what?" * * * * * 2. "Once more: speak clearly, if you speak at all; Carve every word before you let it fall; Don't, like a lecturer or dramatic star, Try overhard to roll the British R; Do put your accents in the proper spot; Don't--let me beg you--don't say 'How?' for 'What?' And when you stick on conversation's burrs, Don't strew the pathway with those dreadful urs." * * * * * 3. "To be, or not to be; that is the question:-- Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune; Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep,-- No more:" * * * * * 4. "I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic. Not the sincerity
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