Charlemagne_, C. i, St. 40.
"Love in Adalgise's breast has fixed his sting."
--_Ib._, C. i, St. 30.
"Thirty days hath September,
April, June, and November,
February twenty-eight alone,
All the rest thirty and one."
_Colet's Grammar, or Paul's Accidence_. Lond., 1793, p. 75.
LESSON II.--RESTORE THE RHYTHM.
"'Twas not the fame of what he once had been,
Or tales in old records and annals seen."
--_Rowe's Lucan_, B. i, l. 274.
"And Asia now and Afric are explor'd,
For high-priced dainties, and citron board."
--_Eng. Poets: ib._, B. i, l. 311.
"Who knows not, how the trembling judge beheld
The peaceful court with arm'd legions fill'd?"
--_Eng. Poets; ib._, B. i, l. 578.
"With thee the Scythian wilds we'll wander o'er,
With thee burning Libyan sands explore."
--_Eng. Poets: ib._, B. i, l. 661.
"Hasty and headlong different paths they tread,
As blind impulse and wild distraction lead."
--_Eng. Poets: ib._, B. i, l. 858.
"But Fate reserv'd to perform its doom,
And be the minister of wrath to Rome."
--_Eng. Poets: ib._, B. ii, l. 136.
"Thus spoke the youth. When Cato thus exprest
The sacred counsels of his most inmost breast."
--_Eng. Poets: ib._, B. ii, l. 435.
"These were the strict manners of the man,
And this the stubborn course in which they ran;
The golden mean unchanging to pursue,
Constant to keep the proposed end in view."
--_Eng. Poets: ib._, B. ii, l. 580.
"What greater grief can a Roman seize,
Than to be forc'd to live on terms like these!"
--_Eng. Poets: ib._, B. ii, l. 782.
"He views the naked town with joyful eyes,
While from his rage an arm'd people flies."
--_Eng. Poets: ib._, B. ii, l. 880.
"For planks and beams he ravages the wood,
And the tough bottom extends across the flood."
--_Eng. Poets: ib._, B. ii, l. 1040.
"A narrow pass the horned mole divides,
Narrow as that where Euripus' strong tides
Beat on Euboean Chalcis' rocky sides."
--_Eng. Poets: ib._, B. ii, l. 1095.
"No force, no fears their hands unarm'd bear,
But looks of peace and gentleness they wear."
--_Eng. Poets: ib._, B. iii, l. 112.
"The ready warriors all aboard them ride,
And wait the return of the retiring tide."
--_Eng. Poet
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