uture times, the bard begun."
--POPE.--_Ib._, p. 165.

"Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens
To wash it white as snow? _Whereto_ serves mercy
But to confront the visage of offence?"
--_Shak., Hamlet_.

"Look! in this place ran _Cassius_' dagger through."
--_Id., J. Caesar_.

"_And_ when they list, their lean and flashy songs
Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw."
--_Milton, Lycidas_.

"Did not great Julius bleed for _justice'_ sake?"
--_Dodd and Shak. cor._

"May I _express thee' unblam'd? since_ God is light"
--_Milton_, B. iii, l. 3.

"Or _hear'st_ thou rather pure ethereal stream?"
--_Id._, B. iii, l. 7.

"Republics, kingdoms, empires, may decay;
_Great_ princes, heroes, sages, sink to nought."
--_Peirce or La-Rue cor._

"Thou _bringst_, gay creature as thou art,
A solemn image to my heart."
--_Hallock cor._

"Know _then_ thyself, presume not God to scan;
The proper study of mankind is Man."
--_Pope, on Man_, Ep. ii, l. 1.

"Raised on _pilasters high_ of _burnished_ gold."
--_Dr. S. Butler cor._

"Love in _Adalgise_' breast has fixed his sting."
--_Id._

"Thirty days _each have_ September,
April, June, and _old_ November;
_Each_ of the rest _has_ thirty-one,
Bating February alone,
Which has twenty-eight in fine,
Till leap-year gives it twenty-nine."
--_Dean Colet cor._

LESSON II.--RHYTHM RESTORED.

"'Twas not the fame of what he once had been,
Or tales in _records old_ and annals seen."
--_Rowe cor._

"And Asia now and Afric are explored
For high-priced dainties and _the_ citron board."
--_Rowe cor._

"Who knows not how the trembling judge beheld
The peaceful court with _arm~ed_ legions fill'd?"
--_Rowe cor._

"With thee the Scythian wilds we'll wander o'er,
With thee _the_ burning Libyan sands explore."
--_Rowe cor._

"Hasty and headlong, different paths they tread,
As _impulse blind_ and wild distraction lead."
--_Rowe cor._

"But Fate reserv'd _him_ to perform its doom,
And be the minister of wrath to Rome."
--_Rowe cor._

"Thus spoke the youth. When Cato thus _express'd_
The sacred counsels of his inmost breast."
--_Rowe cor._

"These were the _rigid_ ma