can never approve of
such a piece of injustice. And I have my reasons."--"Indeed, sir,"
cried Deborah, "If you have your reasons, that's another affair; but I
should be glad to know those reasons."--"Excuse me, Madam," returned
he, "they lie too deep for discovery" (laying his hand upon his
bosom); "they remain buried, rivetted here."
9. After he was gone, upon a general consultation, we could not tell
what to make of these fine sentiments. Olivia considered them as
instances of the most exalted passion; but I was not quite so
sanguine; yet, whatever they might portend, it was resolved to
prosecute the scheme of Farmer Williams, who, from my daughter's first
appearance in the country, had paid her his addresses.
--_Oliver Goldsmith_
ABSOLUTE, RESOLUTION, INTRODUCED, (Appendix, A, 2.)
VISITS, NATIVE, INFINITELY, CUPIDS, VANITY, GRATIFYING,
MORTIFYING, SANGUINE. (Appendix, A, 8.) UNFORTUNATE,
FORTUNE, VIRTUE. (Appendix, A, 9.)
Show by numerous examples from this selection that the
dependent clause of a sentence takes the rising
Inflection--whilst the principal clause takes the
falling. Which of the two has the heavier shading?
(Introduction, p. 33.)
How are such parenthetical clauses as AS HE DESIGNED, in
the second sentence, kept in the background?
(Introduction, pp. 24 and 27.) Give similar examples
from this selection.
What Inflection is placed on the rhetorical questions in
par. v? (Introduction, p. 19.)
How is the effect of the climax in par. viii brought
out? (Introduction, p. 31.)
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THE SOLDIER'S DREAM
Our bugles sang truce--for the night-cloud had lowered
And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky;
And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered,
The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die.
When reposing that night on my pallet of straw, 5
By the wolf-scaring faggot that guarded the slain,
At the dead of the night a sweet vision I saw,
And thrice ere the morning I dreamt it again.
Methought from the battlefield's dreadful array,
Far, far I had roamed on a desolate track; 10
'Twas autumn--and sunshine arose on the way
To the home of my fathers, that welcomed me back.
I flew to the pleasant fields traversed so oft
In life's morning march, when my bosom was young;
I heard my own mountain-goats bleating al
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