(j ANh iU.N. 





t H4-UHD 



i which 

 null a* ariao fro.-.. 



"1 roimt, 



In- iti:in is 



.is air. 



bhMMi-.. 'rvod by Mr. 



' : ill, near N his h.md ;i 



111 till! 



,1 coun- 

 ilarm. 



father's 

 ared (as indeed it turued out to \M 



lion. 



. *ut to 



:l:< UlolmUiaU 



intellect. 



I con,' the unfortunates now (at this , at, per- 



li-w.'il up perpcii'liculavly iu the Seat of torture, having iu tho 



t pou, dipped f.t-r :nnl 



ink-l.ott!,', aa i! to hi ! palm of the 



l.-ft liuuil a f-.iir sh roudy to receive thoughts 



y.'t iinhatc'hi'il , v'ii which ili.-ii- oyc.i are riveted with a store of dis- 



mig to u fteliiiij mind. 



the unspeakable r I : .uild such a machine be invented) of 

 having ouly to i/ri<iJ uu answer to 0110 of one's dear five hundred 

 I'rii-uds ! 



'< -r sii-iilar horrors, from tho li 611 r when I 

 shut up uuder lock and key, I believe; to indite a dutiful 



'int ? 



To such unhappy persons, then, I would fain offer a few hints (the 

 fruit of long experience,!, which may prove serviceable in the hour of 



T you should come to Modeua (where, among- other relics, you 

 Tassoni's bucket ', st.ip at a palace near the Beggio gate, dwelt 

 in of old by one of th.- 1 > 



My father and my uncle Toby (clever soul) were sitting by the fire 

 with Dr. Slop; luid Corporal Trim (a brave and honest fenow) was 

 reailiug a sermon to them. 



As the sermon contains many parentheses, and affords an 

 opportunity also of showing you a, sentence in brackets (you, 

 will observe that all the previous parenthoses in this lesson are 

 enclosed in crotchets), I shall insert part of it in the following 

 paragraph : 



To havo the fear of God before ant eyes, and in .our mutual dealings 

 v, ith aeh other, to govern our actions by the eternal measures of 

 viaut and wrong : the first of these will comprehend the duties of 

 religion ; the second those of morality, which, tiro .so inseparably con- 

 'r, that you cannot divide these two tables, even in 

 imagination (though, tha attempt is otteu made iu practice), without 

 brcakiu Here my father ob- 



BI i-v.-d that Ir. S:. : ;Ho attempt is often 



made ; ; 'ing more common than to soe a 



man who has no sonso at all of religion, and, indeed, has so much 

 honesty < it as the bitterest 



fFroiit ehoiiM >it, at a suspicion of his moral character, or 



imagine he was not conscientiously just and scrupulous to the utter- 

 most i 



1 know tin- banki r I deal with, or the physician I usually call in 



re is no need," cried Dr. Slop I waking) "to ciJl in any phynickui 

 iu this case" J, tn 1 : nc-ither of them men of much religion. 



ienccd schoolmasters may quickly make a grammar of boys' 

 . and reduce them all (saving some few exceptions) to certain 

 rules. 



Ingenious boys, who are Mlo, think, with tho liar- in tho fable, that, 

 with snails (so they count the rest of their school-fellows), 

 :11 come m '> the poet; though sleeping a good 



while before their starting. 



VIII. THE DASH. 



48. Tlie Dash is ash occurs in n 



'C/i a manner as to 

 befaralkl tv tlw top or the bottom of the page. 





..< diu*h in Homctimoft wed to exprciw a sudden top, 



of a pi : 



brackoto, and a parenth- 



sllilcl.'ll .-I'lll, UK l-ililllj,' 



If you will give mo your attention, I will show yoo bat top, I do 

 not know tliat yo wish v. 



Alufl! thut folly and fulnehooJ uhouhl be o hrd to ^rappltf with 

 .a hope to mk muakind tbe wiser for hi* labouni, mujit 



!-. 



rce wolf prowls nrountl thr-c-thcre h itandJi KU?ir 

 !, for lie nothin-- ft-arfl. 



'IN.- wild st. i-' I.- .! ' !:ii!,,,v waton' sound, nd tMflHUMVf 

 flios forwiird o'er hi:-. Uick lie buudg hi* Cutely liornh tb* UOM*. 

 less ground his hurried f.-ft imi-r' .-. uot^and hi track is loct Jitf, 



ult Of tho hi ce/.--, and 

 trees. 



The wild horse thee approaches in hi turn. His mano at 

 erect his nostrils burn he suorto he prick* hi* e. 

 aside. 



was silence not a word was said their meal was be-fore 



had been thanked, and they began to cat. 



They hear not see not know not for their eye are covered with 

 thick mists they will not aee. 



And ye like fading autumn leaves will hill ; your throne bat dut 

 your empire but a grave your martial pomp a black funen.-: 

 your palace trampled by your meaue&t slave. 



To-day is thine improve to-day, nor trust to-morrow's dfefjHt 

 ray. 



For some time tho struggle was most amusing-'-the fish ; 

 and the bird screaming with all ita might the one attempting to fly, 

 and the other to swim from its invisible enemy the '.Milder at one 

 moment losing and the next regaining his centre of gravity. 



54. The dash is sometimes to be read as a period, with the 

 falling inflection of the voice. 



The favoured, child of Nature, who combines in herself these united 

 perfections, may justij i>e < "u.sMered as the masterpiece of creatiM**( 

 as the mo>t pei ity here below. 



Now launch tin. 1 loat upon the wave the wind U blowing oii' Ui 

 shore I will riot livi> a cowering slave, in these pel. 

 more. 



The wind is Mowing off the shore, and out to aea the stean 

 my music is the dashinij roar, niy canopy the st:i . > 



above, so fair a blue, that heaven seems opening i 



He had stopped, soon after beginning the t.. 

 ment away among his papers, and had never looked at it again. 



The exaltation of his swul left him he snnk down and his misery 

 went over him liko a flood. 



Mr. Playfair was too indulgent, in truth, and favourable to his 

 friends and made a kind of liberal cllowuuce for tho faults of all 

 mankind except only faults of baseness or of cruelty ; againtt which 

 he never foiled to manifest tho most open scorn and detestation. 



Towards women he had the most chivalrous feelings of regard and 

 attention, and was, beyond almst nil men, acceptable and agieeabta in 

 their society though witliout the teaat lerlty or pretension unbecom- 

 ing hiv age or condition. 



55. The dash is sometimes to be read like a comma, with the 

 voice suspended. 



" I have always felt that I could meet death with composure ; bat I 

 did not know," she said, with a tremulous voice, her h'i- 

 did not know how hard a thing it would be to leave my children, till 

 now that the hour is come." 



And Babylon shall become she that wa the beauty of kingdoms, 

 ddeana aa the overthrow of Sodom 

 and Gomorrah by the hand of < 



Our laud the first garden of liberty's tree it has been, aud shall 

 yet be, tbe land of tho free. 



They shall find that tho name which they have dared to proscribe 

 that the name of Mao Gregor is a spell. 



