the exhausted hearts, and excite the wearied and capricious inclinations, of the men; till, by a rapid and, at length, complete enervation, the Roman character lost its signature, and through a quick succession of slavery, effeminacy, and vice, sunk into that degeneracy of which some of the modern Italiau states now serve to furnish a too just specimen. QUESTION.-1. What is the Rule for the use of the inflection, a marked in the 2d, 4th, and 6th paragraphs? See page 26. EXERCISE V. I LOVE TO IIVE, AND I LIVE TO LOVE. I LOVE TO LIVE. 1. "I love to live," said a prattling boy, As he gayly played with his new-bought toy, 2. "I love to live," said a stripling bold, "I will seek for fame, I will toil for gold;" 3. "I love to live," said a lover true, "O, gentle maid, I would live for you; 4. I love to live," said a happy sire, "I love to live," said an aged one, Whose hour of life was well-nigh run: Think you such words from him were wild? The old man was again a child. 6. And ever thus in this fallen world, Is the banner of hope to the breeze unfurled; 8. I LIVE TO LOVE. "I live to love," said a laughing girl, 66 I live to love," said a maiden fair, As she twined a wreath for her sister's hair; 9. "I live to love," said a gay young bride, 10. "I live to love," said a mother kind, "I would live a guide to the infant mind;" 11. "I shall live to love," said a fading form, And her eye was bright and her cheek grew warm; As she thought on the blissful world on high, 12. And ever thus in this lower world, Should the banner of love be wide unfurled, 1. (') EXERCISE VI. LIFE IS SWEET. O, life is sweet!” said a merry child, In the meadows green, 'neath the sky serene, O, the world is a fairy home! There are trees hung thick with blossoms fair, And flowers gay and bright, There's the moon's clear ray, and the sun-lit day, 2. "O, life is sweet!" said a gallant youth, And he pondered on the days by-gone, There was hope in his bright and beaming eye, He clung to life, he dared its strife,- O, life is sweet!" came merrily From the lips of a fair young bride, Our constancy to prove; Thy sorrow mine, my trials thine, 4. "O, lije is sweet!" said a mother fond, Pure, guiltless, as thou art; From the tie that forms a part?" 6. His heart was bent,-his strength was spent,- O, yès; for round the old man's chair His children's children clung; And each dear face and warm embrace Thus life is sweet, from early youth To weak, enfeebled age; Love twines with life, through care and strife, Though rough, perchance, the path we tread, in every state there's something yet, QUESTIONS.-1. Why the falling inflection on sweet, in each paragraph See Rule VIII., page 31. 2. What rule for the rising infiection on him, and the falling on yes, fifth stanza? 3. In what respect do the third and seventh lines of each stanza differ from the rest! 4. How, according to the notation marks, should the first and fifth stanzas be read? See page 40. EXERCISE VII. COMMON PEOPLE. T. 8. ARTHUR, 1. "Are you going to call upon Mrs. Clayton and her daughters, Mrs. Márygold ?" asked a neighbor, alluding to a family that had just moved into Sycamore Row. 2. "No, indeed, Mrs. Lemmington, that I am not. I don't visit everybody." 3. "I thought the Claytons were a very respectable family," remarked Mrs. Lemmington. 4. "Respectable! Everybody is getting respectable nowa-days. If they are respectable, it is very lately they have become so. What is Mr. Clayton, I wonder, but a schoolmaster! It's too bad that such people will come crowding themselves into genteel neighborhoods. The time was, when to live in Sycamore Row was guarantee enough for any one; but now, all kinds of people have come into it." 5. "I have never met Mrs. Clayton," remarked Mrs. Lemmington; "but I have been told that she is a most estimable woman, and that her daughters have been educated with great care. Indeed, they are represented as being highly ac complished girls." 6. "Well, I don't care what they are represented to be. I'm not going to keep company with a schoolmaster's wife and daughters; that's certain. 7. "Is there anything disgraceful in keeping a school ?" 8. "No; nor in making shoes, either. But then, that's no reason why I should keep company with my shoemaker's wife; is it? Let common people associate together, that's my doctrine." 9. "But what do you mean by common people, Mrs. Márygold?" 10. "Why, I mean common people. who have not come of a respectable family. Poor people. People |