'The very weight of Richard's guilt shall crush him.

Then let us on, my friends, and boldly face him. "In peace, there's nothing so becomes a man As mild behaviour and humility;

7 But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Let us be tigers in our fierce deportment. For me, the ransom of my bold attempt Shall be this body on the earth's cold face: "But if we thrive, the glory of the action The meanest soldier here shall share his part of. Advance your standards, draw your willing swords,

Sound drums and trumpets boldly and cheerfully,

The words "St. George, Richmond, and

Victory."

SHAKSPEARE.

35. Richard III. leading his Soldiers against Richmond.

4

VEHEMENT EXPRESSION :

6

'Eager Determination; relaxes into the Narrative manner; 3De. fiance and Determination, Contempt, Rage increasing in eagerness to the end.

1

Arm, arm, my lords, the foe is in the field; Come, bustle, bustle ;-caparison my

horse

Call up lord Stanley, bid him bring his power:
Myself will lead the soldiers to the plain;
'And thus my battle shall be ordered :—
My foreward shall be drawn out all in length,
Consisting equally of horse and foot;

And in the midst our archers shall be placed.
The Duke of Norfolk and the Earl of Surrey
Shall have the leading of the foot and horse;
While we ourself in the main battle follow
Well winged with chosen horse on either side.
Let not our babbling dreams affright our
souls;

3

Conscience is but a word that cowards use, Devised at first to keep the strong in awe; * Let strong arms be our conscience, swords our

law;

And thus let's on, my friends, and to't pell mell,
Remembering whom we have to fight withal,
5 A scum of Bretons, rascals, runaways,
Whom their o'ercloyed country vomits forth
To desperate adventures and destruction.

"A thousand hearts are swelling in this bosom: Draw, archers, draw-your arrows to their head, Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in blood; And thou, our warlike champion, thrice renowned

St. George, inspire me with the rage of lions: Upon them-on them-charge-come, follow

me.

SHAKSPEARE.

36. Helena upbraiding Hermia.

PLAINTIVE EXPRESSION:

'Grief and Anger, relaxing into Affectionate Regret; rises again into Reproach and Grief.

1Injurious Hermia, most ungrateful maid, Have you conspired, have you with these contrived

To bait me with this foul derision?

Is all the counsel that we two have shared,

2 The sisters' vows, the hours that we have spent, When we have chid the hasty-footed time For parting us: oh! is it all forgot?

All schooldays' friendship, childhood innocence?
We, Hermia, like two gods,

Created with our needles both one flower,
Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion,
Both warbling of one song, both in one key,
As if our hands, our sides, our voices, minds,
Had been incorporate. So we grew together,
Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,
But yet a union in partition;

Two lovely berries moulded on one stem;
So with two seeming bodies, both one heart.
3 And will you rend our ancient love asunder
To join with men in scorning your poor friend?
It is not friendly, 'tis not maidenly:
Our sex, as well as I, may chide you
"Though I alone do feel the injury.

for it,

SHAKSPEARE.

37. Night Thoughts.

2

SOLEMN EXPRESSION :

3

4

5

6

1 Meditative Manner, Awe, Alarm, Regret, Alarm, with Awe;

7

8

9

'Pity, Admiration, Pity," Admiration, " Awe, with 18 Fear, and 13 Astonishment; 14 Dread, 15 Exultation.

1 The bell strikes one. We take no note of

time,

2

But from its loss. To give it then a tongue
Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke,
I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright,

It is the knell of my departed hours:

3 Where are they? with the years beyond the flood.

5 It is the signal that demands despatch:

How much is to be done! My hopes and fears
Rise up alarmed, and o'er life's narrow verge
Look down-on what? a fathomless abyss,
A dread eternity,—how surely mine!
And can eternity belong to me,

Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?

9

'How poor, how rich, how abject, 10 how au

gust,

How complicate, how wonderful, is man!

"How passing wonder He who made him such! Who centred in our make such strange ex

tremes,

From different natures marvellously mixed.

Connexion exquisite of distant worlds!
Distinguished link in being's endless chain,
Midway from nothing to the Deity!
A beam ethereal, sullied and absorbed !
Though sullied and dishonoured, still divine.
Dim miniature of greatness absolute!
An heir of glory! a frail child of dust!
Helpless immortal! insect infinite!

A worm! a god! 12 I tremble at myself,
And in myself am lost. At home a stranger
Thought wanders up and down surprised,
aghast,

And wondering at her own:-how reason reels! 13 O what a miracle to man is man!

Triumphantly distressed, what joy, what dread! Alternately transported and alarmed.

What can preserve my life, or what destroy? An angel's arm can't snatch me from the

grave;

15 Millions of angels can't confine me there.

YOUNG.

38. The Hare and the Tortoise.

LIVELY AND COLLOQUIAL EXPRESSION:

2

6

8

4

1 Narrative manner, Contempt, 3Narrative manner, Vaunting, * Narrative manner, Warning, 'Defiance, Narrative manner, "Rapidity of manner, "Drawling manner, "Rapidity of manner, 12 Sneering, Narrative manner, 14 Sneering, 15 Narrative manner, with an occasional expression of Slyness and Caution; 1o Argumentative manner.

In days of yore, when Time was young, When birds conversed as well as sung,

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