5. Analyse the following sentence: Some murmur when their sky is clear, And wholly bright to view, If one small speck of dark appear In their great heaven of blue. 6. Write out in columns all the words connected with the following English words: Old1; west; dark; loft; lie2; keep; hill; ten; ere.3 7. Write down in columns all the derivatives you know from the following Latin words: Pleo, I fill (root ple, stem plēt), compound with con, sub, and re; simil-is, like; pono, I place (root pon, stem posit), compound with de, con, sub, re, and ex; facio, I make (root fac, stem fact), compound with manu (= with the hand), de, sub, ex (ef). 8. Write sentences containing the following words: Illegal, unofficial, informal; shiftless, improvident, and thoughtless. 9. Write sentences containing the following phrases: To take the initiative; to break cover; to pass the Rubicon; to engage in. 3 Early, etc. 1 Eld, etc. 2 Lair, etc. ADVANTAGES OF EXERCISE AND OPEN AIR. Avail, are of value. From Lat. ad, to, and valere, to be vail. Vital, relating to life. From Lat. vita, life. Cognate: Vitals. Abyss, a bottomless gulf. From Gr. a, not or without, and byssos, a bottom foundation. (Shakspeare and or Milton write abysm.) Cognate: Abysmal. Rampant, jumping about. (A French present participle, Aurora, the goddess of the morn- 1. Ah! what avail the largest gifts of heaven When drooping health and spirits go amiss? How tasteless then whatever can be given ! Health is the vital principle of bliss, And exercise of health: in proof of this, Behold the wretch who flings his life away, Soon swallowed in disease's sad abyss; While he whom toil has braced, or manly play, Has light as air each limb, each thought as clear as day. 2. Oh! who can speak the vigorous joys of health? As May comes on, and wakes the balmy wind; 3. I care not, Fortune, what you me deny : You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shews her brightening face; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns by living streams at eve : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the rich children leave; Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave. Dr Beattie (1735-1803). CAUTIONS AND DIRECTIONS FOR READING. VERSE 1.-Line 1: Avoid the verse-accent upon what. The emphatic word is avail.—Line 9: Read light-as-air as one group. VERSE 2.-Line 6: Pause after See.-Line 8: Emphasis on all. EXERCISES.-1. Write a short paper on 'Good Health.' 2. Parse the first four lines of verse 1. 3. Analyse the last four lines of verse 1. "YOU WILL REPENT IT.' Inexorable, not to be turned away | Martial, warlike or relating to war. by entreaty or prayer. From Retaliation, revenge. From Lat. Menace, threat. Intercepted, stopped by coming between. From Lat. inter, between, and capio (capt-um), I take. Cognates: Reception, receptive. Sentiment, feeling. From Lat. sentire, to feel. Cognates: Sentient; sentimental. Remorse, repentance accompanied with great pain. From Lat. re, again, and mordeo (mors-um), I bite. (In O. E. it was called Agenbite.) From Mars, the Roman god of war. Redoubt, a work which forms part of a large fortificationgenerally retired, for the purpose of affording the garrison a means of retreat. Hieroglyphic, by means of signs, not words. From Gr. hieros, sacred, and glyphē, a mark. Ransomed, bought back. From Fr. rançon, a shortened form of Lat. redemptio, a buying back. Hence ransom and redemption are the same word in different forms. Mutual, of each other. From Lat. mutuus, in turn, reciprocal. Recognition, knowledge. From Lat. re, again, and cognosco (cognit-um), I know. (The French form of the word is reconnaître.) Cognates: Recognise, recognisance; cognisable, cognition; cognisant, cognisance. 1. A young officer had so far forgotten himself, in a moment of irritation, as to strike a private soldier who was full of personal dignity (as sometimes happens in all ranks), and distinguished for his courage. The inexorable laws of military discipline forbade to the injured soldier any practical redress. He could look for no retaliation by acts. 2. Words only were at his command; and, in a tumult of indignation, as he turned away, the soldier said to his officer that he would make him repent it.' This, wearing the shape of a menace, naturally rekindled the officer's anger, and intercepted any disposition which might be rising within him towards a sentiment of remorse; and thus the irritation between the two young men grew hotter than before. 3. Some weeks after this a partial action took place with the enemy. Suppose yourself a spectator, and looking down into a valley occupied by two armies. They are facing each other, you see, in martial array. But it is no more than a skirmish which is going on; in the course of which, however, an occasion suddenly arises for a desperate service. 4. A redoubt, which has fallen into the enemy's hand, must be recaptured at any price, and under circumstances of all but hopeless difficulty. A strong party has volunteered for the service; there is a cry for somebody to head them; you see a soldier step out from the ranks to assume this dangerous leadership; the party moves rapidly forward; in a few minutes it is swallowed up from your eyes in clouds of smoke. 5. For one half-hour from behind these clouds you receive hieroglyphic reports of bloody strife-fierce repeating signals, flashes from the guns, rolling musketry, and exulting hurrahs, advancing or receding, slackening or redoubling. At length all is over; the redoubt has been recovered; that which was lost is found again; the jewel which had been made captive is ransomed with blood. Crimsoned with blood, the wreck of the conquering party is relieved, and at liberty to return. The plume 6. From the river you see it ascending. crested officer in command rushes forward, with his left hand raising his hat in homage to the blackened fragments of what was once a flag; whilst with his right hand he seizes that of the leader, though no more than a private from the ranks. 7. That perplexes you not: mystery you see none in that. For distinctions of order perish, ranks are confounded, high and low' are words without a meaning, and to wreck goes every notion or feeling that divides the noble from the noble, or the brave man from the brave. But wherefore is it that now, when suddenly they wheel into mutual recognition, suddenly they pause? 8. This soldier, this officer-who are they? O reader! once before they had stood face to facethe soldier it is that was struck; the officer it is that struck him. Once again they are meeting; and the gaze of armies is upon them. If for a moment a doubt divides them, in a moment the doubt has perished. One glance exchanged between them publishes the forgiveness that is sealed for ever. 9. As one who recovers a brother whom he had accounted dead, the officer sprang forward, threw his arms around the neck of the soldier, and kissed him, as if he were some martyr glorified by that shadow of death from which he was returning; whilst on his part the soldier, stepping back, and carrying his open hand through the motions of the military salute to a superior, makes this immortal answer-that answer which shut up for ever the memory of the indignity offered to him, even whilst for the last time alluding to it: 'Sir,' he said, 'I told you before, that I would make you repent it.' De Quincey (1786–1859). EXERCISES.-1. Write a SUMMARY of the above story. 2. Write a short paper on 'A Noble Revenge,' from your own summary. |