LESSON VII.—SCANNING. Divide the following Verses into the feet which compose them; distinguish by marks the long and the short syllables, and specify the various figures which occur in the poem. 'Twas at the royal feast, for Persia won, By Philip's warlike sou: The godlike hero sat On his imperial throne: His valiant peers were placed around; Sat like a blooming Eastern bride In flower of youth and beauty's pride. None but the brave, None but the brave, None but the brave deserves the fair. II. Timotheus, placed on high Amid the tuneful quire, With flying fingers touch'd the lyre: The song began from Jove, Who left his blissful seats above When he to fair Olympia press'd; And stamp'd an image of himself, a sovereign of the world. The listening crowd admire the lofty sound, A present deity! they shout around: V present deity! the vaulted roofs rebound: With ravish'd ears Assumes the god, And seems to shake the spheres. III. The praise of Bacchus then, the sweet musician sung ; The jolly god in triumph comes; He shews his honest face. Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he comes. Drinking joys did first ordain; Sweet the pleasure; IV. Sooth'd with the sound, the king grew vain; And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain. The master saw the madness rise; His glowing cheeks, his ardent eyes; He Soft pity to infuse: sung Darius great and good, And weltering in his blood; With downcast looks the joyless victor sat, Revolving in his alter'd soul The various turns of chance below; V. The mighty master smiled, to see Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Take the good the gods provide thee. Who caused his care, And sigh'd and look'd, sigh'd and look'd, Sigh'd and look'd, and sigh'd again: At length, with love and wine at once oppress'd, The vanquish'd victor sunk upon her breast. VI. Now strike the golden lyre again. A louder yet, and yet a louder strain: And rouse him, like a rattling peal of thunder. Has raised up his head: As awaked from the dead, Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise: See the snakes that they rear, How they hiss in their hair, And the sparkles that flash from their eyes! Behold a ghastly band, Those are Grecian ghosts, that in battle were slain, Inglorious on the plain: Give the vengeance due To the valiant crew. Behold how they toss their torches on high, To light him to his prey, And, like another Helen, fired another Troy. VII. Thus, long ago, Ere heaving bellows learn'd to blow, Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire. Inventress of the vocal frame; And added length to solemn sounds, With nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown; He raised a mortal to the skies; APPENDIX. CHAP. I.—OF DERIVATION. Derivation is a species of Etymology, which explains the various methods by which those derivative words that are not formed by mere grammatical inflections, are deduced from their primitives. Most of those words which are regarded as primitives in English, may be traced to ulterior sources, and many of them are found to be compounds or derivatives in other languages. A knowledge of the Saxon, Latin, Greek, French, Italian, and Spanish languages, will throw much light on this subject. But as the learner is supposed to be unacquainted with those languages, we shall not go beyond the precincts of our own; except to shew him the origin and primitive import of some of our definitive and connecting particles, and to explain the prefixes and terminations which are frequently employed to form English derivatives. The pupil who may be desirous of following out this interesting investigation, will find an ample fund of knowledge upon the subject in Horne Tooke's "Diversions of Purley." The subjoined alphabet is an explanation of the Saxon letters employed in the following derivations: DERIVATION OF THE ARTICLES. 1. According to Horne Tooke, The is the Saxon de, from Sean, to take; and is nearly equivalent in meaning to that or those. 2. An is the Saxon en, ane, an, One; and by dropping n before a consonant becomes a. DERIVATION OF NOUNS. In English, Nouns are derived from nouns, from adjectives, from verbs, or from participles. I. Nouns are derived from nouns : 1. By adding ship, dom, rick, wick, or, ate, hood, or head: as, fellow, fellowship; king, kingdom; bishop, bishoprick; bailiff, bailiwick; senate, |