"None [else are] so desperately evill, as they that may bee good and will not or have beene good and are not."-Rev. John Rogers, 1620. "A Carpenter finds his work as hee left it, but a Minister shall find his sett back. You need preach continually." "Here whilom ligg'd th' Esopus of his age, "It was a fountain of Nepenthe rare, ."-Thomson. Whence, as Dan Homer sings, huge pleasaunce grew.”—Id. II.—Figures of Etymology. Bend 'gainst the steepy hill thy breast, Burst down like torrent from its crest.-Scott. 'Tis mine to teach th' inactive hand to reap Kind nature's bounties, o'er the globe diffus'd.-Dyer. Alas! alas! how impotently true Th' aerial pencil forms the scene anew. Here a deformed monster joy'd to won, Which on fell rancour ever was ybent.-Lloyd. Withouten trump was proclamation made.-Thomson. Let fall adown his silver beard some tears. "Certes," quoth he, "it is not e'en in grace. T' undo the past and eke your broken years."—Id. Vain tamp'ring has but foster'd his disease; 'Tis desp'rate, and he sleeps the sleep of death.Cowper. I have a pain upon my forehead here Why that's with watching; 'twill away again.-Shakspeare. I'll to the woods, among the happier brutes; Come, let's away; hark! the shrill horn resounds.-Smith. What prayer and supplication soever be made.-Bible. By the grace of God we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you ward.-Id. III.-Figures of Syntax. ELLIPSIS. And now he faintly kens the bounding fawn, The cottage curs at [-] early pilgrim bark.-Id. Our most important [-] are our earliest years.—Cowper. To earn her aid, with fix'd and anxious eye, He looks on nature's [-] and on fortune's course; True dignity is his, whose tranquil mind Virtue has rais'd above the things [-] below; Who, ev'ry hope and [-] fear to Heav'n resign'd, Shrinks not, though Fortune aim her deadliest blow.-Beattie. For longer in that paradise to dwell, The law [-] I gave to nature, him forbids.-Milton. So little mercy shows [-] who needs so much.-Cowper. Bliss is the same [-] in subject, as [—] in king; In [-] who obtain defence, and [—] who defend.-Pope. That tell you so-say rather, they [-] for him.-Cowper. Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, Mortals whose pleasures are their only care, First wish to be impos'd on, and then are [-].—Id. Vigor [-] from toil, from trouble patience grows.-Beattie. And meads, with life, and mirth, and beauty crown'd ?--Id. How dead the vegetable kingdom lies! Self-love and Reason to one end aspire, -]!-Thomson. Pain [-] their aversion, pleasure [-] their desire; But greedy that its object would devour, This [-] taste the honey, and not wound the flower.-Pope. PLEONASM. According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay; fury to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies.-Bible. My head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night. — Solomon's Song v., 2. Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the Lord my God.-Jer. xxxi., 18. Consider the lilies of the field how they grow.-Matt. vi., 28. He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.-2 Cor. x., 17. He too is witness, noblest of the train That waits on man, the flight-performing horse.- Cowper SYLLEPSIS. Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas; which is, by interpretation, a stone.--John i., 42. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: "Behold I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might."-Jer. xlix., 35. Behold I lay in Zion a stumbling-stone and rock of offense; and whoso ever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.—Rom. ix., 33. Thus Conscience pleads her cause within the breast, For those the race of Israel oft forsook Their living strength, and unfrequented left To bestial gods.-Milton. ENALLAGE. Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself Are much condemned to have an itching palm, Come, Philomelus; let us instant go, O'erturn his bow'rs, and lay his castle low.-Thomson. Then palaces shall rise; the joyful son Shall finish what the short-lived sire begun.-Pope. Such was that temple built by Solomon, Than whom none richer reign'd o'er Israel.-G. Brown. He spoke with fatal eagerness we burn, And quit the shores, undestin'd to return.-Day. HYPERBATON. Such resting found the sole of unblest feet.-Milton. That who advance his glory, not their own, Them he himself to glory will advance.-Milton. But apt the mind or fancy is to rove No quick reply to dubious questions make; IV. Figures of Rhetoric. SIMILE. Human greatness is short and transitory, as the odor of incense in the fire.-Dr. Johnson. Terrestial happiness is of short continuance: the brightness of the flame is wasting its fuel, the fragrant flower is passing away in its own odors.-Id. Thy nod is as the earthquake that shakes the mountains; and thy smile, as the dawn of the vernal day.-Id. Plants rais'd with tenderness are seldom strong; Man's coltish disposition asks the thong; And without discipline, the fav'rite child, Like a neglected forester, runs wild. — Cowper. METAPHOR. Cathmon, thy name is a pleasant gale.-Ossian. Rolled into himself he flew, wide on the bosom of winds. The old oak felt his departure, and shook its whistling head. - Id. Carazan gradually lost the inclination to do good, as he acquired the power; and as the hand of time scattered snow upon his head, the freezing influence extended to his bosom.-Hawkesworth. The sun grew weary of gilding the palaces of Morad; the clouds of sorrow gathered round his head; and the tempest of hatred roared about his dwelling. -Dr. Johnson. The tree of knowledge, blasted by disputes, Produces sapless leaves instead of fruits. -Denham. "But what think ye ?-A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, 'Son, go work to-day in my vineyard.' He answered and said, 'I will not'; but afterward he repented, and went. And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, 'I go, sir:' and went not. Whether of them twain did the will of his father?" They say unto him, "The first."-Matt. xxi., 28. METONYMY. Swifter than a whirlwind, flies the leaden death.-Hervey. "Be all the dead forgot," said Foldath's bursting wrath. fail in the field?"-Ossian. "Did not I Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke.-Gray. Firm in his love, resistless in his hate, His arm is conquest, and his frown is fate.-Day. At length the world, renew'd by calm repose, Was strong for toil; the dappled morn arose.-Parnell. Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood!—Pope. SYNECDOCHE. 'Twas then his threshold first receiv'd a guest.—Parnell. Whose feet came wand'ring o'er the nightly dew.-Id. Now from the virgin's cheek a fresher bloom Shoots, less and less, the live carnation round. - Thomson. HYPERBOLE. I saw their chief, tall as a rock of ice; his spear, the blasted fir; his shield, the rising moon; he sat on the shore, like a cloud of mist on the hill. Ossian. At which the universal host up sent A shout that tore Hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night.-Milton. Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red.-Shakspeare. Endless tears flow down in streams.-Swift. VISION. How mighty is their defense who reverently trust in the arm of God! How powerfully do they contend who fight with lawful weapons! Hark! 'tis the voice of eloquence, pouring forth the living energies of the soul; pleading, with generous indignation, the cause of injured humanity against lawless might, and reading the awful destiny that awaits the oppressor!-I see the stern countenance of despotism overawed! I see the eye fallen that kindled the elements of war! I see the brow relaxed that scowled defiance at hostile thousands! I see the knees tremble that trod with firmness the embattled field! Fear has entered that heart which ambition had betrayed into violence! The |