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CHAPTER XII.-MISCELLANEOUS EXERCISES FOR ANALYSIS.

EXERCISE 51.
A.

1. They to pity turned their former rage. 2. The republic gloried in her generous policy. 3. I left her without a reply. 4. Without their aid assurance is there none. 5. The skies spun like a mighty wheel. 6. My ramble finished, I returned. 7. Yon murky cloud is foul with rain. 8. The gloomy night is gathering fast. 9. The hunter now has left the moor. 10. Chill runs my blood to hear it rave. 11. The smiling Spring comes in rejoicing. 12. I wander not to seek for more. 13. Me didst thou constitute a priest of thine. 14. They spoil her of her jewels dear. 15. She reigns a goddess now among the saints. 16. I can give thee but a song. 17. Trust not to rotten planks. 18. Nature teaches beasts to know their friends. 19. These things to hear would Desdemona seriously incline. 20. Pale and erect he stood. 21. Tell Fortune of her blindness. 22. She is looking for something. 23. The laws of Spain appoint me for his heir. 24. Sure, thou wouldst prove a soldier. 25. The castle is surrounded with chestnut trees. 26. The entrance to the harbour is guarded by a battery. 27. I came to see your father's funeral. 28. He saw the high Church towers rising up in the morning sky. 29. The little children flocking came. 30. About thirty-two years before that event, the emperor Severus returning from an eastern expedition, halted in Thrace, to celebrate, with military games, the birthday of his younger son Geta.

B.

1. I paused to mark the child. 2. Keen blows the northern wind. 3. I love the sport too well to spoil it wilfully. 4. Perhaps ye are too happy to be glad. 5. He found it no easy matter to bring the harp to harmony. 6. The minister, far from pitying his favourite, laughed at the adventure. 7. The stout friar himself avoided setting foot on the raft. 8. The air was filled with clashing of arms. 9. The travellers had now reached the verge of the wooded country. 10. I feel myself otherwise inclined. 11. He had the courage to encounter danger. 12. Let us see the keeper's bounty without delay. 13. I shall find the way of multiplying your most bounteous gift. 14. Richard rejoiced at having silenced his counsellor. 15. Front-de-Boeuf preferred denying the virtue of the medicine to paying the expense of the physician. 16. They found her dead on her sorry couch. 17. I die without dishonour. 18. Here justice has a field of triumph. 19. He would not go without his father's word. 20. Jerusalem lies near the summit of a broad mountain ridge. 21. I looked upon the rotting sea. 22. Full kneedeep lies the winter snow. 23. Thou bringest a solemn image to my heart. 24. The monk made a sign with his withered hand. 25. From all the angelic ranks goes forth a groan. 26. Faith builds a bridge from this world to the next. 27. Below us we could see the dark tower of the church, gleaming grey on the one side. 28. You are now within

a foot of the extreme verge. 29. O reader! hast thou ever stood to see the holly tree? 30. The Persian nobles received from the king's bounty lands and houses, on the condition of their service in war.

C.

1. Methinks the season of my prosperity passed away very soon. 2. The people who stood around were so astonished at his wonderful dexterity, that they could not even give vent to their surprise in their usual clamour. 3. But yesterday the word of Cæsar might have stood against the world: now lies he there, and none so poor to do him reverence. 4. Generations pass while some trees stand, and old families last not three oaks. 5. Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana he is almost lost that built it. 6. To write and speak correctly gives a grace and gains a favourable attention to what one has to say. 7. It is a good practice to read with pen in hand, marking what is liked or doubted. 8. He who had spoken before, inquired whether Madame thought it would be long before Monsieur arrived. 9. When Maria had come a little to herself, I asked her if she remembered a pale, thin person of a man, who had sat down betwixt her and her goat about two years before. 10. They tell me it is my birthday. 11. I think that he is honest. 12. He knows your eye would search his heart. 13. I think I see a second range of towers. 14. So I your presence may enjoy, no toil I will refuse. 15. Scarcely had he turned the corner of the house, when a rosy light-haired face looked in at the door. 16. Where a will to quarrel is, there is a way. 17. She withdraws to her desk (the cloth once removed), and seems busy writing; nevertheless loses no word. 18. Let whose head soever be getting giddy, it is not this brave woman's. 19. The Struldbruggs of one age do not understand those of another; and thus they lie under the disadvantage of living like foreigners in their own country. 20. Now is my brother dead, wherefore I weep. 21. You have three daughters, namely, Pride, Luxury, and Avarice. 22. Grenadier sabres stir in the scabbard, and thereupon a sharp shriek rises. 23. His magnificence was to be limited not only by utility but by the want of funds. 24. I saw all the manner how the boar him slew. 25. Just as the clock struck five, we were on the high road. 26. Now you have won the treasure, 'tis my request that you will leave me thus. 27. He took pleasure in his conversation, carried him in his company to the chase, and even disclosed to him his most secret thoughts. 28. My worthy friend, I am much pleased with your discourse, for that you seem to be so ingenuous. 29. Whatsoever his tongue might declare, his whole appearance denoted dissatisfaction. 30. Indeed, it is by faith alone that we can distinguish whether we are asleep or awake; because in our sleep we as strongly fancy ourselves to be waking as when we really are so.

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2. I cannot

1. Both man and woman wept when thou wert dead. choose but weep to see him. 3. Little is left to us but the air we breathe. 4. They were denied the exercise of arms except when it was

1 expedient to enrol them in the military service. 5. She seemed

partly to have understood his meaning, for she raised her hands as if to undo a blue ribbon which she wore around her neck. 6. After her husband's murder Matilda fled to Dunmow Priory, -for there her monument is still preserved. 7. I was curious to see if this writing so much extolled was better than my own. 8. The darkness which overspread the sky was so thick, that we could no longer distinguish each other. 9. It is the business of tragedy to exhibit the passions, that is, the weaknesses of men. 10. The higher we went up the country, the more pyramidal became the forms of even the mud houses of the modern people. 11. She would weep that her wild bees sang not to her. 12. Thou seek'st the greatness that will overwhelm thee. 13. The moment the sun peeped over the hill, the mist broke in the middle. 14. Though this be madness, yet there is method in it. 15. He remained immovable until my sketch was finished. 16. Tell me freely how you like my host. 17. Deeds do die, however nobly done. 18. I am nothing, if not critical. 19. The land was now clearly seen about two leagues distant; whereupon they took in sail, and lay to, waiting impatiently for the dawn. 20. Where'er he rests, he shakes from many a twig the pendent drops of ice. 21. Whether he would do wisely is another question. 22. Neither steel nor fire can eradicate the erroneous opinions of the mind. 23. As she uttered these words, the tears trickled down her cheeks. 24. He felt as though the light were a reproach. 25. The enemy having his country wasted, what by himself and what by his soldiers, findeth succour in no place. 26. The time when the messengers arrived was propitious. 27. I traversed the streets without any clear conception of where I was, or what I was doing. 28. You do take my life when you do take the means whereby I live. 29. There was crying in Granada when the sun was going down. 30. Though this principle be true in things wherein nature is peremp tory (the reason whereof we cannot now stand to discuss), yet it is otherwise in things wherein nature admitteth a latitude.

E.

1. I'll teach my boy the sweetest things;

I'll teach him how the owlet sings.

2. I have breathed on the south, and the chestnut flowers

By thousands have burst from the forest-bowers.

3. The champions had come from their fields of war,

Over the crests of the billows far:

They had brought back the spoils of a hundred shores,
Where the deep had foamed to their flashing oars.

4. All things that love the sun are out of doors;
The sky rejoices in the morning's birth;

The grass is bright with rain-drops; on the moors
The hare is running races in her mirth;
And with her feet she from the plashy earth
Raises a mist; which, glittering in the sun,
Runs with her all the way, wherever she doth run.
5. Whither, 'midst falling dew,

While glow the heavens with the last steps of day,
Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue

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