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"It must be so;--Plato, thou reason'st well"
--CATO: Enfield, p. 321.
"Slow rises worth by poverty depressed."
--Wells's Gram., Late Ed., p. 211.
"Rapt into future times, the bard begun."
--POPE.--Ib., p. 165.
"Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens
To wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy
But to confront the visage of offence?"
--Shak., Hamlet.
"Look! in this place ran Cassius' dagger through."
--Id., J. Cæsar.
"And when they list, their lean and flashy songs
Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw."
--Milton, Lycidas.
"Did not great Julius bleed for justice' sake?"
--Dodd and Shak. cor.
"May I express thee' unblam'd? since God is light"
--Milton, B. iii, l. 3.
"Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream?"
--Id., B. iii, l. 7.
"Republics, kingdoms, empires, may decay;
Great princes, heroes, sages, sink to nought."
--Peirce or La-Rue cor.
"Thou bringst, gay creature as thou art,
A solemn image to my heart."
--Hallock cor.
"Know then thyself, presume not God to scan;
The proper study of mankind is Man."
--Pope, on Man, Ep. ii, l. 1.
"Raised on pilasters high of burnished gold."
--Dr. S. Butler cor.
"Love in Adalgise' breast has fixed his sting."
--Id.
"Thirty days each have September,
April, June, and old November;
Each of the rest has thirty-one,
Bating February alone,
Which has twenty-eight in fine,
Till leap-year gives it twenty-nine."
--Dean Colet cor.
LESSON II.--RHYTHM RESTORED.
"'Twas not the fame of what he once had been,
Or tales in records old and annals seen."
--Rowe cor.
"And Asia now and Afric are explored
For high-priced dainties and the citron board."
--Rowe cor.
"Who knows not how the trembling judge beheld
The peaceful court with arm~ed legions fill'd?"
--Rowe cor.
"With thee the Scythian wilds we'll wander o'er,
With thee the burning Libyan sands explore."
--Rowe cor.
"Hasty and headlong, different paths they tread,
As impulse blind and wild distraction lead."
--Rowe cor.
"But Fate reserv'd him to perform its doom,
And be the minister of wrath to Rome."
--Rowe cor.
"Thus spoke the youth. When Cato thus express'd
The sacred counsels of his inmost breast."
--Rowe cor.
"These were the rigid manners of the man,
This was the stubborn course in which they ran;
The golden mean unchanging to pursue,
Constant to keep the purpos'd end in view."
--Rowe cor.
"What greater grief can on a Roman seize,
Than to be forced to live on terms like these!"
--Rowe cor.
"He views the naked town with joyful eyes,
While from his rage an arm~ed people flies."
--Rowe cor.
"For planks and beams, he ravages the wood,
And the tough oak extends across the flood."
--Rowe cor.
"A narrow pass the horn~ed mole divides.
Narrow as that where strong Euripus' tides
Beat on Euboean Chalcis' rocky sides."
--Rowe cor.
"No force, no fears their hands unarm~ed bear,"--or,
"No force, no fears their hands unarm'd now bear,
But looks of peace and gentleness they wear."
--Rowe cor.
"The ready warriors all aboard them ride,
And wait return of the retiring tide."
--Rowe cor.
"He saw those troops that long had faithful stood,
Friends to his cause, and enemies to good,
Grown weary of their chief, and satiate with blood."
--Rowe cor.
END OF THE KEY.
