and by it the pupil may also be exercised in relation to the principles of Punctuation, Utterance, Analysis, or whatever else of Grammar, the examples contain.
LESSON I.—FIGURES OF ORTHOGRAPHY.
MIMESIS AND ARCHAISM.
"I ax'd you what you had to sell. I am fitting out a wessel for Wenice, loading her with warious keinds of prowisions, and wittualling her for a long woyage; and I want several undred weight of weal, wenison, &c., with plenty of inyons and winegar, for the preserwation of ealth."—Columbian Orator, p. 292.
"God bless you, and lie still quiet (says I) a bit longer, for my shister's afraid of ghosts, and would die on the spot with the fright, was she to see you come to life all on a sudden this way without the least preparation."—Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent, p. 143.
"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."—Id.
"Here whilom ligg'd th' Esopus of his age,
But call'd by Fame, in soul ypricked deep."—Thomson.
"It was a fountain of Nepenthe rare,
Whence, as Dan Homer sings, huge pleasaunce grew."—Id.
LESSON II.—FIGURES OF ETYMOLOGY.
APHÆRESIS, PROSTHESIS, SYNCOPE, APOCOPE, PARAGOGE, DIÆRESIS, SYNÆRESIS, AND TMESIS.
"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' aërial pencil forms the scene anew."—Cawthorne.
"Here a deformed monster joy'd to won,
Which on fell rancour ever was ybent."—Lloyd.
"Withouten trump was proclamation made."—Thomson.
"The gentle knight, who saw their rueful case,
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."—Ib.
LESSON III.—FIGURES OF SYNTAX.
FIGURE I.—ELLIPSIS.
"And now he faintly kens the bounding fawn,
And [--] villager [--] abroad at early toil."—Beattie.
"The cottage curs at [--] early pilgrim bark."—Id.
"'Tis granted, and no plainer truth appears,
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."—Akenside.
"For longer in that paradise to dwell,
The law [--] I gave to nature him forbids."—Milton.
