LESSON XXXIII. ANALOGY. The word Analogy means resemblance; and it is taken as the title of this lesson to represent the principle stated in the preface of this book, founded on the faculty of imitation. In connection with some colloquial sentence, another of less obvious import is given, requiring the same modulations and inflections of the voice. The sentences are printed side by side, and separated by a line. The pupil will read both sentences in the same manner, with the same modulation, tone, emphasis, and expression. The simple or colloquial sentence is called the model, and the more difficult one the analogical sentence. ANALOGICAL SENTENCES. 639. Why looks your Grace so heavily to-day? 640. Go show your slaves how choleric you are, and bid your bondmen tremble. 641. Son of night, retire: call thy winds and fly. Why dost thou come to my presence with thy shadowy arms? Do I fear thy gloomy form, dismal spirit of Loda? Weak is thy shield of clouds: feeble is that meteor thy sword. 642. I'd rather be a dog, and bay the moon, than such a Roman. 643. Do you pretend to sit as high on Olympus as thony? Did you read as Hercules? Did you kill the correctly, speak as loudly, or behave as well as he?* 644. Are you the boy of whose good conduct I have heard so much? 645. Have you not misemployed your time, wasted your talents, and passed your life in idleness and vice? 646. Who is that standing up in his place, with his hat on, and his books under his arm? 647. Did he recite his lesson correctly, read audibly, and appear to understand what he read? 648. Is that a map which you have before you, with the leaves blotted with ink. 649. Henry was careless, thoughtless, heedless, and inattentive. 650. Oh how can you destroy those beautiful things which your father procured for you!-that beautiful top, -those polished marbles, Nemæan lion, the Erymanthian boar, the Lernean Stymphalian serpent, or birds? 644. Art thou the Thracian robber, of whose exploits I have heard so much. 645. Hast thou not set at defiance my authority, violated the public peace, and passed thy life in injuring the persons and properties of thy fellow subjects? 646. Whom are they ushering from the world with all this pageantry and long parade of death? 647. Was his wealth stored fraudfully, the spoil of orphans wronged, and widows who have none to plead their rights. 648. Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle towards my hand? 648. Will you say that your time is your own, and that you have a right to employ it in the manner you please? 649. This is partial, unjust, uncharitable, iniqui tous. 650. Oh how canst thou renounce the boundless store of charms that nature to her votary yields !-the warbling woodland, the resound * Some of the sentences in this lesson may be found in previous parts of the book, see page 13, No. 128, &c. that excellent ball,-and that | ing shore, the pomp of beautifully painted kite, groves, the garniture of oh how can you destroy them and expect that he will buy you new ones.* fields; all that the genial ray of moruing gilds, and all that echoes to the song of even, all that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, and all the dread magnificence of heaven, oh how canst thou renounce and hope to be forgiven? LESSON XXXIV. THE SLUR. The Slur is the name given to such a management of the voice as is opposed to emphasis. When a word or part of a sentence is emphasized, it is to be pronounced with a louder and more forcible effort of the voice, and it is frequently to be prolonged. But when a sentence or part of a sentence is SLURRED, it is to be read like a parenthesis,† in an altered tone of voice, more rapidly, and not so forcibly, and with all the words pronounced nearly alike.‡ *The principle involved in this lesson will be found by the teacher a useful auxiliary in leading the pupil to the correct enunciation of difficult sentences. It is deemed unnecessary to extend the lesson by numerous models or examples of analogy. The teacher will find it easy to form models for the pupil in his exercises in reading; and if the experience of the author may be adduced in proof of the utility and efficacy of the principle, he has little doubt that it will be acknowledged as a valuable aid in teaching the Art of Reading.. † See page 28, Lesson 16. On the management of the Slur, much of the beauty and propriety of enunciation depends; especially in all sentences in which parentheses abound. How much soever a sentence may be cumbered with explanatory details, or interrupted and obscured by parentheses and unimportant adjuncts, the reader, by a proper management of the Slur, can always bring forward the most important particulars into a strong light, and throw the rest into shade; thereby entirely changing the character of the sentence, and making it appear lucid, strong, and expressive. The parts which are to be SLURRED in this lesson are printed in Italic letters, and the words on which emphatic force is to be bestowed are printed in capitals, as in Lesson 24, page 55. 651. Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more By Sinel's death, I know I am thane of Glamis; but how of Cawdor? The thane of Cawdor lives, a prosperous gentleman; and to be King stands not within the prospect of belief, no more than to be Cawdor. Say from WHENCE you owe this strange intelligence; or WHY upon this blasted heath you stop our way with such prophetic greeting. 652. But let me ask, by WHAT RIGHT do you involve yourself in this multiplicity of cares? WHY do you weave around you this web of occupation, and then complain that you cannot break it. 653. And when the prodigal son came to himself he said, "How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger. I will arise and GO to my father, and will say unto him Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son - make me as one of thy hired servants. And he arose, and was coming to his father; but while he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. And the son SAID unto him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.* 654. When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples, he left Judea, and departed again into Galilee. ye 655. Search the Scriptures, for in them ye think have eternal life, and they are they which testify of me. 656. STRANGER, if thou hast learnt a truth which needs experience more than reason, that the world is full of guilt and misery, and hast known enough of all its sorrows, crimes, and cares, to tire thee of it, ENTER THIS WILD WOOD, and view the haunts of nature. *This passage has been previously related, and all similar repetitions of what has been previously mentioned are to be slurred, unless there is particular reason for emphasizing them. 657. The calm shade shall bring a KINDRED calm, and the sweet breeze, that makes the green leaves dance, shall waft a balm to thy sick heart. 658. The massy rocks themselves, the old and ponderous trunks of ponderous trees, that lead from knoll to knoll, a causey rude, or bridge, the sunken brook, and their dark roots with all their earth upon them, TWISTING HIGH, breathe fixed tranquillity. 659. The RIVULET sends forth glad sounds, and tripping o'er its bed of pebbly sands, or leaping down the rocks, seems with continuous laughter to rejoice in its own being. 660. Therefore said they unto him, now were thine eyes OPENED? He answered and said, A man that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said unto me, Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash and I went and washed, and I received sight. ******** Then again the PHARISEES asked him how he had received his sight. He said unto THEM, He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed and do see. ** 661. And oft he traced the uplands, TO SURVEY, when o'er the sky advanced the kindling dawn, the CRIMSON CLOUD, BLUE MAIN, and MOUNTAIN GRAY, and LAKE dim gleaming on the smoky lawn: - far - far to the west, the long, long VALE withdrawn, where twilight loves to linger for a while; and now he faintly kens the bounding FAWN, and VILLAGER, abroad at early toil. But lo! the SUN appears! and HEAVEN, EARTH, OCEAN SMILE. 662. Oh God! be thou a God, and spare while yet 'tis time! Renew not Adam's fall:- Mankind were then but twain; but they are numerous now as are the waves, and the tremendous rain, whose drops shall be less thick than would their graves, were graves permitted to the sons of Cain. 663. Mountains interposed, make enemies of nations, who had else like kindred drops been mingled into one. 664. No! dear as freedom is, and in my heart's just estimation prized above all price, I would much rather be myself the slave, and wear the bonds, than fasten them on him. 665. 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