9. To reign is worth ambition, though in hell:

Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.- Milton.

10. Stone walls do not a prison make,

Nor iron bars a cage.-Lovelace.

11. Nor did they not perceive the evil plight

In which they were, nor the fierce pains not feel.-Milton.

12. Nor is it possible, without letters, for any man to become excellently wise, or, unless his memory be hurt by disease or ill constitution of organs, excellently foolish.-Hobbes.

Exercise 20.

Compound Sentences for Analysis, with Notation.
Example.

"Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just;
And he but naked, though locked up in steel,

Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted."-Shakespeare.

First Step.-Supplying of Ellipses.

Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just; and he is but naked, though he be locked up in steel, whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.

Second Step.-Division into Clauses.

A. He is thrice armed

a1

That hath his quarrel just;

B. And he is but naked

1b1. Whose conscience is corrupted with injustice,
261. Though he be locked up in steel.

Third Step.-Tabular Analysis.

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(adv. conces.)

A.

1. This at first I opposed stoutly; but it was as stoutly defended.— Goldsmith.

2. God made the country, and man made the town.-Cowper.

3. The words I utter, let none think flattery;

For they'll find them truth.-Shakespeare.

4. We have fished up very little gold, that I can learn; nor do we furnish the world with herrings as was expected.—Goldsmith.

5. I linger by my shingly bars,

I loiter round my cresses.-Tennyson.

6. A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases: it will never

Pass into nothingness.-Keats.

7. I was impatient to see it come upon the table; but when it came, I could scarce eat a mouthful: my tears choked me.Lamb.

8. He prayeth best who loveth best

9.

All things, both great and small;

For the dear God who loveth us,

He made and loveth all.- Coleridge.
Beware

Of entrance to a quarrel; but, being in,

Bear it that the opposer may beware of thee.-Shakespeare.

10. The sun had sunk behind the precipices, and all was gloom along their bases, and double gloom in their caves; but their rugged brows still caught the red glare of evening.-Hugh Miller.

11. And o'er him bent his sire, and never raised

His eyes from off his face, but wiped the foam

From his pale lips, and ever on hím gazed.—Byron.

12. Pope was not content to satisfy, he desired to excel; and therefore always endeavoured to do his best: he did not court the candour, but dared the judgment, of his reader; and expecting no indulgence from others, he showed none to himself.-Johnson.

B.

1. A little learning is a dangerous thing;

Drink deep, or taste not, the Pierian spring.—Pope.

2. It was not imprisonment for a tide, to which we had consigned ourselves: it was imprisonment for a week.-Hugh Miller.

3. Men must work, and women must weep,

Though storms be sudden, and waters deep,
And the harbour bar be moaning.-Kingsley.

4. There were sudden partings, such as press

The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs,
Which ne'er might be repeated.—Byron.

5. I was this morning surprised with a great knocking at the door; when my landlady's daughter came up to me, and told me that there was a man below desired to speak with me.-Addison.

6. What here we call our life is such,

So little to be loved, and thou so much,

That I should ill requite thee to constrain

Thy unbound spirit into bonds again.— Cowper.

7. Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,

Is our destined end or way;

But to act, that each to-morrow

Find us farther than to-day.-Longfellow.

8. In less than three hours all were ready, when we sprang into our saddles and rode away.-Atkinson.

9. He spoke; and, to confirm his words, out flew Millions of flaming swords.-Milton.

10. The sense of death is most in apprehension;
And the poor beetle that we tread upon,

In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great
As when a giant dies.-Shakespeare.

11. I once did lend my body for Bassanio's sake; and but for him to whom your husband gave the ring, I should now have been dead.-Lamb.

12. Duval repeated his determination to go on; but advised the others to return, lest his pale face should betray fear to the Indians, and they might take advantage of it.-W. Irving.

C.

1. That I have ta'en away this poor man's daughter,

It is most true; true, I have married her.-Shakespeare.

2. If you begin stealing a little, you will go on from little to much and soon become a regular thief; and then you will be hanged, or sent over seas; and, give me leave to tell you, transportation is no joke.-S. Smith.

3. Thou to me thy thoughts wast wont, I mine to thee

4.

Was wont to impart.-Milton.

If I were disposed to stir

Your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage,

I should do Brutus wrong, and Cassius wrong,

Who, you all know, are honourable men.-Shakespeare.

5. As I had some opinion of my son's prudence I was willing enough to intrust him with this commission; and the next morning I perceived his sisters mighty busy in fitting out Moses for the fair.- Goldsmith.

6. Ring out the grief that saps the mind,
For those that here we see no more;
Ring out the feud of rich and poor;
Ring in redress to all mankind.—Tennyson.
She thanked me,

7.

And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her,
I should but teach him how to tell my story,
And that would woo her.-Shakespeare.

8. But when he reached the room of state,
Where she with all her ladies sate,
Perchance he wished his boon denied;
For when to tune his harp he tried,
His trembling hand had lost the ease
Which marks security to please.-Scott.
What in me is dark,

9.

Illumine; what is low, raise and support;
That to the height of this great argument
I may assert eternal Providence,

And justify the ways of God to men.--Milton.

10. Whenever Antonio met Shylock on the Rialto (or Exchange), he used to reproach him with his usuries and hard dealings; which the Jew would bear with seeming patience, while he secretly meditated revenge.-Lamb.

11. 'Tis the mind that makes the body rich;

And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,

So honour peereth in the meanest habit.—Shakespeare.

12. Finding that nothing would satisfy him, I evaded his questions after the first scene or two; and in particular pleaded ignorance respecting the name of the fur whereof the coat was made.Dickens.

1.

D.

She never told her love;

But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud,

Feed on her damask cheek.-Shakespeare.

2. There was another coach that went along with us, in which I likewise observed that there were many secret jealousies, heartburnings and animosities; for when we joined companies at night, I could not but take notice that the passengers neglected their own company.-Addison.

3. Yet he who reigns within himself, and rules
Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king;
Which every wise and virtuous man attains;
And who attains not, ill aspires to rule

Cities of men, or headstrong multitudes.-Milton.

4. It is during the first five hours of daylight that nature seems literally to teem with life and motion; the air melodious with the voice of birds, the woods resounding with the simmering hum of insects, and the earth replete with every form of living nature.-Emerson Tennent.

5. When we had placed him in his coach, with myself at his left hand, the captain before him, and his butler at the head of his footmen in the rear, we conveyed him in safety to the playhouse; where, after having marched up the entry in good order, the captain and I went in with him, and seated him betwixt us in the pit.-Addison.

6

"Though something I might plain," he said,

"Of cold respect to stranger guest,

Sent hither by your king's behest,
While in Tantallon's towers I staid;

Part we in friendship from your land,

And, noble earl, receive my hand."-Scott.

7. My sick heart shows that I must yield my body to the earth; And, by my fall, the conquest to my foe.-Shakespeare.

8. The winter was neither severe nor protracted, but, to the people of Cromarty, it was a season of much suffering; and, with the first month of spring, there came down upon them whole shoals of beggars from the upper part of the country, to implore that assistance which they were, alas! unable to render them; and to share with them in the spoils of the sea.-Hugh Miller.

9. Sir Roger obliged the waterman to give us the history of his right leg; and hearing that he had left it at La Hogue, with many particulars that passed in that glorious action, the knight, in the triumph of his heart, made several reflections on the greatness of the British nation.-Addison.

10.

All the world's a stage,

And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,

His acts being seven ages.-Shakespeare.

11. Charles deliberated long, and determined with coolness; but, having once fixed his plan, he adhered to it with inflexible obstinacy; and neither danger nor discouragement could turn him aside from the execution of it.-Robertson.

12. The sofa suits the gouty limb,

'Tis true; but gouty limb,

Though on a sofa, may I never feel:

For I have loved the rural walk, through lanes

Of grassy swarth, close cropped by nibbling sheep.-Cowper.