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1. That he is mad, 'tis true: 'tis true, 'tis pity; And pity 'tis, 'tis true.-Shakespeare.

2. There is a tide in the affairs of men,

Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life

Is bound in shallows and in miseries.-Shakespeare.

3. Lowland trees may lean to this side and that, though it is but a meadow breeze that bends them, or a bank of cowslips from which their trunks lean aslope; but let storm and avalanche do their worst, and let the pine find only a ledge of vertical precipice to cling to, it will nevertheless grow straight.-Ruskin.

4. The wise ministers and brave warriors who flourished during her reign, share the praise of her success; but instead of lessening the applause due to her, they make great addition to it.— Hume.

5. If then his providence,

Out of our evil seek to bring forth good,

Our labour must be to pervert that end,

And out of good still to find means of ill.-Milton.

6. The whole winged insect tribe, it is probable, are equally intent upon their proper enjoyments; and under every variety of constitution gratified, and perhaps equally gratified, by the offices which the author of their nature has assigned to them.Paley.

7. Shall I have the thought to think on this;

And shall I lack the thought that such a thing,

To chance, would make me sad.-Shakespeare.

8. If God is pleased to spare me, I trust I shall often meet with you in person, even on this side of the grave; but, if not, let us often meet in prayer at the mercy-seat of God.-Chalmers.

9. Freedom, driven from every spot on the Continent, has sought an asylum in a country which she always chose for her favourite abode; but she is pursued even here, and threatened with destruction.-Hall.

10. The ships were in extreme peril; for the river was low, and the only navigable channel ran very near to the left bank, where the headquarters of the enemy had been fixed; and where the batteries were most numerous, Leake performed his duty with a skill and spirit worthy his noble profession, exposed his frigate to cover the merchantmen, and used his guns with great effect.-Macaulay.

Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been
So clear in his great office, that his virtues

Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against
The deep damnation of his taking off;

And pity, like a naked, new-born babe,

Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim, horsed
Upon the sightless couriers of the air,

Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye,

That tears shall drown the wind.-Shakespeare.

12. Seeing that truth consisteth in the right ordering of names in our affirmations, a man that seeketh precise truth had need to remember what every name he useth stands for, and to place it accordingly, or else he will find himself entangled in words, as a bird in lime-twigs, the more he struggles, the more belimed; and, therefore, in geometry, which is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind, men begin at settling the significations of their words; which settling of significations they call definitions, and place them in the beginning of their reckoning.—Hobbes.

Exercise 21.

Miscellaneous Sentences for Analysis; Simple, Complex, and Compound.

1. Freely we serve, because we freely love.-Milton. 2. No mate, no comrade, Lucy knew.-Wordsworth. 3. The paths of glory lead but to the grave.-Gray.

4. Cowards die many times before their deaths;

The valiant never taste of death but once.- -Shakespeare.

5. Time was when clothing, sumptuous or for use,

Save their own painted skins, our sires had none.—Cowper.

6. Knocking gently at the cottage door, it was opened without loss of time.-Dickens.

7. There's not a joy the world can give

Like that it takes away.-Byron.

8. May still this island be call'd fortunate.-Jonson.

9. Our bugles sang truce, for the night-cloud had lowered, And sentinel stars kept their watch in the sky.-Campbell.

10. How came she by that light?—Shakespeare.

11. We take no note of time

But from its loss; to give it then a tongue
Is wise in man.— -Young.

12. A man may read a sermon, the best and most passionate that ever man preached, if he shall but enter into the sepulchres of kings. -Taylor.

13. If Lear is distinguished by the greatest depth of passion, Hamlet is the most remarkable for the ingenuity, originality, and unstudied development of character.-Hazlitt.

14. To know, and knowing worship, God aright,

Is yet more kingly.-Milton.

15. It is of importance, not only that we should do good, but that we should do it in the best manner.-Sydney Smith.

16. Good-nature and good sense must ever join; To err is human; to forgive, divine.-Pope.

17. You forget yourself, to hedge me in.-Shakespeare.

18. Faintly as tolls the evening chime,

Our voices keep tune, and our oars keep time.-Moore. 19. Thus when, with meats and drinks, they had sufficed, Not burdened, nature, sudden mind arose

In Adam not to let the occasion pass,

Given him by this great conference, to know
Of things above this world.-Milton.

20. Then let us say you are sad

Because you are not merry.-Shakespeare.

21. And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tent-makers.English Bible.

22. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.-Shakespeare.

23. To form an adequate idea of the duties of this crisis, it will be necessary to raise your minds to a level with your station.Hall.

24. Thy tooth is not so keen,

Because thou art not seen,

Although thy breath be rude.-Shakespeare.

25. Murder, though it have no tongue, will speak
With most miraculous organ.-Shakespeare.

26. The applause of listening senates to command,
The threats of pain and ruin to despise,
To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land,
And read their history in a nation's eyes,
Their lot forbade.— Gray.

27. I am the more at ease in Sir Roger's family, because it consists of sober, staid persons; for as the knight is the best master in the world, he seldom changes his servants; and as he is beloved by all about him, his servants never care for leaving him: by this means his domestics are all in years, and grown old with their master.-Addison.

28. Ill fared it then with Roderick Dhu,
That on the field his targe he threw,
Whose brazen studs and tough bull-hide
Had death so often dashed aside;

For, trained abroad his arms to wield,

Fitz-James's blade was sword and shield.-Scott.

29. These eyes, that now are dimm'd with death's black veil, Have been as piercing as the mid-day sun

30.

To search the secret treasures of the world.-Shakespeare.

From that bleak tenement

He, many an evening, to his distant home

In solitude returning, saw the hills

Grow larger in the darkness.—Wordsworth.

31. If nothing may be published but what civil authority shall have previously approved, poor must always be the standard of truth; if every dreamer of innovations may propagate his projects, there can be no settlement; if every murmurer at government may diffuse discontent, there can be no peace; and if every sceptic in theology may teach his follies, there can be no religion.— Johnson.

32. The remedy against these evils is to punish the authors; for it is yet allowed that every society may punish, though not prevent, the publication of opinions which that society shall think pernicious; but this punishment, though it may crush the author, promotes the book; and it seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with our doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief.—Johnson.

33. It fortunëd out of the thickest wood

A ramping lion rushëd suddenly,
Hunting full greedy after salvage blood:
Soon as the royal virgin he did spy,
With gaping mouth at her ran greedily,
To have at once devoured her tender corse:
But to the prey whenas he drew more nigh,
His bloody rage assuaged with remorse,

And, with the sight amazed, forgat his furious force.-Spenser.

34. It is reported that Charles, after a full hearing of the debates concerning Scottish affairs, said, "I perceive that Lauderdale has been guilty of many bad things against the people of Scotland; but I cannot find that he has acted anything contrary to my interest:" a sentiment unworthy of a sovereign.Hume.

35. He that is no fool, but can consider wisely, if he be in love with this world, we need not despair but that a witty man might reconcile him with tortures, and make him think charitably of the rack, and be brought to dwell with vipers and dragons, and entertain his guests with the shrieks of mandrakes, cats, and screech-owls, with the filing of iron, and the harshness of rending of silk, or to admire the harmony that is made by a herd of evening wolves, when they miss their draught of blood in their midnight revels.-Taylor.

36. But nathëless, while I have time and space,
Or that I further in this talë pace,
Methinketh it accordant to reason,
To tellen you allë the condition

Of each of them, so as it seemëd me,

And which they weren, and of what degree;

And eke in what array, that they were in.-Chaucer.