6. Do you hear, Eschines? It pertains only to the gods to control fortune and command success. To them the power of assuring victory to armies is ascribed, not to the statesman, but to the gods. Wherefore, then, execrable wretch, wherefore upbraid me with what has happened? Why denounce against me, what may the just gods reserve for the heads of you and yours.! 7. Oh, what a rogue and peasant slave am I! A broken voice, and his whole function suiting What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her? 8. The weakest reasoners are always the most positive in debate; and the cause is obvious; for those are unavoidably driven to maintain their pretensions by violence, who want arguments and reasons to prove that they are in the right. 9. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be, by.. Christian.. example? Why, revenge! 10. And me, too - me, but the other day, they would have borne in triumph; and now they cry in the streets, THE GREAT TREASON OF THE COUNT OF MIRABEAU !EI I needed not this lesson to teach me, how short the distance from the Capitol to the Tarpeian Rock! But the man who battles for reason, for country, does not so easily admit that he is vanquished. He who has the consciousness that he deserves well of that country, and, above all, that he is still able to serve her; who disdains a vain celebrity, and prizes veritable glory above the successes of the day; who would speak the truth, and labor for the public weal, independently of the fluctuations of popular opinion, such a man carries in his own breast the recompense of his services, the solace of his pains, the reward of his dangers. The harvest he looks for the destiny, the only destiny, to which he aspires — is that of his good name; and for that he is content to trust to time, ruptible judge, who dispenses justice to all! to time, that incor 11. Gentlemen, you all remember the instance of that Roman, who, to save his country from a dangerous conspiracy, had been constrained to overstep the powers conferred on him by the laws. A captious Trib'une exacted of him the oath that he had respected those laws; hoping, by this insidious demand, to drive the Consul to the alternative of perjury or of an embarrassing avowal. "Swear," said the Tribune, "swear that you have observed the laws." "I swear," replied the great man, "I swear that I have saved the Republic." tlemen, I swear that you have saved France! 12. It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul! And smooth as monumental al abaster. Gen Yet she must die, else she 'll betray more men. If I quench thee, thou flaming minister, I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me; but once put out thy light, 13. Hold thy desperate hand: Art thou a man? thy form cries out, thou art ; Thou hast amazed me: by my holy order, I thought thy disposition better tempered. 14. Macbeth. If it were done, when 't is done, then 't were well It were done quickly. If the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, But here upon this bank and shoal of time, - 60. Exercises in Low Pitch. (See § 41.) 1. Tread softly! bow the head; In reverent silence bow; No passing bell doth toll, Yet an immortal soul Is passing now. 2. Chillon! E thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar, — for 't was trod Worn as if thy cold pavements were a sod, By Bonnivard! For they appeal from tyranny to God. 3. Oh! now forever 4. Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content! Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war! King John. I had a thing to say,· but let it go; The sun is in the heaven, and the proud day, Attended with the pleasures of the world, Is all too wanton and too full of gauds To give me audience. If the midnight bell Did, with his iron tongue and brazen mouth, Sound One unto the drowsy race of night: If this same were a churchyard where we stand, And thou possessed with a thousand wrongs; Or if that thou couldst see me . . . without eyes, Hear me... without thine ears, and make reply Without a tongue, using conceit alone, Without eyes, ears, and harmful sound of words, Then, in despite of broad-eyed, watchful day, I would into thy bosom pour my thoughts. But, ah! I will not, yet I love thee well; And, by my troth, I think thou lov'st me well! . I have almost forgot the taste of fears. The time has been, my senses would have cooled rouse and stir As life were in 't: I have supped full with horrors. Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once start me. 6. I had a dream, which was not all a dream : The bright sun was extinguished; and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air. 7. Ah! Gentlemen, that was a dreadful mistake! Such a secret can be safe nowhere. The whole creation of God has neither nook nor corner where the guilty can bestow it, and say it is safe. 8. Description of Satan. He above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Shorn of his beams; or from behind the moon, On half the nations, and with fear of change Low PITCH, WITH TRANSITIONS. 9. In these deep solitudes and awful cells, Dear, fatal name! rest ever unrevealed, the name appears wash it out, my tears! 10. There lies a sleeping city. God of dreams! What an unreäl and fantastic world Is going on below! |