HII. Mark off into feet the lines of the 1st stanza, showing the syllables where the accent falls.

IV. Glebe, meads, crook, beguile, sultry, "sudden greens," "the barren wilderness shall smile."

V. Compare this translation with King James's version, and make note of the expression wherein the latter is stronger or more vivid than the former; also wherein the former is more systematic. Contrast the force of expression in “Though in the paths of death I trood” and “m

of differentiating (seeing the differences of things) becomes more accurate and complete.

For example: To the unthinking, all the books in a library seem much alike; but the observing reader soon learns that each individual book differs from every other; and, if he would give a clear description of any given book, he must call our attention not to what is common to all books, but to the points wherein this given book differs from the other books.

Or, in giving a clear idea of any character in history, the writer speaks not of such common traits and deeds as were shared with the many, but of those peculiar attributes and acts which distinguish him from all othersthose things which characterize him as an individual.

And so, to give a clear picture of any kind on any subject, the author must seize on the special points which individuate it.

A favorite means of making an idea more vivid and distinct (especially in poetry and eloquence) is by comparing it with something similar, but more familiar and striking. But the most distinctive way of expressing an idea is by contrasting it with its opposite.

THESE DISTINCTIVE POINTS OF GOOD THINKING AND

WRITING ARE THE IMPORTANT IDEAS WHICH IN ELOCUTION DEMAND SPECIAL EMPHASIS AND EXPRESSION.

But these ideas are innumerable; and how can we ever learn to read well the hundredth part of them?

By grouping similar ideas into one class; so that, when we learn to read understandingly a few representative ideas of any given class, we learn essentially how to read all ideas of that general kind.

This classification must be purely elocutionary. By "similar ideas," we mean such as have naturally similar vocal expression.

5.

Shalt thou retire alone, nor couldst thou wish
Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down
With patriarchs of the infant world—with kings,
The powerful of the earth-the wise, the good-
Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past,
All in one mighty sepulcher. The hills,
Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun-the vales
Stretching in pensive quietness between-
The venerable woods-rivers that move

In majesty, and the complaining brooks

That make the meadows green; and poured round all Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste

Are but the solemn decorations all

Of the great tomb of man.

The golden sun,

The planets, all the infinite host of heaven,
Are shining on the sad abodes of death,
Through the still lapse of ages. All that tread
The globe are but a handful to the tribes.
That slumber in its bosom. Take the wings
Of morning, and the Barcan desert pierce,
Or lose thyself in the continuous woods.
Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound
Save his own dashings-yet the dead are there;
And millions in thcse solitudes, since first

The flight of years began, have laid them down
In their last sleep-the dead reign there alone.

6. So shalt thou rest; and what if thou withdraw
In silence from the living, and no friend