15 But in that little is both rich and wise,] For wisdom is most riches; | fools therefore They are, | who fortune do by vows devize, | 18 Sith each unto himself his life may fortunize. | VIRTUE. 1 [Sweet day! so cool, so calm, so bright, 4 5 [Sweet rose !] whose hue, angry and brave, 8 Thy root is ever in its grave;| And thou must die. 9 [Sweet spring! full of sweet days and roses; 12 13 Only a sweet and virtuous soul, 16 Like season'd timber, never gives ;| 16. Most riches - Equiv. to the highest possession. 17. Devize - Propitiate by gifts. Used still in the sense of bequeath—as I will and devize. 18. Unto himself - Indirect Obj. Fortunize make fortunate. 1, 2, Nominative of address. 5. Adj. Sent. to Rose, with double Obj. 9. The Nom. of address. 10. Box, Appos, with Spring - Where sweets, &c. Adj. Sent. to box. 11. Ye have your closes-Subs. Sent. Obj. to shows. 14. Gives yields, decays. 15, 16. But then chiefly lives - Princip Sent. Advers. GREATNESS. 1 Look next on greatness; | say,] where greatness lies, ] No one looks backward, onward still he goes, | Yet ne'er looks forward further than his nose. 10 All sly slow things with circumspective eyes ;] Men in their loose unguarded hours they take, Not that themselves are wise, but others weak.] But grant] that those can conquer, these can cheat, ] 'Tis phrase absurd to call a villain great :| 15 Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave,] Is but the more a fool, the more a knave ;] Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains,] Like good Aurelius, let him reign, | or bleed 20 Like Socrates ;]-that man is great indeed.] 1. Where greatness lies-Subs. Sent. Obj. to say. 2. This line is the supposed answer to the question. The construction (supplying the ellipsis) is this-Where does it lie, unless it lies among the heroes and the wise? 3. The point is agreed-Sentence thrown in parenthetically. 4. Alexander the Great and Charles XII. 5. The verb is must be understood after the Subj. purpose. 7, 8. The sense is-Ambition always rushes onwards, and yet cannot see very far before it. 9. The Substantive verb is understood with alike. 10. Supply are after all. 13. Grant-Princip. Sent. Subj.=thou, understood. 14. To call a villain great-In Appos. with it (Gr. 71, Rem. 3). 15. He, understood, Anteced. to who; and Subj. to is in line 16. 16. The more-Adverbial adjunct. 18. Failing enlargement to Subj. who understood. 19. Let him reign-though he be a king. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, surnamed Philosophus, reigned A.D. 161-180. 20. That man is great indeed--Princip. Sent. to the last four lines BEREFT FRIENDSHIP. 1 I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, 4 That never knew the summer woods. | Nor,) what may count itself as blest, | I hold it true, whate'er befall; | SLEEP. I. 1 Of all the thoughts of God) that are 5, 6. The sense is-I do not esteem as of any value the mere gratifications of passion, where no moral feeling of divine law and personal responsibility is blended. 7. Enlargement of the Subject that. 8. To whom-Indirect Obj. 9. Subj. and Pred. do I envy understood. What may count itself as blestSubst. Sent. in Appos. with the heart. 12. Obj. to do I envy understood. Want begotten rest, i.e., any repose which results from defect and indolence. 13. Whate'er befall-Adv. Sent. of condition. 15. 'Tis better, &c.- Subs. Sent. in Appos. with it in 13, 14. To have loved and lost- Subj. in Appos. with it (Gr. 71, Remark 3). 16. Never to have loved at all-Subj. to is good understood. Along the Psalmist's music deep, | For gift or grace, surpassing this)— U. What would we give to our beloved ?| III. What do we give to our beloved ?| A little dust to overweep,] And bitter memories to make The whole earth blasted for our sake :]— 18 He giveth his beloved sleep. IV. Sleep soft, beloved !] we sometimes say, I Sad dreams] that through the eyelids creep; | Shall break the happy slumber | when The grammatical order of the 1st stanza is as follows: Now, tell me, if that any of all the thoughts of God, that are borne inward unto souls afar, along the Psalmist's deep music, is for gift or grace surpassing this"He giveth his beloved sleep." 4. If that. The Conj. that, which is originally the Article in the Neut. Gend. (like the Germ. dass das), was formerly used to introduce all sorts of Adverbial and Adjective Sentences, e.g., while that I have time, &c. In stnaza 2, the infinitives to be unmoved, to sweep, to teach and rouse, to light, are all infinitives of purpose, equivalent to adverbial sentences of purpose: that he may be unmoved that he may sweep it-that he may teach and rouse, &c. (Gr. 88, Remark) The meaning of the 3d stanza is, What is it that we give to those we love? We give them, during life, faith, that perhaps has never stood any very severe test; and we give them at last only a little dust to weep over, and memories which only em bitter all the other sweets of life. 20. We is the Subj. to have. V. [O earth, so full of dreary noises; VI. His dews drop mutely on the hill,| VII. Ay, men may wonder | while they scan, |