Narrative. Asserting Description Indignant Contempt Indignant Remonstrance Disdain with Ex. 29. The Butterfly and the Snail. All úpstarts, insolent in pláce, 'What means yon peasant's daily toil, And what's a bútterfly? At best Gay. Retort Ex. 30. Noble Revenge. A YOUNG ófficer (in what ármy no matter) had so Narrative make Menace Some weeks after this a partial action took place Animated with the enemy. Suppose yourself a spectator, and Description looking down into a válley occupied by two àrmies. They are facing each other, you see, in martial array. But it is no more than a skirmish which is going on; in the course of which, however, an occasion suddenly aríses for a desperate sèrvice. A redoubt, which has fallen into the enemy's hands, must be recaptured at any price, and under círcumstances of all but hopeless difficulty. A strong párty has volunteered for the sèrvice; there is a crý for somebody to head them; you see a soldier step out from the ranks to assume this dangerous leadership; the párty moves rapidly fòrward; in a few minutes it is swallowed up from your eyes in clouds of smoke; for óne half-hour from behind these clouds you receive hieroglyphic reports of bloody strifefierce repeating signals, flashes from the gùns, rolling mùsketry, and exulting hurráhs, advancing or recéding, slackening or redoubling. Eager Joy Pause of At length áll is òver; the redoubt has been recovered; that which was lóst is foùnd again; the jewel which had been made cáptive is ransomed with blood. Crimsoned with glorious góre, the wreck of the conquering party is reliéved, and at liberty to return. From the river you see it ascènding. The plume-crested officer in commánd rushes forward, with his left hand raising his hát in homage to the blackened frágments of what once was a flag; whilst with his ríght hand he seizes that. of the leader, though no more than a private from the ranks. Thát perplexes you not: mystery you see none in that. For distinctions of órder perish, ránks are confounded, 'hìgh and low' are words without a meàning, and to wrèck goes every notion or féeling that divides the noble from the nóble, or the brave man from the brave. But whèrefore is it that now, when suddenly they wheel into mutual recognition, suddenly they paùse? This sòldier, Deep Feeling this ófficer-who are they? O reáder! ónce before they had stood face to face-the sòldier it is that was struck; the officer it is that strùck him. Once again they are meeting; and the gaze of ármies is upon them. If for a mòment a doubt divídes them, in a moment the doubt has pèrished. One glànce exchanged between them publishes the forgiveness that is sealed for ever. As one who recovers a brother whom he had accounted dead, the officer Overpower- sprang forward, threw his arms around the neck of ing Impulse the soldier and kissed him, as if he were some martyr glorified by that shadow of death from which he was returning; whilst on his part, the sòldier, stepping back, and carrying his open hand through the beautiful motions of the military salute to a supérior, makes this immortal answer-thát answer which shut up for ever the memory of the indignity óffered to him, even whilst for the last time allúding to it-Sir,' he said, 'I told you befòre that I would make you repent it.' De Quincey. Friendly Ex. 31. 1. Plain description. Description, lively, then Excelsior. 5. 3. Animated. 4. Inspiriting. 2. Sadness. entreaty. 9. Impressive advice. 10. Hopeful. 11. Descriptive. 12. Affect ing narrative.* 1THE shades of night were falling fast, 2 His brow was sad; his eye beneath The accents of that unknown tongue,— "In happy homes he saw the light 76 Try not the Pass!' the old man said; 8' O stay' the maiden said, 'and rest "Beware the pine-tree's withered branch! This was the peasant's last Good-night; * These annotations should be pencilled at the proper places on the margin by the pupil, who should be encouraged to add others of his own-the number and appositeness of these being taken as the measure of his understanding of the passage. 11 At break of day, as heavenward, A voice cried through the startled air,— 12A traveller, by the faithful hound, There, in the twilight cold and gray, Longfellow. Ex. 32. Descriptive, Progress of a Glacier compared to the Course 1. Comparison. 2. Narration. 3. Enumeration. 4. Impressive description. 5. Elevated sentiment. 'POETS and Philosophers have delighted to compare the course of human life to that of a river; perhaps a still apter simile might be found in the history of a glacier. "Heaven-descended in its origin, it yet takes its mculd and conformation from the hidden womb of the mountains which brought it forth. At first, soft and ductile, it acquires a character and firmness of its own, as an inevitable destiny urges it in its onward career. Jostled and constrained by the crosses and inequalities of its prescribed path, hedged in by impassable barriers which fix limits to its movements, it yields groaning to its fate, and still travels forward seamed with the scars of many a conflict with opposing obstacles. All this while, although wasting, it is renewed by an unseen power-it evaporates, but is not consumed. On its surface it bears the spoils which, during the progress of its existence, it has made its own; often weighty burdens devoid of beauty or value,-at times precious masses, sparkling with gems or with ore. *Having at length attained its greatest width and extension, commanding admiration by its beauty and power, waste |