10. Here I sit among my descendants, in my old armchair, and immemorial corner, while the firelight throws an appropriate glory round my venerable frame. — HAWTHORNE.

II. He who sets a great example is great. -Victor Hugo. 12. I saw from the beach, when the morning was shining, A bark o'er the waters move gloriously on. — MOORE.

I.

EXERCISE II.

The song that moves a Nation's heart

Is in itself a deed. -TENNYSON.

2. As I crossed the bridge over the Avon on my return, I paused to contemplate the distant church in which the poet lies buried. — IRVING.

3. We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty,

and the pursuit of happiness.

4. We can almost fancy that we are visiting him [Milton] in his small lodging; that we see him sitting at the old organ beneath the faded green hangings; that we can catch the quick twinkle of his eyes, rolling in vain to find the day; that we are reading in the lines of his noble countenance the proud and mournful history of his glory and his affliction. - MACAULAY.

5. When the woodpecker is searching for food, or laying siege to some hidden grub, the sound of his hammer is dead or muffled, and is heard but a few yards. It is only upon dry, seasoned timber, freed of its bark, that he beats his reveille to spring and woos his mate. — JOHN BURROUGHS.

LESSON C.

THE COMPOUND SENTENCE.

A compound sentence is a sentence made up of two or more independent members; as,—

The walls are high, and the shores are steep.

Each member of a compound sentence, by itself, forms a complete sentence, which may be simple or complex; as,The Mayor was dumb, and the Council stood

As if they were changed into blocks of wood.

1. The Mayor was dumb. (Simple Sentence.)

2. The Council stood as if they were changed into blocks of wood. (Complex Sentence.)

The connective between the members may be omitted, but the relation between the members should be stated in the analysis; as,

The night is chill, the cloud is gray.

To analyze a compound sentence —

1. Tell the kind of sentence.

2. Name the different members, and tell how they are connected.

3. Analyze in order the different members of the sentence.

Example. - The merchants shut up their warehouses, and the laboring men stood idle about the wharves.

ORAL ANALYSIS.

1. This is a compound declarative sentence, consisting of two simple members connected by the copulative conjunction, and.

2. The subject of the first member is the merchants; the predi

cate, shut up their warehouses. The subject consists of the noun merchants, modified by the adjective the. The predicate consists of the verb shut, modified by the adverb up, and completed by the object warehouses. The object is modified by the possessive pronoun their.

3. The subject of the second member is the laboring men; the predicate, stood idle about the wharves. The subject consists of the noun men, modified by the phrase the laboring, of which laboring modifies men, and the modifies laboring men. The predicate con

sists of the verb stood, completed by the adjective idle, and modified by the adverbial phrase about the wharves.

1. Every day is a little life; and our whole life is but a day repeated.

2. The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few. 3. They toil not, neither do they spin.

4. It is one thing to be well informed; it is another to

be wise.

5. The ravine was full of sand now, but it had once been full of water.

6. He touched his harp, and nations heard, entranced.

7. The moon is up, and yet it is not night. — BYRON.
Stay, rivulet, nor haste to leave

8.

The lovely vale that lies around thee. BRYANT.

9. They had played together in infancy; they had worked together in manhood; they were now tottering about, and gossiping away the evening of life; and in a short time they will probably be buried together in the neighboring churchyard. — IRVING.

10. Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast. COWPER.

I.

EXERCISE II.

Lay down the axe; fling by the spade;

Leave in its track the toiling plough. - Bryant.

2. I turned in my saddle and made its girths tight.

3. He assisted at their sports, made their playthings, taught them to fly kites and shoot marbles, and told them long stories of ghosts, witches, and Indians. - IRVING.

4.

That was the grandest funeral
That ever passed on earth;

Yet no man heard the trampling,

Or saw the train go forth.

But what chiefly characterized the colonists of Merry Mount was their veneration for the Maypole. It has made their true history a poet's tale. Spring decked the hallowed emblem with young blossoms and fresh green boughs; Summer brought roses of the deepest blush, and the perfected foliage of the forest; Autumn enriched it with that red and yellow gorgeousness which converts each wildwood leaf into a painted flower; and Winter silvered it with sleet, and hung it round with icicles, till it flashed in the cold sunshine, itself a frozen sunbeam. - HAWTHORNE.

LESSON CI.

SELECTIONS FOR ANALYSIS.

I.

SUBSTANTIVE PHRASES

(INFINITIVE).

I. To do good should be the aim of all.

2. He hoped to win the prize.

3. He did not dare to take the trip.