EXERCISE LXXVIII.

ANTITHESES.

DIRECTION.-Point out the words that denote the objects, actions, qualities, or circumstances contrasted; and recast the sentences without using the antitheses.

1. Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.

2. At his touch, crowns crumbled and beggers reigned.

3. She is a help, not a hindrance to her mother.

4. As when a husband or a lap-dog dies.

5. Every man would live long, but no man would be old.

6. If you regulate your desires according to the standard of nature, you will never be poor; if according to the standard of opinion, you will never be rich.

7. The rich man complains aloud; the poor man repines in secret. 8. They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.

9. He loves the whole human family, and hates to see the least member of it injured.

10. As we wax hot in faction, in battle we grow cold.

DIRECTION.

- Point out any violations of the rule given for Antithesis, and rewrite the sentences so as to make the figure as directed.

11. Better reign in hell, than be in the condition of a servant in heaven.

12. Fools rush where angels would be afraid to venture.

13. The battle of Sadowa was won by the schoolmaster, and the battle of Sedan was lost because the people are not so well educated (ignorance).

14. If the end brings me out right, what is said against me is of no account; if in the end I am wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

15. My people are to do what they please, and it is agreed that I shall do what pleases me.

16. I would rather die after having spoken after my manner, than speak in your manner and live.

17. Kings will be tyrants from policy when those who are under them are rebellious from principle.

18. If you wish to make a man rich, study not to increase his stores, but that his desires may be diminished.

19. If in the morn of life you remember God, you will not be forgotten by Him in your latter days.

20. A blind man is a poor man, and blind a poor man is; for the former sees no man, and the latter is not seen by any one.

EXERCISE LXXIX.

THE EPIGRAM AND OTHER FIGURES.

DIRECTION.-Name the figures, rewrite the sentences in plain language,

and note the effect.

1. It was conspicuous by its absence.

2. Beauty, when unadorned, is adorned the most.

3. When you have nothing to say, say it.

4. Summer has set in with its usual severity.
5. Words were given to hide our thoughts.

6. He is a disciple of Bacchus.

7. That merchant prince has stopped payment.
8. You are laboring under a mistake.

9.

The tall oaks reach far up into the clouds.

10. He appropriated the money to his own use.

II. No doubt ye are the people and that wisdom will die with you.

12. The obedient wife commands her husband.

EXERCISE LXXX.

GENERAL EXERCISE ON FIGURES.

DIRECTION.Name the figure or figures in each of the following sentences, and then express the meaning in plain language. Also point out and correct any errors in the use or form of the figures.

1. The heavens are veined with fire.

2. She was the favorite lamb of the teacher's flock.

3.

The Lord is my rock and my fortress.

4. Man is the creature of a day.

5. Nothing succeeds like success.

6. Rules are of no use till they are of no use.

7. He could scarcely earn enough to keep body and soul together.

8. She thought of her child as a flower of the field cut down and withered in the midst of its sweetness.

9. They died amid their country's shouts of victory.

10. The old man leaned his silver head against the breast of youth.

11. My beloved would shame the full moon and cause the evening star to hide its face.

12. The keen morning air bites our face and hands.

13. A cloud lay cradled near the setting sun.

14. The mountains and the valleys their joyous voices raise.

15. The sun smiled far over the summer sea.

16. In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as mild behavior and humility; but when the blast of war blows, let us be tigers in our fierce deportment.

17. Fair laughs the morn and soft the zephyr blows.

18. His feet are nearing the grave.

19. I saw their thousand years of snow.

20. He knocks down a dinner with his gun twice or thrice a week.

21. Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.

22. Solitude sometimes is best society.

23. There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

24. A friend cannot be known in prosperity, and an enemy cannot be hidden in adversity.

25. To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation.

26. 'Twould scald my tongue to spit out your hated name. 27. Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence body came to be called in question by it.

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28. I shall watch your pen to see if it is consecrated to the state. 29. The legendary age is a past that was never present. 30. I love a cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in it.

31. This noble passion, child of integrity, hath from my soul wiped the black scruples.

32. I think our country sinks beneath the yoke.

33. Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

34. He remained too long under the influence of the views which he had imbibed from the board.

35. An upright minister asks what recommends a man; a corrupt minister, who.

36. This prior, they say, loves the wine-cup and the buglehorn better than bell and book.

37. What saw the winter moon that night as its beams struggled through the rain?

38. Till Love and Joy look round and call the earth their own. 39. I am a young man with a very old pension; he is an old man with a very young pension: that is all.

40. A yell that rent the firmament from all the town arose. 41. That heart never melted at the concourse of sweet sounds. 42. The credulous multitude consisted of women of both sexes. 43. If you can get along with people who carry a certificate in their faces that their goodness is so great as to make them miserable, your children cannot.

44. The world is the chess-board, the pieces are the phenomena of the Universe, the rules of the game are the laws of nature.

45. Love though deep as the sea will wither as a rose.

46. His cup had been quaffed too quickly, and the dregs were wormwood.

47. The Countess of Darlington was a cataract of tallow, with eyebrows like a cart-wheel, and dim, coaly disks for eyes.

48. Choose and eat; there is life in the one and death in the other.

49. He drank his house and lot, and now his wife and children are on the street.

50. France was torn by internal strife.

51. Words were given us to conceal our thoughts.

52. Thus the successors of the old Cavaliers had turned demagogues; the successors of the old Roundheads had turned courtiers. 53. An ass covered with gold has more respect than a horse with a pack saddle.

54. God made man in his own image; but the public is made by newspapers.

55. The spring sun was setting, and it flung a crimson flush over the blue waters and white houses.

56. Youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret. 57. Her gay spirits might revolt at the dark downward path of low humility suddenly pointed out before her, and might cling to the sunny regions in which they had hitherto revelled.

58. On a summer's day might be heard the appalling sound of the birch, as the master urged some tardy loiterer along the flowery path of knowledge.

59. Compared with her friend she is a rushlight to the waning a glowworm to Antares.

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60. These boys will grow to be men, and will drag the heavy artillery along the dusty roads of life.

61. He knew not that a phantom of Wealth had thrown a golden hue upon its waters, nor that Love had sighed softly to their murmur, nor that Death had threatened to crimson them with blood.