could it just as well the Hall of the Present and of the Future call. So was and so will all be! Nothing is transitory save the one who it enjoys and it beholds. Here this picture of the mother who her child to her heart presses; many generations of happy mothers beyond live; after centuries, perhaps, rejoices himself a father at this bearded man, who his earnestness lays aside and himself with his son amuses. Lo, blushing will through all times the bride sit; and amid her silent wishes yet seek that one her comfort, that one her persuade; so impatient will the bridegroom upon the threshold listen, whether he enter may.' Wilhelm's eyes roved over innumerable images around. From the earliest crude impulse of childhood, each limb in play only to employ and to exercise, to the quiet retired seriousness of the sage, could one, in beautiful living order, see how man no natural disposition or talent possesses without them to need and to use. From the first delicate, conscious feeling, when the maiden lingers, the pitcher out of the clear water again up to draw, and meanwhile her image satisfactorily beholds, to those high festivities, when kings and people as witnesses of their alliances, to the gods at the altar appeal,- showed itself all forcible and powerful. It was a world, it was a heaven, which the spectators here surrounded, and besides the thoughts which those polished figures excited, besides the emotions which they awoke, seemed yet something else present to be, by which the entire man himself influenced felt. Also Wilhelm observed it, without himself thereof account give to be able. 'What is it,' called he out, 'that, independent of all meaning, free from all sympathy, with which human events and destinies inspire us, acts so powerfully and at the same time so agreeably upon me? It speaks from the whole, it speaks from every part to me, though I the former comprehend, though I the latter to me especially apply could. What enchantment imagine I in these surfaces, these lines, these heights and breadths, these masses and colors! What is it, that these figures, even when cursorily inspected, merely as ornaments so delightful makes! Yes, I feel one might here linger, rest, all with the eyes grasp, himself happy find and wholly something else feel and think than that which before eyes stands.'-Goethe. Take from the men the opinion of a God rewarding and avenging. Sylla and Marius themselves bathe there with delight in the blood of their fellow-citizens; Augustus, Antonius, and Lepidus surpass the furies of Sylla; Nero orders with blood-cold the murder of his mother. It is certain that the doctrine of a God avenging was extinct with the Romans. The atheist, cheat, ingrate, calumniator, brigand, blood-thirsty, reasons and acts accordingly, if he is sure of the impunity on the part of the men; for, if there is no God, this monster is his God to himself; he sacrifices all that which he desires, or all that which to him makes obstacle; the prayers the most tender, the best reasonings, avail no more over him than over a wolf famished. A society private of atheists who contend for nothing and who lose smoothly their days in the amusements of the voluptuousness, can last some time without trouble; but if the world was governed by atheists, it would worth so much to be under the yoke immediate of those beings shapeless which one to us has painted infuriated against their victims.- Voltaire. A INDEX. Abbott, E. A., 228. Alford, 220, 223, 224, 228, evolution of 253, Alison, 224, 225, 226, 236, 238, Antithesis, advantage of, 276. Balanced sentence, the, 277. Beecher, Henry Ward, 56, 234, Bentley, 214, 236, 292. Blair, Hugh, 100, 224, 225, 236, Blair, Robert, 258. Browne, Sir Thomas, 13, 27, 240. Bryant, 54, 154, 174, 234, 236, Cadmon, 31. Carlyle, 151, 183, 188, 225, 236, 7. 222, 257. Collins, Wilkie, 291. Colloquialism, 249, 250. Colon, the, rules for the use of, Comma, the, rules for the use of, Complex sentence, the, 138. Compound sentence, the, 139. a property of style, 239. Connectives, subordinating clas- Coördinating connectives, 139. Culture, need of general, in dis- Curves, as a means of emphasis, Coleridge, 123, 135, 155, 174, 221, De Quincey, 232, 239, 267, 283. Derivation, defined, 95; distin- guished from composition, 95. tional, 283. England, origin of, 7; Norman English, increasing interest in homo- Euphony, defined and illustrated, 251. Gascoigne, 30. G German, High and Low, 5. Goldsmith, 197, 211, 218, 227, H Hall, Bishop, 147, 258. |