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And, from her wild sequestered seat,
In notes by distance made more sweet,
Poured through the mellow horn her pensive soul;
And dashing soft from rocks around,
Bubbling runnels joined the sound:

Through glades and glooms the mingled measures stole,
Or, o'er some haunted streams, with fond delay,
(Round a holy calm diffusing,

Love of peace and lonely musing),

In hollow murmurs die away.

9. But, oh! how altered was its sprightlier tone,
When Cheerfulness, a nymph of healthiest hue,
Her bow across her shoulder flung,

10.

Her buskins gemmed with morning dew,

Blew an + inspiring air, that dale and thicket rung,

The hunter's call, to Faun and Dryad known.

The oak-crowned sisters and their chaste-eyed queen,
Satyrs and sylvan boys were seen,

Peeping from forth their alleys green:

Brown Exercise rejoiced to hear,

And Sport leaped up and seized his beechen spear.

Last, came Joy's ecstatic trial:

He, with viny crown advancing,

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First to the lively pipe his hand addressed;
But soon he saw the brisk awakening viol,
Whose sweet entrancing voice he loved the best.
They would have thought, who heard the strain,
They saw in Tempé's vale her native maids,
Amid the festal-sounding shades,

To some unwearied minstrel dancing,
While, as his flying fingers kissed the strings,
Love framed with Mirth a gay
+fantastic round,

Loose were her tresses seen, her zone unbound),
And he, amid his frolic play,

As if he would the charming air repay,
Shook thousand odors from his dewy wings.

COLLINS.

QUESTIONS.— What is that figure of speech, by which passions, « ☺., are addressed as animated beings? What is meant by "shell" in the 3d line? What is this ode intended to illustrate? Who were the Fauns and Dryads? What do you know of Tempé's vale? What parts of the above sketch should be read in a lively manner? How should stanzas 2, 3, 4, and 8, be read? How should the 6th stanza be read ?

LESSON XCIII.

REMARK.- While each pupil reads, let the rest observe and then mention which syllables are pronounced wrong, and, also, which syllables or letters are omitted or indistinctly uttered.

Am-a-teurs', n. lovers of the fine
arts, such as music, painting, &c.
1. Haut'-boy, n. (pro. ho'-boy) an in-
strument of music.

2. Throes, n. extreme pain, anguish.
3. Brawn'-y, a. fleshy, having large
muscles.

Goad'-ed, v. pricked.

5. Jole, n. the cheek: cheek by jols
means, with the cheeks close together.
Dul'-cet, a. sweet to the ear, melo-
dious.

6. Erst, adv. formerly, long ago.
8. Dire, a. horrible, dismal.

THE AMATEURS.

This piece is a travesty or parody, that is, it is written in the style of a serious poem, but for the purpose of rendering its subject ridiculous or ludicrous. It is written in the style of the Ode on the Passions, the lesson that precedes it, and is designed to ridicule a self-conceited and ignorant musician who i represented in the piece under a fictitious name.

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1. WHEN Festin, heavenly swain, was young,
When first attuned his viol rung,
And the soft hautboy's melting trill
Confessed the magic-master's skill;
Beneath his opening windows round
The admiring rabble caught the sound;
And oft, at early morn, the throng
Besieged the house to hear his song.
Till once, 't is said, when all were fired,
Filled with fury, rapt, inspired,
With one consent, they brought around
Dire instruments of grating sound;
And each, (for madness ruled the hour),
Would try his own sky-rending power.

2. First in the ranks, his skill to try,
A stout and sturdy clown was there;
A deafening hautboy, cracked and dry,
Brayed harsh discordance on the air:
With breath retained, and labored grin,
Rapt by his own tumultuous din,
With blood suspended in his face,
And paws that could not find their place,

The champion played: while every peal confessed How strong the throes that heaved his massy chest.

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3. Next, came a brawny nurse, but six feet high,
With leathern lungs, and throat of brass supplied;
Striving with "Chevy Chase" and "Lullaby,"
To drown the screeching infant at her side.
And ever and anon the babe she seized,

And squeezed and sung, and sung and squeezed:
Although sometimes, each dreary pause between,
The strangled infant's piercing shrieks,

And writhing limbs, and blackening cheeks,
Full well confessed the secret pin,

That keenly goaded him within,

Yet closer squeezed the nurse, and louder was her din

4. A wheezing sawyer, standing by,

Industriously was sawing wood;

Though dull his saw, his throat was dry;
Awhile he used them as he could.

At length, grown tired of toil in vain,

The wretch resolved to change his strain;
With fell intent, defying nature's law,

He paused, and held his breath-to whet his saw
With eyes half closed, and raised to heaven,
And starting teeth from sockets driven,

And clinching jaws, convulsed with ghastly smile,
Across the wiry edge he drew the screaking file.

5. A boy came next, loud whooping to the gale,
And on his truant, shoulders bore a pole:

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Two furious cats, suspended by the tail,
Were swinging, cheek by jole.

O dulcet cats! thus hung at leisure,
What was your delighted measure!

Entangled in no faint embrace,

With claws deep buried in each other's face,
How did you hiss and spit your venom round,
With murderous yell of more than earthly sound!
O dulcet cats! could one more pair like you,
The concert join, and pour the strain anew,
Not man could bear, nor demon's ear sustain
The fiendish caterwaul of rage and pain.

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6. A fish cart next came rattling by;

Its lusty driver, perched on high,
Recruited by his recent bowl,

Poured through the deafening horn his greedy soul

Such notes he blew, as erst threw down
Old Jericho's substantial town;

While scarce was heard, so loud he wound his peal,
The mangled cur that yelped beneath his wheel.

7. Then came a child +eloped from home,
Pleased in the streets at large to roam;
His cart behind he dragged; before
A huge tin coffee-pot he bore,
Which, ever and anon, he beat
With sticks and stones in furious heat:
Nor heeded he, that at his heels
The crier rung his frequent peals:
With brazen throat, and hideous yell,
That distanced all the hounds of hell,
In air his stunning bell he tossed,
And swelled, and shouted, "lost! lost! lost!"

8. Emblem of justice, high above,

A ponderous pair of steelyards hung;
Hooked by the nose, his weight to prove,
A living hog beneath was swung.
Dire was the squeal that rent the sky
With sounds too dread for earthly throat;
While not a butcher lingered nigh
To stop the howling monster's note.
Fast to escape the hated strain,

With ears comprest, some fled *amain,

While others paused, all hopeless of relief,

And mourned that fortune had not made them dear.

9. Thus, long ago,

Ere Colin drew his fiddlebow,

While jarring sawmills yet were mute;

The jarring, howling, deafening choir,
With notes combined in concert dire,

Could shake the sky, the solid earth could move,
While milder thunders burst unheard above.

MONTHLY ANTHOLOGY.

QUESTIONS. What is a travesty or parody? For what purpose was this lesson written? Name the several performers described. Point out some instances in this lesson, to which Rule I, for inflections, applies. Rule II, or any of the particulars specified under it. Rule IV. Parse "grown " and "tired," in the 4th paragraph. "Lost," in the 7th. "Hooked," in the 8th. "To escape," in the same.

LESSON XCIV.

REMARK. Be careful not to slip over or mispronounce the small words.

SOUND the r distinctly in the following words in this lesson: beware, scattered, Cumberland, there, despair, merciless, coward, bird, far, stars, fire, peerless, banners, mark, marshaled, swords, their, are, har vest, claymore, cover, lore, where, near.

Es-pous'-ed, v. embraced.
Dis-as'-trous, a. unfortunate.

2. Low'-lands, n. the south of Scotland,
called thus because the land lies
comparatively low. The northern
part is called the Highlands, because
it is hilly.
[ited horse does.
7. Pran'-ces, v. bounds as a high-spir-
18. Reek, v. to give out steam or vapor.
20. Go'-ry, a. bloody.

21. Do'-tard, n. a foolish old man.

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LOCHIEL'S WARNING.

Lochiel was a brave and influential Highland +Chieftain. He espoused the cause of Charles Stuart, called the Pretender, who claimed the British throne. In the following piece, he is supposed to be marching with the warriors of his clan, to join Charles' army. On his way he is met by a Seer, who, having, according to the popular superstition, the gift of second sight, or prophecy, forewarns him of the disastrous event of the tenterprise, and exhorts him to return home, and avoid the destruction which certainly awaited him, and which afterward fell upon him at the battle of Culloden, in 1745.

Seer. LOCHIEL! Lochiel! beware of the day

When the Lowlands shall meet thee in battle array! For a field of the dead rushes red on my sight, And the clans of Culloden are scattered in fight; 5. They rally, they bleed, for their kingdom and crown; Woe, woe to the riders that trample them down! Proud Cumberland prances, insulting the slain, And their hoof-beaten bosoms are trod to the plain. But hark! through the fast-flashing lightning of war, 10. What steed to the desert flies +frantic and far? "T is thine, O Glenullin!* whose bride shall await,

* Another name for Lochiel.

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