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Let each reflect, who prizes fame or breath,
On endless infamy, or instant death;

For lo! the fated time, the appointed shore "Hark! the gates burst, the brazen barriers

roar;

Impetuous Hector thunders at the wall;

"The hour, the spot, to conquer, or to fall.

POPE'S HOMER.

45. Address to Independence.

VEHEMENT EXPRESSION:

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'Exultation, Determination, and 'Defiance; Exultation, Scorn,

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Exultation, "Scorn, Indignation and Contempt; ' Indignation predominates; 10 Contempt predominates; "Warning, with some solemnity of manner, which assumes the expression of Disgust, in pronouncing that word; "Enthusiastic Delight, 13 Defiance, and 14 Determination.

1Thy spirit, Independence, let me share, Lord of the lion heart and eagle eye, Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare,

2 Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.

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3 Thou, guardian genius, thou didst teach my

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youth

Pomp and her tinsel livery to despise :

My lips, by thee chastised to early truth,

Ne'er paid that homage which the heart denies.

Those sculptured halls my feet shall never

tread,

Where varnished Vice and Vanity, combined

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To dazzle and seduce, their banners spread,
And forge vile shackles for the free-born mind:
Where Insolence his wrinkled front uprears,
And all the flowers of spurious fancy blow,
And Title his ill-woven chaplet wears,
Full often wreathed around the miscreant's brow:
Where ever dimpling Falsehood, pert and vain,
Presents her cup of stale profession's froth,
And pale Disease with all his bloated train,
Torments the sons of gluttony and sloth.
In Fortune's car behold the minion ride,
With either India's glittering spoils oppressed:
So moves the sumpter-mule in harnessed pride
That bears the treasure which he cannot taste.
9 For him let venal bards disgrace the bay,
And hireling minstrels wake the tinkling string;
Her sensual snares let faithless Pleasure lay,
10 And all her gingling bells fantastic Folly ring;
Disquiet, doubt, and dread shall intervene,
And Nature, still to all her feelings just,

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In vengeance hang a damp on every scene,
Shook from the baneful pinions of Disgust.

12 Nature I'll court in her sequestered haunts,
By mountain, meadow, streamlet, grove, or cell,
Where the poised lark his evening ditty chaunts,
And health, and peace, and contemplation dwell.
There Study shall with Solitude recline,
And Friendship pledge me to his fellow swains,
And Toil and Temperance sedately twine
The slender cord that fluttering life sustains,

And fearless poverty shall guard the door, And Taste unspoiled, the frugal table spread, And Industry supply the humble store,

And Sleep, unbribed, his dews refreshing shed; White-mantled Innocence, ethereal sprite, 13 Shall chase far off the goblins of the night, 14 And Independence o'er the day preside, Propitious power! my patron and my pride.

SMOLLETT.

46. Farewell to Anna's Grave.

PLAINTIVE EXPRESSION:

A slight expression of Weariness and Disgust; The unmingled

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predominant expression; ' Weariness,

* Feebleness, Affectionate warmth.

Affectionate warmth,

I wish I was where Anna lies,
'For I am sick of lingering here;
2 And every hour affection cries,
Go and partake her humble bier.
I wish I could: for when she died

I lost my all; and life has proved
Since that sad hour a3 dreary void,
A waste unlovely and unloved.

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* But who, when I am turned to clay, Shall duly to her grave repair,

And pluck the ragged moss away,

And weeds that have no business there?

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And who with pious hand shall bring
The flowers she cherished, snow-drops cold,
And violets that unheeded spring,

To scatter o'er her hallowed mould?

And who, while memory loves to dwell
Upon her name for ever dear,
Shall feel his heart with passion swell,
And pour the bitter, bitter tear?
I did it; and would Fate allow,
Should visit still, should still deplore;
"But health and strength have left me now,
And I, alas! can weep no more.

"Take then, sweet maid, this simple strain,
The last I offer at thy shrine;

Thy grave must then undecked remain,
And all thy memory fade with mine.

And can thy soft persuasive look,

Thy voice that might with music vie,
Thy air, that every gazer took,
Thy matchless eloquence of eye,

Thy spirits frolicksome as good,
Thy courage by no ills dismayed,
Thy patience by no wrongs subdued,
Thy gay good humour, can they fade?
Perhaps ; but sorrow dims my eye: li
Cold turf, which I no more must view,

Dear name, which I no more must sigh,
A long, a last, a sad adieu..

GIFFORD.

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47. The Dying Gladiator.

VEHEMENT EXPRESSION:

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'Earnest and Plaintive manner, Firmness and Defiance, Plaintive manner, *Firmness and Defiance, Plaintive manner, Warning, Rage, relaxes toward Feebleness; resumes Firmness and 10 Force; relaxes into " Feebleness; "Force, "Plaintive manner, "Determination and 15 Eagerness, 16 Plaintive manner, "Force, 18 Feebleness, 19 Indignation, " Awe, " Plaintive manner, mingled with "Reproach.

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'Will then no pitying hand its succour lend The Gladiator's mortal throes to end?

2 To free the unconquered mind, whose generous power

Triumphs o'er nature in her saddest hour?

3 Bowed low and full of death his head declines, "Yet o'er his brow indignant valour shines ; Still glares his closing eye with angry light, Now glares, now darkens with approaching night.

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"Think not with terror heaves that sinewy

breast;

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"'Tis vengeance visible, and pain suppressed: 'Calm in despair, in agony sedate,

His proud soul 10 wrestles with " o'ermastering fate.

That pang the conflict ends:-12 he falls not

yet;

Seems every nerve for one last effort set,

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