How the belfries rock and reel!
How the great guns, peal on peal,
Fling the joy from town to town!"

11. "O sacred forms, how proud you look!

How high you lift your heads into the sky!
How huge you are, how mighty and how free!

Ye are the things that tower, that shine; whose smile
Makes glad whose frown is terrible; whose forms,
Robed or unrobed, do all the impress wear

Of awe divine."

unable to cope

12. "They tell us, sir, that we are weak, with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs, and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemy shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak, if we make proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power."

CHAPTER II.

MENTALITY.

WHERE THE EXPRESSION IS CHARACTERIZED BY REFLECTIV

ITY, FORMULATION, DEFINITENESS, CLEARNESS, ANALYSIS,
OUTLINE.

Examples for Practice.

1. "Beyond the street a tower, - beyond the tower a moon, — beyond the moon a star, beyond the star, what?"

2. "Once more: speak clearly, if you speak at all;
Carve every word before you let it fall;
Don't, like a lecturer or dramatic star,
Try overhard to roll the British R;

Do put your accents in the proper spot;
Don't - let me beg you

'What?'

- don't say 'How?' for

And when you stick on conversation's burrs,

Don't strew the pathway with those dreadful urs."

3. "As an example of how the Bible should be read, take the passage from Isaiah xiv, 13, 14. There should be a little formality in the opening of this selection and in similar passages from the Bible, because they are lofty chanting poetry. The delivery should be orotund, removed in a measure from the conversational tone. The whole coloring, so to speak, should be musical. In the last clause the voice

should be full of awe, expressing in this the feeling, not of the supposed speaker, but of the prophet, who is horrorstruck at the presumption of the king of Babylon. In simple passages (as generally in the Gospels) the tone should be dignified but simple."

4. "To be, or not to be; that is the question: -
Whether 't is nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune;
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep, -
No more:"

5. "I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic. Not the sincerity that calls itself sincere; that is . . oftenest self-conceit mainly. The great man's sincerity is of the kind he cannot speak of, is not conscious of."

6. "Brutus. Get me a taper in my study, Lucius.
Lucius. I will, my lord. (Exit.)

Brutus. It must be by his death: and for my part,
I know no cause to spurn at him,

But for the general. He would be crown'd:

How that might change his nature, there's the question.
It is the bright day that brings forth the adder;
And that craves wary walking. Crown him? -
That:

And then, I grant, we put a sting in him,

That at his will he may do danger with."

7. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God."

8. "Just in proportion as the writer's aim, consciously or unconsciously, comes to be the transcribing, not of the world, not of mere fact, but of his sense of it, he becomes an artist; his work a fine art, and good art in proportion to the truth of his presentment of that sense. Truth! there can

be no merit, no craft at all, without that. And further, all beauty is in the long run only fineness of truth, or what we call expression, the finer accommodation of speech to that vision within."

9. "Tone-color is essential to the true expression of poetry. Without this, it speaks to the intellect only, not to the heart. If there is word-painting, express this by the tone, but do not exaggerate. Suggest rather than imitate. Where elevation of thought is required, let it be obtained by elevation of feeling, giving tone-color not by loudness, swagger, or display of art."

10. "For the Universe has three children, born at one time, which reappear, under different names, in every system of thought, whether they be called cause, operation, and effect; or, theologically, the Father, the Spirit, and the Son; but which we call here, the Knower, the Doer, and the Sayer. These stand respectively for the love of truth, for the love of good, and for the love of beauty. These three are equal. Each of these three has the power of the others latent in him, and his own patent."

CHAPTER III.

MORALITY (PURPOSE).

WHERE THE EXPRESSION IS DOMINATED BY A CONSCIOUSNESS

OF DESIRE, GOODWILL, CHOICE, VALUE, PURPOSE, POISE,
HARMONY.

Examples for Practice.

1. "My friend, if thou hadst all the artillery of Woolwich trundling at thy back in support of an unjust thing, and infinite bonfires visibly waiting ahead of thee, to blaze centuries long for thy victory on behalf of it, I would advise thee to call halt, to fling down thy baton, and say, 'In Heaven's name, No!""

2. "It is but a legend, I know,
A fable, a phantom, a show,

Of the ancient Rabbinical lore;
Yet the old mediæval tradition,

The beautiful, strange superstition,

But haunts me and holds me the more."

3. "Flower in the crannied wall,

I pluck you out of the crannies; -
Hold you here, root and all, in my hand,

Little flower; but if I could understand
What you are, root and all, and all in all,

I should know what God and man is."