alytical practical grammar - Toronto Public Library

POETIC LICENSES •
.. Still in harmonious inter('onrse, they lived
The rural day, and talked the flowing heart."
.. Meanwhile, whate' er of beautiful or new,
By chance or search, was otfel'ed to his view,
He scanned with curious eye."
8. Greek, Latin, and other foreign idioms, are allowable ia poetry,
though inadmissible in prose; as,-
" He knew to sing, and build the lofty rhyme."
.. Give me to seize rich Nestor's shield of gold."
.. There are, who, deaf to mad ambition's call,
Would shrink to hear the obstreperous trump of fame."
.. Yet to their general's voice they all obeyed."
----- " Never since created man,
Mt't such embodied force."
1049. Such are a few of the licenses allowed to poets, but deuied to
prose writers; and among other purposes which they obviously serve,
they enhance the pleasure of reading poetic composition, by iucrensiug
the boundary of separation set up, especially in our language, b,·tween it
and common prose. Were such licenses not permitted in poetry. the difficultyattendant
upon this species of composition would probably be so
great, that hardly any person would attempt the arduous task of writing
verse.
EXERCISES.
Point out. name, and define, the figures uf Etymology in the folIo Iving
phrases and sentences :-
His courage 'gan fail.-Bend 'gainst thp, steepy hill thy
breast.-'T was mine, 't is his.-Vain tamp'ring has but fostered
his disease.-Enchained he lay, a monster.-What way
soe'er he turned, it met him.-Th' aerial pencil forms the
scene anew.
Point out, nRme, and define, the figures of Syntax in the fullowing sen·
tences:-
The law 1 gave to nature him forbids.-So little mercy shows
who needs so much.-My head is filled with dew, and my.1ocks
with the drops of the night.-Consider the lilies of the field,
how they grow.-He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
Point out, name, and define, the figures of Rhetoric in the following sen·
tences :-
As thy day is, so shall thy strength be.-Without disciplin~,
the favorite, like a neglected forester, runs wild.-Thy name IS
as ointment poured forth.-The Lord God is a Bun aDd shield.
-1 saw their chief, tall as a rock of ice, his spear the blasted
fir.-At which the universal host sent up a shout that tore
bell's concave.