no regard for our own' character, we ought to regard the
character of others.

3. If content can not remove' the disquietudes of life, it will, at least,
alleviate them.

4. The sweetest melody and the most perfect harmony fall powerless upon
the ear of one who is deaf',

5. It is useless to expatiate upon the beauties of nature to one who is
blind',

6. And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them,
because they are brethren'; but rather let them do them service.

EMPHATIC PHRASE. (38)

When it is desired to give to a phrase great force of expression, each
word, and even the parts of a compound word, are independently emphasized.

EXAMPLES. (38)

1. Cassius. Must I endure all this?
Brutus. All this!--Ay,--more. Fret, till your proud--heart--break.

2. What! weep you when you but behold
Our Caesar's vesture wounded? Look ye here,
Here is himself, marred, as you see, by traitors.

3. There was a time, my fellow-citizens, when the Lacedaemonians were
sovereign masters, both by sea and by land; while this state had not one
ship--no, NOT--ONE--WALL.

4. Shall I, the conqueror of Spain and Gaul; and not only of the Alpine
nations, but of the Alps themselves; shall I compare myself with this
HALF--YEAR--CAPTAIN?

5. You call me misbeliever--cutthroat--dog.
Hath a dog--money? Is it possible--
A cur can lend three--thousand--ducats?

EMPHATIC PAUSE. (39)

A short pause is often made before or after, and sometimes both before and
after, an emphatic word or phrase,--thus very much increasing the emphatic
expression of the thought.

EXAMPLES. (39)

1. May one be pardoned, and retain--the offense?
In the corrupted currents of this world,
Offense's gilded hand may shove by--justice;
And oft 'tis seen, the wicked prize itself
Buys out the law: but 't is not so--above:
There--is no shuffling: there--the action lies
In its true nature.

2. He woke to hear his sentries shriek,
"To arms! they come! the Greek! the Greek!
He woke--to die--midst flame and smoke."

3. This--is no flattery: These--are counselors
That feelingly persuade me what I am.

4. And this--our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues--in tree, books--in the running brooks,
Sermons--in stones, and--good in everything.

5. Heaven gave this Lyre, and thus decreed,
Be thou a bruised--but not a broken--reed.

IV. INSTRUCTIONS FOR READING VERSE. (39)