1 Mind, mind alone, (bear witness earth and heaven,) The living fountains in itself, contains Of beauteous and sublime: here hand in hand, Sit paramount the graces; here enthroned Celestial Venus with divinest airs Invites the soul to never-fading joy. In all the dewy landscapes of the spring, AKENSIDE. 31. Curse of Kehama. VEHEMENT MANNER: Anger, Malice, and Exultation. Malice predominates, and the tone deepens to the end. 'I charm thy life From the weapons of strife, From stone and from wood, And the winds shall not touch thee When they pass by thee; And the dews shall not wet thee When they fall nigh thee : 4 And visit thee * never, And the curse shall be on thee For ever and ever. SOUTHEY. 32. The Cur and the Mastiff. LIVELY AND COLLOQUIAL EXPRESSION: 5 3 8 'Contempt, Plain narrative manner, Indignation, Narrative manner, Indignation and Anger, Eagerness," Anger, Narrative manner, Spiteful Anger, 10 Warning and Remonstrance, "Narrative manner. 9 1 A sneaking cur, the master's spy, Rewarded for his daily lie, 2 With secret jealousies and fears, Poor puss to day was in disgrace,— The hound was beat; the mastiff chid; 3 Whose honest jaws the bribe defied; * He stretched his hand to proffer more; 5 The surly dog his fingers tore. "Swift ran the cur: 'with indignation The master took his information: 66 Hang him; the villain's cursed," he cries, And round his neck the halter ties. The dog his humble suit preferred, And begged, in justice, to be heard. The master sat. On either hand The cited dogs confronting stand. The cur the bloody tale relates, And, like a tell-tale, aggravates. 66 10 Judge not unheard," the mastiff cried, GAY. 33. Alexander on passing the Granicus. VEHEMENT EXPRESSION: 3 4 'Exultation and Pride, Contempt, Exultation and Pride. 'Witness, ye heavenly powers, how Alexander Honours and loves a soldier. Oh! Oh! my Clitus, Say, was it not in passing the Granicus Thou didst preserve me from unequal force? It was, when Spithridates and Resaces Fell both upon me with two dreadful strokes, And clove my tempered helmet quite asunder; Then I remember, then thou didst me service: 2 And I am prouder to have passed that stream, When glory, like the dazzling eagle, stood LEE. 34. Richmond leading his Soldiers against Richard III. VEHEMENT EXPRESSION: 5 6 3 4 8 'Narrative manner; rises into Indignation, Confidence; Warning, Encouraging; Mildness of manner; 'Fierceness; Resignation; Exultation, and the expression increases in force to the end. 9 Thus far into the bowels of the land Have we marched on without impediment. 2 Whose ravenous appetite has spoiled your fields, Laid this rich country waste, and rudely cropped Its ripened hopes of fair posterity, Is now even in the centre of the isle. 3 Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, 4 * And he but naked, though locked up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted: K |