pronounced at that day. I think you told us you could recollect when the name in this country was generally called Sension. T.-Heroic verse, it has been said, is composed of five Iambs; or a continued succession of the unaccented and accented syllable: are there any exceptions to be found in the lines read by Master G. ? H.-Yes, Sir, the first foot on the tenth, the first and the third foot in the thirteenth, and the first in the fifteenth line, have, on each syllable, a strong accent: and the fourth foot in the first line, and the second in the fifth are nearly similar. T-Are any of the words contracted to form the regular foot? H.-Yes; expatiate, in the fifth, and flowers and promiscuous, in the seventh line. T-Point out in each line where the poet has indicated the cæsural pause. I. In the first line, after the fifth syllable; in the 2d-the 5th; the 3d-the 2d; the 4th-the 7th; the 5th-the 4th; the 6th-the 4th; the 7th-the 2d; the 8th-the 3d; the 9th-the 6th; the 10th-the 5th; the 11th-the 4th; the 12th-the 6th; the 13th-the 4th ; the 14th-the 7th ; and the 15th and 16th, the 4th. T-Every one of the changes noticed in these sixteen lines, adds something to heighten the pleasing effect of the whole. And all can see, that the reading which gives out the sense the best, gives the fullest gratification to the ear: and that mode which resolves the whole into "divisions of sense," as the book has taught us, serves best to secure all which sense and melody demand. LESSON XVII. 1. THE ORDER OF NATURE.-Pope. All are but parts of one stupendous whóle, That, changed through áll, and yet in áll the same, through all extént, unspènt ; our mortal párt, As fúll, as perfect, in a háir as hèart; As fúll, as pérfect, in vile mán that mourns, As the rapt sèraph | that adóres and bùrns. To Hím, no high, no lów, no gréat, no small; He fills, He bounds, connects, and equals ' àll. Cease, thén, nor Order Impérfection ' náme,— Our proper bliss | depends on what we blame. Know thy own point: This kind, this dúe degree Of blindness, weákness, Heaven bestows on thee. Submit ;-in this, or any other sphére, Secure to be as blést | as thou canst beár,Safe in the hand of one Disposing Power, Or in the nátal, or the mòrtal hour. All Nature | is but Art, unknown' to thee; All Chánce, Direction, which thou canst not sée ; d; All Discord, Harmony | not understood 2. THE DAISY.-John Mason Good. B. 1764, d. 1828. Not worlds on worlds | in phalanx déep, For who but Hê, who arched the skies, And fling it, unrestrained and frèe, | 3. THE DYING CHRISTIAN TO HIS SOUL-Pope. Vital spark of heavenly fláme, Hark! they whisper; angels sáy, What is this absorbs me quite,- The world recèdes,―ít disappears! Lènd, lénd your wings! I móunt, I fly ! 4. THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB.-Lord Byron. B. 1788, d. 1824. The Assyrian came down | like a wolf on the fold, Like the leaves of the forest when summer is gréen, That host, with their bánners, at sunset were seèn; Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host, on the morrow, lay withered and stròwn. For the Angel of Death | spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed; And the eyes of the sleepers waxed déadly and chill, And their hearts but once heáved, and for ever still! And there lay the stèed with his nostrils all wide, But through them there rolled not the breath of his príde ; And the foam of his gasping lay white on the túrf, And there lay the rider | distorted and pàle, | | And the widows of Ashúr are loud in their wáil, 5. CONJUGAL FELICITY.-Thomson. I But happy they! the happiest of their kínd! Whom gentler stars uníte, and in one fáte Their hearts, their fortunes, and their beings' blènd. Meántime, a smiling offspring rises róund, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, |