PART II. EXERCISES IN READING AND DECLA. MATION. SPEECH OF SATAN TO HIS LEGIONS. (MILTON.) Narrative. He scarce had ceas'd, when the superior fiend | C Ser-kim'fe-rêns. b Gallileo. He was born at Florence, the capital of Tuscany, in Italy. Valdarno, Valle'di Arno (Italian), the vale of the Arno, a delightful valley in Tuscany. d Moun'tinz. • Am'i-ral (French), admiral. A'žůr. Nath'lès. Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks While with perfidious hatred they pursu'd Speech. ff Princes, po'tentates, | Warriors, the flow'r of heav'n, once yours, now lost, If such astonishment as this' | can seize | Eternal spirits: | ir or have ye chosen this place, | Your wearied vîrtue, | for the ease you find a A-tům'nål. Vallombrosa (válle, a vale; ombróso, shady), a shady valley in the Apennines, fifteen miles east of Florence. • Orl'on, a constellation, in the southern hemisphere. Busi'ris, Pharaoh. • Memphian, from Memphis, ancient capital of Egypt. Shiv'al-re. Per-fid'iùs. So'džurn-ůrź. · A-máź ́ment. 'Hiď. ê-ůs. ■ Wâr'yůrż. 1 As-tôn'ish-mẻnt. Be-hôldł, not burholds. Diz-zêrn'. E-tèr'nál. B OSSIAN'S ADDRESS TO THE SUN. O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers! Whence are thy beams', O sun', thy everlasting light. Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty; | the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold, and pale', sinks in the western wave. But thou thyself movest alone, who can be a companion of thy course? | The oaks of the mountains a fall; the mountains themselves', decay with years; the ocean shrinks, and grows again; the moon herself is lost in heav.n; | but thou art for ever the same, I rejoicing in the brightness of thy course. | 'When the world is dark with tempests', | 2when thunder rolls, and lightning flies', thou lookest in thy beauty from the clouds', [ 'and laugh'est at the storm. 'But, to Ossian, thou lookest in vain; for he beholds thy beams no more, whether thy yellow hairs | flow on the eastern clouds', or thou tremblest at the gates of the west. But thou art perhaps like me' for a season: [ thy years will have an end. Thou shalt sleep in the clouds', careless of the voice of the morning. Exult, then, O sun', in the strength of thy youth!'Age, is dark, and unlovely: | it is like the glimmering light of the moon, when, it shines through broken clouds'; | and the mist is on the hills, the blast of the north is on the plain', | the traveller shrinks in the midst of his journey. I TELL'S ADDRESS TO THE MOUNTAINS. e (KNOWLES.) #Ye crags, and peaks', I'm with you once again;f C He, beholds ■ Moun'tinz. b Moon herself, not moo'-ner-self. thy beams; not He'be holds thy beams. d Ossian was blind. Crags and peaks; not cragz'n peaks, nor crags Ann Peaks. 'Agèn'. To show they still are free. 'Methinks I hear And bid your tenant welcome to his home, How huge, you are! | how mighty, and how free! | I'm with you once again!e. fff I call to you | BATTLE OF HOHENLINDEN. (CAMPBELL.) On Linden, when the sun was low', I But Linden saw another sight,! By torch, and trumpet fast array'd', | • Still, are ; not stillar. Methinks, I; not me-think' si a Proud, you look; not prow'jew-look. e Huge you Agen. are; not hew'jew-are. Embrace you; not embra'shew. Lin' den; not Lindun. E'sår. Hårs'mân; not hosmun. Then shook the hills with thunder riv'n; And redder yet those fires shall glow | 'Tis morn, but scarce yon lurid sun', | The combat deep'ns - On', ye brave', ' Few, few shall part where many meet!] SPEECH OF ROLLA TO THE PERUVIAN ARMY. (R. B. SHERIDAN.) My brave associates! partners of my toil', my feelings, and my fame! Can Rolla's words add vigor to the virtuous" energies which inspire your judged as I have, the by which these bold in hearts? No! you have foulness of the crafty plea vaders would delude, you. Your generous spirit has compared as mine has, the motives which, in a war like this, I can animate their minds, and ours ̧.1 | ås. • Artil'lår-rẻ. ↳ Lin'dên; not Lindun. 4 Mü'nik. b Vertshu |