(42) Denying me my power of a negative voice, they are not ashamed to seek to deprive me of the liberty of using my reason with a good conscience.-KING CHARLES.

(43) There is no easy method of becoming a great painter.— SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS.

(44) Those smiling eyes, attemp'ring every ray,

Shone sweetly lambent with celestial day.-POPE.

(45) The sense of a life spent in doing good will enable a man to bear up under any change of circumstance.—ATTERBURY. Him the almighty Pow'r

(46)

Hurl'd headlong flaming from the ethereal sky

To bottomless perdition.-MILTON.

(47) Your brother, fir'd with his success,

Too daringly upon the foe did press.-HALIFAX.

(48) Why do fragments from a mountain rent Tend to the earth with such a swift descent?

(49) Let us all ring fancy's knell :

Ding, dong, bell.-SHAKESPEARE.

(50) Grimalkin, to domestic vermin sworn
An everlasting foe, with watchful eye

BLACKMORE.

Lies nightly brooding o'er a chinky gap.-PHILIPS.

(51) To see a beggar's brat in riches flow

(52)

Adds not a wrinkle to my even brow.-DRYDEN.

How shall I relate

The most diminutive of birds, will fight

The young ones in her nest against the owl.

(55) He, in full frequence* bright

SHAKESPEARE.

Of angels, thus to Gabriel smiling spoke.-MILTON.

(56) Without aid, you durst not undertake

This frightful passage o'er the Stygian lake.-Dryden.

* Assembly.

(58)

Mov'd our grand parents in that happy state
Favour'd of heav'n so highly, to fall off
From their Creator ?-MILTON.

The armourers,

With busy hammers closing rivets up,

Give dreadful note of preparation.-SHAKESPEARE. (59) Let not your gentle breast harbour one thought Of outrage from the king.-ROWE.

(60) The babe clung crying to his nurse's breast, Scar'd at the dazzling helm.-POPE.

(61) For this infernal pit shall never hold Celestial spirit in bondage.-MILTON.

(62) I saw a stage erected about a foot and a half from the ground, capable of holding four of the inhabitants, with two or three ladders to mount it.-GULLIVER's Travels.

(63)

The timely dew of sleep,

Now falling with soft slumb'rous weight, inclines
Our eyelids.-MILTON.

(64) She, wretched matron, forc'd in age, for bread,
To strip the brook, with mantling cresses spread.

GOLDSMITH.

LESSON 69.-Parse all the words that are printed in Italics.

SECOND CHAPTER.

THIS Chapter treats of Complex Sentences and is divided into five Paragraphs.

Parag. I.—PRELIMINARY EXPLANATIONS.

A sentence may involve another in its own structure. The involved sentence is of a functionary character; that is, it is used in the capacity of

A Noun; as

'Each volley tells that thousands cease to breathe.'

An Adjective; as

'He who rises late never does a good day's work.'

An Adverb; as—

'He died as erring man should die.'

When a sentence thus involves another in its own structure it is termed a COMPLEX SENTENCE: the one that involves the other is called the PRINCIPAL CLAUSE, and the one that is involved the SUBORDINATE CLAUSE.

The Subordinate Clauses are distinguished as Substantive Clauses, Adjectival Clauses, or Adverbial Clauses, according respectively to the function they fulfil. A Complex Sentence has only one Principal Clause, but it may include a number of Subordinate Clauses. Remark. With the view of affording a full and clear explanation relative to the Connectives used in joining the Subordinate

to the Principal Clause, it is not only highly advantageous but quite necessary to treat the Adjectival Clause first: hence this Chapter will be arranged as follows:

Parag. II. THE ADJECTIVAL CLAUSE.

IV. THE ADVERBIAL CLAUSE.

V.-PROMISCUOUS EXAMPLES OF COMPLEX
SENTENCES.

Parag. II.—THE ADJECTIVAL CLAUSE.

An Adjectival Clause, being in function equivalent to an Adjective, may consequently enter the structure of a sentence as an Enlargement of a Noun or Pronoun, be the structural relationship of the Noun or Pronoun what it may; for example, when the Noun or Pronoun is—

as

The Subject; as—

The (boys), who fell through the ice, were repeatedly warned of their danger.'

In apposition to the Subject; as

'My friend, the (gentleman) with whom you danced at the party, is going abroad.'

In a Prepositional Phrase enlarging the Subject;

'A person, in a (position) that confers upon him great influence, should be scrupulously careful to act in all matters with prudence and moderation.'

The Enunciation; as—

'Virtue is a (quality) that never tarnishes.

In apposition to the Enunciation; as

'The author of this treatise was Hugh Miller-a (man)

that was brought up as a mason.'

In a Prepositional Phrase enlarging the Enuncia

tion; as

as

'You are now a member of a (society) that has been pronounced illegal.'

The Object; as—

Earth has no (sorrow) that heaven cannot heal.'

In apposition to the Object; as

'We visited Stratford-on-Avon-the (town) where Shakespeare was born.'

In a Prepositional Phrase enlarging the Object;

'In many ways does the full heart reveal

The presence of the (love) it would conceal.'

The Indirect Object; as

• To (him) that will, the way is seldom wanting.'

In a Prepositional Phrase forming the Extension of the Predicate; as

'The diligent travels along a (path) that leads to fortune.'

LESSON 70.-Construct twenty-two sentencesnamely, two sentences corresponding with each of the above Examples respectively.

The Connectives, that join the Adjectival Clause to the Noun or pronoun of which it forms the Enlargement, are either Relative Pronouns or Relative Adverbs.

These Connectives, as their names imply, are duplicate in function: (1) they are Pronouns or Adverbs, and, as such, enter the structure of the ADJECTIVAL CLAUSE as its SUBJECT, ENUNCIATION, DIRECT OBJECT, INDIRECT OBJECT, EXTENSION, or in some other capacity; (2) they are also Conjunctions, or rather of a Conjunctive