EXAMPLE FOR PRACTICE.

We should be very cautious how we cut off another person's pleasures. 'Tis an easy thing to say to them, 'You are wrong or foolish,' and so check them in their pursuit. But what have we to give them that will compensate for it? We may deprive the spider of his web, and the robin of his nest, but we can never repair the damage to them. Leave me to catch my butterfly, and Ann to catch her bat.-Diary of Mistress Mary Powell.

SKELETON FORM-SUBJECT IN ITALICS.

Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would be be who could pass by a sight so touching: This City now doth wear the beauty of the morning; Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie open unto Never did sun more beautifully steep valley, rock, or The river glideth at his

the fields and sky;

hill;

Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!

own will: the houses seem asleep; and all that mighty heart is lying still!

Earth has not anything to show more fair:
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
A sight so touching in its majesty:

This City now doth, like a garment, wear
The beauty of the morning; silent, bare,
Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie
Open unto the fields, and to the sky;

All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Never did sun more beautifully steep
In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill;
Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!
The river glideth at his own sweet will:
Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;
And all that mighty heart is lying still!

EXAMPLE FOR PRACTICE.

Indeed, it is the only time

That with thy glory doth best chime;

All now are stirring, every field

Full hymns doth yield;

The whole creation shakes off night,
And for thy shadow looks the light;
Stars now vanish without number,

Sleepie Planets set and slumber,

The pursie clouds disband and scatter,
All expect some sudden matter;

Not one beam triumphs, but from far
That morning star.-H. Vaughan.

SKELETON FORM-SUBJECT IN ITALICS.

Turn the wheel! feel help.

Night hath brought the hour. When the fingers
Night o'ershades the ground. Turn the wheel! Now,

beneath the sky, couch the sheep.
while they sleep, runs with speed.
love is like the thread which the wool

SUBJECT.

Ply the labour, ply, for the spindle, Likings may be bred by a glance, but supplies, when the flocks are all at rest.

PREDICATE.

MAP.

Swiftly turn the murmuring wheel!

Night

has brought the welcome hour, [when the weary

* In many instances the predicative adjective or participle qualifies both

subject and predicate.