Inexpreffi tranfport and Joy. of Love your deservings at the hands of such a husband as I have hitherto been. Receive me, then, entire at last, and take what no woman ever truly had, -not even your incomparable self-my conquer[Embracing.] ed heart. Lady Easy. O my recovered, my almost lost, my inestimable jewel!-My husband-My love!O extasy of joy !-Too much for human nature !-Thus to have all I love on earth, come voluntarily and unsolicited, to load me with kindness, and crown me with happiness! What is the rapture of the lover sighing at our feet, to the solid joy of receiving the relenting, rePious grati- turning husband! O dearest love! Be not so profusely kind. O Heaven!-Teach me to shew gratitude suitable to such a blessing. tude. XLVII. DISCONTENT. EXCITING. RE- The scene, in which CASSIUS excites BRUTUS to (Shakespeare's JUL. Cæs.) Difcontent. Cassius. HONOR is the subject of my story; I cannot tell, what you and other men Contempt. I'd rather sleep i' th' dust, than live to be Pride. Narration with Con tempt. Queftion. Courage. I was born free as Casar. So were you. And swim to yonder Point ?" Upon the word, (1) This paffage cannot be expreffed with life, without fomething of the action of swimming. And bade him follow; so indeed he did. A wretched creature, and must bend his body, Brutus. Another general shout! I do believe that their applauses are For some new honours that are heap'd on Cæsar. Like a Colossus, and we sorry dwarfs Men sometimes have been masters of their fates: Brutus & Cæsar! What should be in that Cæsar ? Diftrefs & intreating. *Courage. +Wonder. Contempt. Narration with contempt. Contempt. Sickness. Listening. Wonder. Discontent. Ranting. Regret. Exciting. Weigh them; it is as heavy; conjure with them; Brutus will start a ghost as soon as Cæsar. Wonder. Now in the names of all the gods at once, Contempt. Upon what meat doth this our Cæsar feed, Exciting. Approbat. That he is grown so great? Age thou art sham'd; Brutus. (1) That you do love me, I am noth- Serious con. What you would work me to, I have some aim; Plotting. I will with patience hear, and find a time Difcontent. Brutus-had rather be a Lybian, Joy & love. Than to repute himself a son of Rome, XLVIII. [Exeunt.] JOY. TROUBLE. FLATTERY. DARING. EvE's Account of her troublesome Dream. sole, in whom my thoughts find all repose, My glory, my perfection! Glad I see (1) The character of Brutus being cool courage, his speech is to be expreffed accordingly. brance Thy face, and morn return'd. For I this night Disagreea- Why sleep'st thou Eve? Now is the pleasant wheedling time, The cool, the silent, save where silence yields To the night warbling bird, that now awake, Pleafing Tunes sweetest his love labour'd song; now reigns defeription. I rose, as at thy call; but found thee not, And on, methought, alone I pass'd thro' ways, By us oft seen; his dewy locks distill'd Ambrosia. On that tree he also gaz'd; Flattery. Narration. Apprehenfion. Wonder. And, "O fair plant," said he "with fruit sur- Pleafure and charg'd, Deigns none to ease thy load, and taste thy sweet, Nor god, nor man? Is knowledge so despis'd? (1) "If dream'd." The impreffion being fo ftrong, that the was in doubt, whether it was a dream or reality. (2) "In vain." &c. The pupil must be told, that this means, "No matter whether any earthly creature is awake to admire your beauty." desire. Inquiry. Resolution. Fear. Joy. Inviting. Longer thy offer'd good, why else set here ?" For gods; yet able to make gods of men: The author not impair'd, but hononr'd more? Here, happy creature, fair angelic Eve! Partake thou also, happy though thou art, Flattery. Happier thou may'st be; worthier canst not be; Tempting. Taste this, and be henceforth among the gods, Thyself a goddess, not to earth confin'd, But sometimes in the air, as we; sometimes Ascend to Heav'n, by merit thine, and see What life the gods live there, and such live thou." Tempting. So saying, he drew nigh, and to me held, Ev'n to my mouth, of that same fruit held part. Which he had pluck'd. The pleasant sav'ry smell So quicken'd appetite, that I methought, Could not but taste. Forthwith up to the clouds Romantic. With him I flew, and underneath beheld Imagina- The earth out stretch'd immense, a prospect wide And various. Wond'ring at my flight and change To this high exaltation; suddenly tion. Joy. Civility. My guide was gone, and I, methought, sunk down XLIX. ANGUISH FOLLOWED BY TRANSPORT. The scene of Indiana's being found to be Mr. Sealand's daughter. [Consc. Lov.] Ind. I AM told, Sir, you come about business, which requires your speaking with me. |