He hasted, and opposed the rocky orb Of tenfold adamant, his ---- shield.
POETRY (page 277).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _poetry_? 2. Does _poetry_ involve _rime_? Does it require _meter_? 3. What is imperatively required beyond _verse_, _rime_, or _meter_ to const.i.tute _poetry_?
EXAMPLES.
---- is rhythmical, imaginative language, expressing the invention, taste, thought, pa.s.sion, and insight of a human soul.
He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty ----.
And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal ----.
POLITE (page 277).
QUESTIONS.
1. What are the characteristics of a _civil_ person? What more is found in one who is _polite_? 2. How does _courteous_ compare with _civil_? 3.
What does _courtly_ signify? _genteel_? _urbane_? 4. In what sense is _polished_ used? _complaisant_?
EXAMPLES.
She is not ---- for the sake of seeming ----, but ---- for the sake of being kind.
He was so generally ---- that n.o.body thanked him for it.
Her air, her manners, all who saw admired; ---- tho coy, and gentle tho retired.
POVERTY (page 279).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does _poverty_ strictly denote? What does it signify in ordinary use? 2. What does _privation_ signify? How does it compare with _distress_? 3. What is _indigence_? _dest.i.tution_? _penury_? 4. What does _pauperism_ properly signify? How does it differ from _beggary_ and _mendicancy_?
POWER (page 279).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _power_? 2. Is _power_ limited to intelligent agents, or how widely applied? 3. How does _ability_ compare with _power_? 4. What is _capacity_, and how related to _power_ and to _ability_? 5. What is _competency_? _faculty_? _talent_? 6. What are _dexterity_ and _skill_?
How are they related to _talent_? 7. What is _efficacy_? _efficiency_?
EXAMPLES.
Bismarck was the one great figure of all Europe, with more ---- for good or evil than any other human being possessed at that time.
The soul, in its highest sense, is a vast ---- for G.o.d.
I reckon it is an oversight in a great body of metaphysicians that they have been afraid to ascribe our apprehensions of ---- to intuition. In consequence of this neglect, some never get the idea of ----, but merely of succession, within the bare limits of experience.
PRAISE (page 280).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _praise_? By how many is it given, and how is it expressed?
2. What is _applause_? by how many given? and how expressed? 3. What is _acclamation_? How does it differ from _applause_? 4. How does _approbation_ differ from _praise_? 5. What does _approval_ add to the meaning of _praise_? 6. How does _compliment_ compare with _praise_? 7.
What is _flattery_?
EXAMPLES.
The ---- of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o"er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation"s eyes.
---- no man e"er deserved who sought no more.
Gladly then he mixed Among those friendly powers, who him received With joy and ----s loud.
PRAY (page 281).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is it to _pray_ in the religious sense? 2. In what lighter and more familiar sense may _pray_ be used? Is this latter use now common?
EXAMPLES.