EXAMPLES. (37)

1.  If we have no regard for religion in youth’, we ought to have respect for it in age.

2.  If we have no regard for our own’ character, we ought to regard the character of others.

3.  If content can not remove’ the disquietudes of life, it will, at least, alleviate them.

4.  The sweetest melody and the most perfect harmony fall powerless upon the ear of one who is deaf’,

5.  It is useless to expatiate upon the beauties of nature to one who is blind’,

6.  And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren’; but rather let them do them service.

EMPHATIC PHRASE. (38)

When it is desired to give to a phrase great force of expression, each word, and even the parts of a compound word, are independently emphasized.

EXAMPLES. (38)

1.  Cassius.  Must I endure all this? 
   Brutus.  All this!—­Ay,—­more.  Fret, till your proud—­heart—­break.

2.  What! weep you when you but behold
   Our Caesar’s vesture wounded?  Look ye here,
   Here is himself, marred, as you see, by traitors.

3.  There was a time, my fellow-citizens, when the Lacedaemonians were sovereign masters, both by sea and by land; while this state had not one ship—­no, not—­one—­wall.

4.  Shall I, the conqueror of Spain and Gaul; and not only of the Alpine nations, but of the Alps themselves; shall I compare myself with this half—­year—­captain?

5.  You call me misbeliever—­cutthroat—­dog. 
   Hath a dog—­money?  Is it possible—­
   A cur can lend three—­thousand—­ducats?

EMPHATIC PAUSE. (39)

A short pause is often made before or after, and sometimes both before and after, an emphatic word or phrase,—­thus very much increasing the emphatic expression of the thought.

EXAMPLES. (39)

1.  May one be pardoned, and retain—­the offense? 
   In the corrupted currents of this world,
   Offense’s gilded hand may shove by—­justice;
   And oft ’tis seen, the wicked prize itself
   Buys out the law:  but ’t is not so—­above: 
   There—­is no shuffling:  there—­the action lies
   In its true nature.

2.  He woke to hear his sentries shriek,
   “To arms! they come! the Greek! the Greek! 
   He woke—­to die—­midst flame and smoke.”

3.  This—­is no flattery:  These—­are counselors
   That feelingly persuade me what I am.

4.  And this—­our life, exempt from public haunt,
   Finds tongues—­in tree, books—­in the running brooks,
   Sermons—­in stones, and—­good in everything.