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Char. It is well done, and fitting for a princess

Descended of so many royal kings.

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Touch their effects in this: Thyself art coming

To see performed the dreaded act, which thou
So sought'st to hinder.

[Within] A way there, way for Cæsar! Eater Cagger and attendants,

Dol. O sir, you are too sure an augurer;

That you did fear, is done.

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1st Guard. A simple countryman, that brought her figs.

This was his basket.

Cas.

1st Guard.

Poisoned then.

O Cæsar,

This Charmian lived but now; she stood, and spake:

I found her trimming up the diadem

On her dead mistress; tremblingly she stood,
And on the sudden dropped.

Cas.

O noble weakness!

If they had swallowed poison, 'twould appear
By external swelling; but she looks like sleep;
As she would catch another Antony

In her strong toil of grace.

Dol.

Here, on her breast,

There is a vent of blood and something blown;
The like is on her arm.

1st Guard. This is an aspic's trail; and these fig leaves

Have slime upon them, such as the aspic leaves
Upon the caves of Nile.

Cæs.

Most probable,

That so she died; for her physician tells me,
She hath pursued conclusions infinite

Of easy ways to die. Take up her bed;

And bear her women from the monument:
She shall be buried by her Antony:
No grave upon the earth shall clip in it
A pair so famous.

CHAPTER XVII.

MISCELLANEOUS

PASSAGES.

Each of the following sentences contains one word or more having a grammatical relation or position of less frequent occur rence than the ordinary construction. Most of these relations are explained in the Rules and Remarks in the first part of the book. For other examples of a similar kind, see Weld's English Grammar, under General Exercises in Syntax.

Princes, potentates,

Warriors, the flower of Heaven! once yours, now lost, [Milton

2. What if the breath, that kindled those grim fires,

Awaked, should blow them into seven fold rage. Id.

3. O fair foundation laid whereon to build

Their ruin.

4. The wall tottered, and had well nigh fallen right on their heads.—Coleridge.

5 What! canst thou not bear with me half an hour?

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6. Be not so greedy of popular applause, as to forget that the same breath which blows up a fire, may blow it out again.

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7. I understand him better than to suppose he will relinquish his design.

8. He delivered his brother into their hands, to be recognized as the lawful heir of the crown.

9. We being exceedingly tossed, they lightened the ship.

10.

What could I do,
But follow straight, invisibly thus led?
Till I espied thee, fair indeed, and tall,
Under a plantain; yet methought less fair,
Than that smooth watery image. —Milton.

11. Ah, gentle pair! ye little think how nigh Your change approaches, when all these delights Will vanish, and deliver ye to wo,

More wo, the more your taste is now for joy

Happy, but for so happy ill secured

Long to continue.—Id.

12. Account me man; I for his sake will leave

Thy bosom.-Id.

13. The rest shall hear me call, and oft be warned Their sinful state.-Id.

14. He ceased, for both seemed highly pleased, and

Death

Grinned horribly a ghastly smile, to hear

His famine should be filled.-Milton.

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This uncouth errand sole, and one for all
Myself expose.-Id.

16.

On a sudden open fly,

With impetuous recoil and jarring sound
Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate
Harsh thunder.-Id.

17. This said, he sat; and expectation held His look suspense.—Id.

18. Whatever doing, what can we suffer more? What can we suffer worse?-Id.

19. Which when Beelzebub perceived, than whom Satan except, none higher sat, with grave

Aspect he arose.-Id.

20. Deliver us from the nauseous repetition of as and 80, which some so so writers, I may call them so, are continually sounding in our ears.-Felton.

21. All the conspirators save only he

Did what they did in envy of great Cæsar.-Shakspeare.

22. Night shades the groves, and all in silence lie, All save the mournful Philomel and 1.-Young.

23. The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled.-Hemans.

24. The bells sounded soft and pensive.—Chandler.

25. You have not thought it worth your labor to enter a professed dissent against philosophy.

26. Whatsoever is worthy of their love is worth their anger.

27. It is worth while to consider how admirably he has turned the course of his narration.-Addison.

28. To bring action to extremity, and then recover all, will cost him many a pang-Dryden.

29. While yet we live, scarce one short hour perhaps, Between us two, let ere be peace both joining.-Milton.

30. Me miserable! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair?-Id.

31.

Ay me! they little know

How dearly I abide that boast so vain.-Id.

32. Well, sir, said I, how did you like little Miss? I hope she was fine enough.—Bos. Life of Johnson.

33. Can I this world esteem?

How soon its honors vanish!
Its riches-they are dust!~

Its joys-a lying name!-Pfefferkorn.

34. The landlord says it is Luther himself." Perhaps," returned his companion, "he said Hutten ?"—“ Probably so," said Kessler; "I may have mistaken the one name for the other, for they resemble each other in sound.—D'Aubigne.

35. Thou sittest, no longer, a queen in thy bower,

But a widow; of sons and of daughters bereft

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