XL. - QUARREL OF THE AUTHORS. DICTION, n., language; style. BALLAD, n., a short narrative song. PLA'GI-A-RIST (-je), n., one who passes off another's writings as his own. METER OF ME'TRE, n., measure as applied to verse. MAIN-TAIN', v. t., to uphold. Do not say Latn for Latin; statoo for stat'ue. Pronounce often, of'n. Enter BAVIUS and MEVIUS, meeting. Bavius. Sir, I'm proud to have met you. Long have I known Your productions, and often I've wished them my own. Your verses have beauties in none other found. Mevius. In yours all the graces of diction abound. Ba. Can any thing equal your love-ditties rare ? Ba. You'd roll through the streets in a carriage of gold. Ba. Pray, sir, have you met with a sonnet On the flag of our country? Me. A sonnet? Just so. "T was read at a party, a few nights ago. Ba. Do you know who's the author? For 't is an exceedingly trifling affair. Ba. Yet many admire it or so they tell me. And if you had but seen it, sir, you'd think so too. Me. May the Muses preserve me from making the like. Me. You? Ba. I. Me. Well, I wonder how that came to pass. Me. Perhaps there was something distracted my head; Ba. The days of the ballad methinks are gone by ; Me. You think them Perhaps they're no worse, sir, for that. Ba. For pedants, indeed, they have charms beyond measure. Me. And yet we perceive they afford you no pleasure. Ba. Go, scribbler of sonnets, and butcher of meter! plume; Let the Greeks and the Latins their beauties resume. * Quintus Horatius Flaccus, or Horace, a famous Roman poet, born 65 B. C Venus was the goddess of love, and Bacchus the god of wine, in the ancient Mythology. Me. My pen shall avenge me to your great disaster. Ba. And mine shall let you know, sir, who is your master. Me. I defy you in verse, prose, Latin, and Greek! Ba. You shall hear from me, sir, in the course of the week. Imitated from MOLIERE. XLI. THE TWO HOMES. HEARTH (the ea like a in far), n., | TEN'DRIL, n., a spiral shoot of a climb. place on which a fire is made. YON (yon), a., within view. ing plant. SOL'EMN (Sol'em), a., sacredly serious. Do not say hawnt for haunt (the au is like a in far). Give ou in fount and oi in rejoic'ing their pure sounds. Do not say acrost for a-cross'. Do not slight the artic ulation of ask'st. Practice it well. FIRST SPEAKER. SEEST thou my home? - 't is where yon woods are waving, In their dark richness, to the summer air; Where yon blue stream, a thousand flower-banks laving, 'Mid those green wilds how many a fount lies gleaming, My home! the spirit of its love is breathing From its white walls the very tendrils wreathing Seem with soft links to draw the wanderer back. There am I loved, there prayed for; there my mother There, in sweet strains of kindred music blending, One are those tones, as from one heart ascending: There laughs my home, sad stranger! where is thine? SECOND SPEAKER. Ask'st thou of mine? In solemn peace 't is lying, 'Tis where I, too, am loved with love undying, And fond hearts wait my step: but where are they? Ask where the earth's departed have their dwelling; My lonely heart that love unchanged is there. And what is home and where, but with the loving? - My spirit knoweth, in its weary roving, That with the dead, where'er they be, is mine. Go to thy home, rejoicing son and brother! FELICIA HEMANS. (1795-1835.) XLII.-WARREN'S ADDRESS AT THE BATTLE OF BUNKER'S HILL. PEAL, n., a succession of loud sounds, DES'POT, n., a tyrant. as of cannon, &c. QUAIL, v. i., to sink in spirit. MARTYRED, pp., put to death for the truth or for patriotism. The e in the last syllable of leaden and heaven is not sounded. STAND! the ground's your own, my braves! Will ye look for greener graves? Hope ye mercy still? one acter. ZEST, n., relish; flavor. ing right from wrong. CON'SCIENCE, n., the faculty of know TEM'PO-RAL, a., relating to time and I-DE'AL, a., existing in idea. to things of this world. EX-POUND'ER, n., an explainer. CHAR-AC-TER-IS'TIC, a., marking char- IN-VENT'OR, n., one who invents. EAR'NEST, a., zealous; serious. Do not say umble for hum'ble; nootral for neutral; ideel for i-de'al; appint for ap-point'. Pronounce discern, diz-zern'. celebrated 1. THE career of Thomas Arnold, the distinguished instructor of youth, though teeming with the poetry who instinct Maninding ༩ ༢༠, |