Name the figures in the following passages, and state what is gained by
the use of each:—
1. Some people are too foolish to commit follies.
2. Youth and beauty must be laid in the grave.
3. A true friend, like a mirror, will tell us of our faults.
4. War flings his blood-stained banner to the breeze.
5. The light of the Constitution shines in the palace and the
cottage.
6. Though gentle, yet not dull;
Strong, without rage; without o’erflowing, full.—_Denham._
7. There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to
fortune.—_Shakespeare._
8. Sweet friends! What the women lave
For its last bed of the grave,
Is a hut which I am quitting,
Is a garment no more fitting.—_Arnold._
9. Ayr, gurgling, kissed his pebbled shore,
O’erhung with wild woods, thickening green;
The fragrant birch and hawthorn hoar
Twined amorous round the raptured scene.—_Burns._
10. And, as a bird each fond endearment tries
To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies,
He tried each art, reproved each dull delay,
Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.—_Goldsmith._
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=LESSON LXXI.=