True cheerfulness makes a man happy in himself, and promotes the
happiness of all around him.
Modesty always appears graceful in youth: it doubles the lustre of every
virtue which it seems to hide.
He who, every morning, plans the transactions of the day, and follows
out that plan, carries on a thread that will guide him through the
labyrinth of the most busy life.
The king gave me a generous reward for committing that barbarous act;
but, alas! I fear the consequence.
E'en now, where Alpine solitudes ascend,
I set me down a pensive hour to spend;
And, placed on high, above the storm's career,
Look downward where a hundred realms appear:--
Alas! the joys that fortune brings,
Are trifling, and decay;
And those who mind the paltry things,
More trifling still than they.
NOTE. In the second sentence of the foregoing exercises, _which_ is
governed by the verb _to hide_, according to RULE 16. _He_ is nom.
to _carries; who_ is nom. to _plans. Follows_ agrees with _who_
understood, and is connected to _plans_ by _and_; RULE 34. What did
the king give? A _reward to_ me. Then _reward_ is in the _obj_.
case, gov. by _gave_; RULE 20. _Me_ is gov. by _to_ understood; NOTE
1, RULE 32. The phrase, _committing that barbarous act_, is gov. by
_for_; NOTE 2, under RULE 28. _Hour_ is in the _obj_. case, gov. by
_to spend_; RULE 20. _Look_ is connected to _set_ by _and_; RULE 34.
_Joys_ is nom. to _are. That_ is gov. by _brings_; RULE 16. _Those_
is nom. to _are_ understood. _They_ is nom. to _are_ understood;
RULE 35.