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"So little mercy shows [--] who needs so much."&mdash;Cowper.

"Bliss is the same [--] in subject, as [--] in king;   In [--] who obtain defence, and [--] who defend."&mdash;Pope.

"Man made for kings! those optics are but dim   That tell you so&mdash;say rather, they [--] for him."&mdash;Cowper.

"Man may dismiss compassion from his heart,   But God will never [---]."&mdash;Id.

"Vigour [--] from toil, from trouble patience grows."&mdash;Beattie.

"Where now the rill melodious, [--] pure, and cool,   And meads, with life, and mirth, and beauty crown'd?"&mdash;Id.

"How dead the vegetable kingdom lies!   How dumb the tuneful []!"&mdash;Thomson.

"Self-love and Reason to one end aspire,   Pain [--] their aversion, pleasure [--] their desire;    But greedy that its object would devour,    This [--] taste the honey, and not wound the flower."&mdash;Pope.

FIGURE II.&mdash;PLEONASM.
"According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompense."&mdash;Isaiah, lix, 18. "Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night."&mdash;Song of Sol., v, 2. "Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the Lord my God."&mdash;Jer., xxxi, 18. "Consider the lilies of the field how they grow."&mdash;Matt., vi, 28. "He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord."&mdash;2 Cor., x, 17. "He too is witness, noblest of the train   That wait on man, the flight-performing horse."&mdash;Cowper.

FIGURE III.&mdash;SYLLEPSIS.
"'Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas:' which is, by interpretation a stone."&mdash;John, i, 42. "Thus saith the Lord of hosts, 'Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might.'"&mdash;Jer., xlix, 35. "Behold, I lay in Sion a stumbling-stone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed."&mdash;Rom., ix, 33. "Thus Conscience pleads her cause within the breast,   Though long rebell'd against, not yet suppressed."&mdash;Cowper.

"Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much;   Wisdom is humble that he knows no more."&mdash;Id.

"For those the race of Israel oft forsook   Their living strength, and unfrequented left    His righteous altar, bowing lowly down    To bestial gods."&mdash;Milton, Paradise Lost, B. i, l. 432.

FIGURE IV.&mdash;ENALLAGE.
"Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself   Are much condemned to have an itching palm,    To sell and mart your offices for gold."&mdash;Shakspeare.

"Come, Philomelus; let us instant go,   O'erturn his bow'rs, and lay his castle low."&mdash;Thomson.

"Then palaces shall rise; the joyful son   Shall finish what the short-liv'd sire begun"&mdash;Pope.

"Such was that temple built by Solomon,   Than whom none richer reign'd o'er Israel."&mdash;Author.

"He spoke: with fatal eagerness we burn,   And quit the shores, undestin'd to return."&mdash;Day.