The dew is dried up', the star is shot', the flight is past', the man
forgot`.
He tried each art', reproved each dull delay', allured to brighter worlds'
and led the way`.
They will celebrate it with thanksgiving', with festivity' with bonfires',
with illuminations`.
He was so young', so intelligent', so generous', so brave so everything',
that we are apt to like in a young man`.
My doctrine shall drop as the rain', my speech shall distill as the dew',
as the small rain upon the tender herb' and as the showers upon the grass`.
THE CIRCUMFLEX OR WAVE.
The Circumflex is a union of the two inflections, and is of two kinds;
viz., the Rising and the Falling Circumflex. The rising circumflex begins
with the falling, and ends with the rising inflection; the falling
circumflex begins with the rising, and ends with the falling inflection.
Positive assertions of irony, raillery, etc., have the falling circumflex,
and all negative assertions of doubled meaning will have the rising. Doubt,
pity, contrast, grief, supposition, comparison, irony, implication,
sneering, raillery, scorn, reproach, and contempt, are all expressed by the
use of the wave of the circumflex.
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