TO HOW ^ READ; booik: T):rxilj1l" FOB THE 0f llje ^oia, C"ltiljali0" ^^talimg FOB AND Correct FOR ABAPTED AND Teacher USE THE FOR PRIVATE BY RICHARD oj Elocution, Author ADAM Reading. Expressive and MILLER OF SCHOOLS, INSTRUCTION. LEWIS, of " 1%^ " 1877. Dominion COMPANY. "ke. ElociUionist^" according Entered in Miller the the to " of Co. in the of Parliament Office and hundred eight thousand one year Act of the Minister , fliOBB PRINTING COMPANT, TORONTO, the Dominion seventy-seven^ of Agriculture. of Canada^ by Adam PREFACE. this object of The with and speaking voice, tend the improve in and is book and improve the ear. The voice the of speech music the in the develope to quick speech, teaching importance, heart, the to as around muscles the as lungs, exercises be the vocal of bad examples and preserved utter and correct and sounds. basis, and that a to the to true art. system our also are action the organs, which agents of the healthy important pression ex- scientific give and ear give upon gymnastics by are combine and the established, the teacher the This protects of action method it founded is the and true subject to sounds of be must position of the the attacks and If speech language of both local used organs on true all the guided letters, independent places pronunciation against a are the upon provincial corruptions. and sounds which consonants Pronunciation refined, approved customs, to and exercises influences the ing. read- flexible, which tone founded the is youth culture, and of those vowels the language. by and vigorous all and throat, the important agents of qualitiesof into of expressive the voice vocal culture vince Pro- all exercises are culture chest, and of the be the they bring phonetics is to ear the organization, and beneficial, and speciesof the and vocal variations of of upon with associated the the of voice. produce The a the schools embrace direction for some exercises These fii'st read to the correct the as system a fail to principlescannot and and ; appreciate all to to of of condition best the in instruction first sections The supply systematic training in of course a is to work a to scientific corruptions of PREFACE. IT Hence local customs. and to read it is of the that speak correctly, with familiar drill,be made first the the true importance in teaching pupilshould,by regular sounds of the vowels and consonants. It is is succeeded and to the culture that must there are the to most are the utter that the voice of the voice of adult age; the^^^ voice,without it, would and youth changes, drill devoted any to the reference changes positively injurious. But be preparatory exercises in vocal gymnastics,as there quicken the or of by succeed all other in remember important to are gymnastics,which strengthen the muscles and without senses injuryto their future development, changes which adult the appropriateto neglectof this life bringsupon them of the school sphere the principle, utter these ; and It is room. absence ture of all cul- speakingvoice in the education of youth,that makes in speechand expressivereading such rare qualities of the musical after life. sections devoted The to expressivereadingare explainedon of sentential analysis. It is true that a thorough principles of a passage are the best and just understandingand conception guidesto its expressivedelivery. But all this pre-supposes a The ripenedjudgment, a cultivated voice, and an acute ear. the exercises secure " of the first sections of this Drill Book" qualifications.But the last two the first is not possessedby youth. The preparatory step is pupil familiar with the structure of the sentences be of all the members garb of learn the A to the thought,and understand thoughtsby pupil who to each the the could thought, or bearings and the of the fathom the depth a a and likelyto make to and of the the lation re- is the sentence relative structure intensityof between taught to distinguish The drilled in pupilsare as study not other. fail to cannot analysisthey importanceof the sentences. breadth of an stract ab- passion,could easilybe principaland a subordinate T PREFACE. clause phrase ; yet or mainly guided by be the convinced has The best while to establish yet scientific States have as placethe the first to all who indebted of the Public Voice list of teachers and of this book students may of Yocal find Culture Professor Monroe has established Boston, and his book exercises the and practice; attention marks on be blished esta- was the on Professor are Philosophy work. To this Appended is which the The plan Monroe, the Superintendent Schools of selected from Boston, and his manual. of his system in success safelytaken form, as a model for similar in Ontario. specialseries A may one. Rush cpnsulted, and the and the United any useful for reference. been broad been Dr. in other in the Public nothing scientific basis ; and a any has of several of the illustrations have Book" ing teachingread- largelyindebted. he to that is similar to is which books other than more the as every have to or taught it subject, of this book the author work the by place. on a ; but in attention Reading done on Reading eloquentand profound treatise to his Human of Art studied have have admitted the foremost taken have art an well as of this "Drill we been beyond this,and gone a expressivereading. leadingUniversities with ; and subjectis advancingin public basis, its necessityhas in connection must of elocution art system of teaching to read our of England, professorships for formed easiest in this Province in sentiment. In that view been have can suggestive.The ; and estimation for instruction that the author hope is that it will be a have that this is the author method successful most In the largeand long experiencein teachingthe very preparingthe the sentence. analysisof the rules in this book and principles the be first studies in elocution the that it is considered Hence would study very profounder analysisof for the scholar dullest that page as of selections follows most of the illustrations of the reader xii. the is directed instruction,marked are to the similarlymarked, explanationof the TI PREFACE. The Examination form original, an demand They a knowledge, this as necessary to the that skill and of that they who and subject-matter will be as the reading the well The demand they of theory and suggestive good spirit and from of useful. reading, the text, in it, successful their ledge know- prepared candidate a of understood the for the and suggested who but work. least were been the the the candidates have questions book the candidate, say They sufficient test to to Inspectors, not was of of the is, well. end feature from County anxious was theory the at important teachers, to of one reading of knowledge the by Questions most of in principles. object, and knowledge skill as in novel, and especially author teacher, a Papers not with only knowledge author of trusts CONTENTS. Section I. PAGE The Organs Breath Management of Hints Teacher... the to General 1 Speech of the Physical 4 6 7 Culture.. Section Exercises Chest 12 Chest Expansion, Voice Movements How II. Hold to Voice 18 Tones Diphthongal Practice on of Vowel Analysis 15 17 the and Vowel Exercises Book of Pure Production Breath with 19 Sounds 22 Vowels 25 Sounds 27 Articulation 29 Sounds Practice on Vowel Practice on Consonants 33 36 Section Modulation Scale for Reading III. 40 : Pitch and Tone 42 Gamut 43 Inflection Quality and Orotund Force 45 Force 47 Voice ob 48 Stress 50 Section Principles Rhetorical of Expressive Pauses Reading IV. 58 68 VIII INDEX. Principlbs of Inflection 61 Pitch 69 Rate Movement OB 80 Emphasis 81 The Emphatic Tie 85 Transition 87 Imitative Modulation Section Accent, Hints Rhythm, on and Reading for V. Metre 103 Poetry 106 Section Selections 94 VI. Peaotice Examination Papers Examination Questions 110 141 168 ,. Method The exercises all grades Schools. These into branches, two the by adapted these of to Thus the all the and with all the is The the commenced lower grades appropriate the which the of the Fourth such former the parts of speech that orotund the the is that all and in safely may class ; vantageou ad- and and that to sounding correctly, and the vowels may " second classes expected Reader. as those for and of the voice belongs voice has set just entering the nants conso- the to in on of ; and that the the have pupils however, and and grammar before few, sion, comprehen- completeness with Fourth full Inflection, and sentence, be introduced those A on the or their knowledge be depending thought certainly with when capacity capitals. alphabet and scarcely can through The best indicates the to tised prac- are contents type, gymnastics, experience leading principles, and safely indispensable. analysis, " divided be which adapted principles of expressive reading, for passed be can exercises the Collegiate properly of roman practice vocal is small in in the table in Chest and be require Pause The and those (2) all that higher grades Public very and designed are which and grades, printed Breathing may Book. book in Those (1) by having grades this pupils higher grades. lower adapted in of : lowest very branches two the viz. Drill the exercises,however, the to Using instruction and for arranged of of for even or latter studies the of the pleteness incomon the Third Reader, period of although period early manhood, it is should quite fitting have some METHOD of knowledge drill and the The improved, the to really The teacher the movements long of on If a should naming leading be manhood be can useless this Chapter and unwise which quality, be varied^ and cially espe- The with lesson and : he method Chest " the order, but no one singly able to set the example or second should not is to tailed, cur- section. practise dwell take exercises, and an pupils. exercises Inflection even the and but best of is I., lengthened time lessons other, Section III., begin the each of too portions Breathing, Pitch, occupying the ing followwhole lesson. teacher the he in other each in successive Articulation, Vocalization, of in lessons youth may exercise. one any of after one would exercises in voice it necessities important should several time the to BOOK. manhood. which exercise, according The of Culture Physicial occasional of age the yet voice DRILL THE which by immature belongs USING method the strengthened to OF features is always as he gives of the start the passage. a, practice example, of expressive with simultaneous with his own ing, read- ing, read- voice, the / of Explanation I Brief II Long " . inflection. word) the over Monotone. circumflex. Rising ^^ circumflex. Falling " Swelling at the beginning " Swelling in the middle. " Swelling at the end. Emphasis indicated Stronger emphasis Strongest H. P. L. P. High Low by by emphasis Middle M.P. this inflection. (Dash "^ in pause. ) Falling " used pause. ( ') Rising (^ Marks pitch. pitch. pitch. of the voice. italics. small by heavy capitals. faced type. Work, Works The and Prof. by of Principles Monroe. B. Russell. Wm. Speech, Cultivation Thelwall's Lectures on Voice, Human English Prosodia Rationalis, Lectures on 1775. the the Art Voice, by Dr. Hullah. Plumptre. College. Princeton Voice. Dr. by for Abbott's Bell. Elocution. on Cazalet Prof. by Mcllvaine, Prof. by M. A. Speaking Lectures, College W. by the of Elocution, Rev. Rush. Manual, Elocutionary King's Lewis by Dr. By Book* Elocution. Vandenhoff's Bell's Voice, Human Drill the Preparing Training, Physical Orthophony, The the of Philosophy Vocal The in Consulted the by of Trail. English Joshua Reading, People. Steele. by 1779. Thoa. Sheridan, A. M. I. SECTION I. CHAPTER The extensive An 1. to the necessary the of vocal a the teacher chest is formed in front of attached in front connected the by the to the sternum, the form wall hinge, so the lungs. the voice outer 3. the In as These They the well the lower as the the fill the of cavity chest of lessons of other the of a framework ribs the each to ones important internal consist organs This pairs of impediment of culture, It consists vertebrae, and each cavity tion posi- placed perpendicularly structure, they no the aid names and vocal on muscles. twelve the to action organs. are by to soft and of chest, and ones These of the the are upper joined a to which other. organs fact, all judicious exercises lungs occupying heart. offer they enlarge walls and vocal dorsal in their sternum that and the protecting and, although bony to twelve will sternum, or breast, and their the as is not pupil. elastic by breastbone, behind to of the but treatises all the organization music; structures of seat of or in to their vocal used, and often studies is the framework bony ribs the and The 2. of the delivery referred view brief very of are organs frequently are of knowledge study Speech. of Organs chest; the tebrae, ver- elastic free action of arms and of the strengthen the organs. the the cavity. heart chest They and on the each constitute lungs, side the the of the basis ^ DRILL BOOK. of the breathingand blood-circulating organs, and are separated from the stomach and blood-creating organs and the intestines by another organ of great importanceto the full exercise and development of the lungs and the voice the diaphragm. The is a membrane that lies across diaphragm the contraction and body, and by its muscular dilatation " it becomes the principal agent in inspiration and expiration. 4. The air enters, and before of innumerable the blood which over the heart it re-enters bronchial in formed lungs are cells into which passes, that it may for circulation. be fied puri- All these arteries,veins, lymphatics and nerves, sels, ves- held are compact form by the cellular tissue,called parenchyma. one The air through lungs receive the outward vocal organ, the trachea, or windpipe. This another part, branches pass off into left,and and the subdivided are and ramified in its lower organ, divisions,which two important the to right throughout the entire ture lungs. At the top of the windpipe is the larynx, whose strucis especially adapted to produce voice. The construction and too minute for explanationin of this organ is complicated, this It work. of the air opening, or closes as by contraction will we sound no is the When produced ; but is heard. and sound the mouth, is the entrance and a to broader a the will palateof sounding board above passage the mouth expanded by speech. 5. The Just ; and so the mouth to as and cords. the as the edges of the larynx,and we the the passage upon glottis,which voice. produce to that it acts of its muscles sing the aperture is narrowed, or as the state entrance, is called entirelyopened of is sufficient to opens passage Its or is will to speak glottis vibrate, between it and called the pharynx, which is this pharynx can be contracted to form importantmodifications is give tone arched, and and admirably adapted purity to the voice, and palateis called the projection the back of the elevated soft and little organ This voice. productionof be can portant im- very It is always speak, and we has moving, elevated at it is very much pressed depractice. When into the larynx raised, the breath passes becomes the voice disagreeably nasal, little a and and nose pendulous,forming a tonguelike uvula. depressed as or will after the the in uses 3 BOOK. DRILL losing"all purity its action, Hence of tone. the conditions the ling control- importance of of pure require the elevation of the uvula, the depression of the larynx, and the enlargement to the fullest extent of the pharnyx. 6. The The the fulness deep clearness of is due the of action completes the vocal exercise. with vigour,so and most the action 8. Again, the The the and voice structure around the other hand, when is is a most the on contracted,and the is, correct of the of teeth cells which of the secure thus, aided curve executed capacity,open lie almost diaphragm inactive thus the organ by utmost is and vigour and diaphragm expels the we of have a general health. chieflyto with speech. important function conversation, and action the upper the depend tongue; that " their utmost lungs to remote contributes voice. out the gracefulexecution common proper curving upwards, drives the of beneficial effect purityof sounds voice tongue ; and while protruding or lips is ungraceful,their right management fillthe to as process muscles of of organs Frequent breathing exercises,when bring into during orotund vigorous action a breath of the action consonant finished and inhalation of tones tone all essential lips are proper to the with combining The rich and and articulation" 7. and depression and indolent teeth tongue, speech. upon as the air the abdominal power and by relaxingand abdominal force, while kept steady and muscles, the easy. bony On inhale, the lungs fall,the diaphragm becomes flattened and depressed. 4 BOOK. DRILL vocal cords 9. The demands always air for more will be it respiration, vigorousand regularin Great could effect 10. It is the as become calculated will mere their of more that the they speaker. under are organs reportedof Madame practicethat gives Mara that she great scientific. be to these power It then when and ; this is pubHc cords. attended never speakers lose caused injury is never by overof the logical by speaking in violation physio- the voices but speaking, santly inces- 2,000 changes. consequences their common renew cords has been this, as it is as many vocal at the changes practicemust bad by speech,it discipline ; and for it is to important far exceed singers can constant But different 240 than song it as action,with judiciouspractice.In their of practice,as undergo speech and how seen the air ; and by upon supplies. Besides, these the common acted be mii^t which laws the govern voice and its secure health. of the Management 11. The rule should invariable action nasal the prevents beneficial 12. and " to the vocal whole Nothing be can nothing scarcely of gasping in merely but Take when reading at all times only through tendency bronchial this or the nostrils. tg disease tubes, the or practices the " which throat often its ; and One speaker or it brings into in speech. important part an follows a It sudden general effect,too, is structure. hurtful to the the air,without as golden a all assure weakness observance pure larynx any you most of then I be or the hold it taken rule of the the voice, lungs,than method, breath earnestly,that lungs or this and the circumstances, of the qualityof system rule, that speaking,though 1 attention. nostrils. injurious to the under and the the mouth more more mouth. the through the habit open of careful in all vocal play which passages, strong inhalation and demands through irritation that breath be observed inhale should reader of the management Breath. by should, not indispensable^ into the if there lungs be any larynx, trachea is of vital the or importance to 6 DRILL words. This is most important to there largeassemblies,as breath. of The 10, exercises The the will from all who always and neglect of the and practisethem to speak before greater consumption of in vocal is power breathing. vate especiallyadapted to culti- breath ; and will derive teachers as well Hints 17. I. Do II. and Practise hour one III. or and in the open, It is science school than ercises. ex- long. results than generally follow or exactingon the mind. always some The welcomed study ing breath- by the let open air the air much as be pure as as and possible, when windows possible, etc. Practise V. the in amusement. in the room ; vary produce better will healthful,and are exercise one regularly rather and exercises wearisome Practise at to Teacher. week. per vocal shouting pupils. IV. the has been which minutes hours two Let long too frequently ten II. Suggestions continue not Daily practiceof allow the standing up, body pupilsto sway about erect or as use at any militarydrill. Do ungracefulaction position. or VI. and as the greatest benefit them. CHAPTER not a decay are of economy faitMully have this economy offered in this work management pupils who is then exhaustion to the largelydue BOOK. Insist upon instantaneous. all exercises being uniform, simultaneous VII. into every exercise by your EXAMPLE. own YIII. a enthusiasm life and Throw 7 BOOK. DRILL small look Do IX. X. Do much get be not XI. afraid of nothing loud with to be as Change through go pupilor practice,while any in exercise doing an fail,the laugh violence so by occasionally gettingone the listen. and on If you class. pupilsto of group others the exercises Vary the arms, and from the let the never good. Use not voice too exercises harsh. unpleasant or often do all injures. excess as excess, will follows that yourself before the violent the to gentle,and vice the play versa. XII. K ground,get the either in the school room, pupilsto practisevocal marching, keeping when in have you time with General feet, of every kind and voices arms, III. Physical Culture. 18. Gymnastic exercises,especiallysuch of great importance, exercises 19. of the It is of 20. should and always useful to the actions, and will following exercises, taken guide teachers act on the always be associated commence gymnastic establishments The as chest with muscles, the special succeeding sections, preliminarymuscular some to exercises or harmony. CHAPTER are room who have had no any serve from specialvocal practice with of the the ments move- purpose. various previous drilL preparatory sources, will assist 8 DRILL BOOK. CARRIAGE side,and the at the the knees keep so that the heels shall touch together, left like a V; be pointed to right and toes straight,let the the middle fingershould if in open the file the front,with back be drawn the close to the weight of the drawn slightly body the hands Repeat to fast. too the call out After one, backs should ance appear- not thrown so the fore back, the front. Exercise. Bring hands points; and then at the of the teacher expertness with the ders, shoul- hands callingout has level,arms same been meet one, behind. two one, " let acquired, the two. Second the any on principally straightin front, level make 23. at First " times, the many pupilsalso I. full to palms meeting. and try straight, two, not turned incliningforward, but erect Separatethe hands, keepingthem II. pants, forefinger ; the hip bear may be to Extension the of the seam to the in,and the eyes lookingstraight 22. I. Stretch close to the sides ; to be are body straightand part of the feet; the head chin the straightfrom Ihe breast advanced, but without and of stiffness ; the that the hand of palms down in and parallelwith be the thumb hang arms be turned shoulders,and the elbows or BODY. Place the feet close 21. the THE OF Exercise. to the arms raise them with front till the circular fingersmeet motion over the head, tipsof fingersstill touching. II. Throw the hands smartly,palms and let them ke^p the neck turned fall and up, separatingthem, extending the inwards ; then graduallyto the chest elevated. force them arms obliquelyback positionof ''attention"; Third 24. II. Close the hands the hands III. and level with are Send forth they touch II. Drive III. the the with down them hands and upwards hands until the utmost force. equal energy. in front of in line with the body the the to full tent ex- mouth, palms meeting, noise. Separate the hands smartly, throwing ; at the slanting downwards raise the time same well back, them body the on part of the feet. III. positionNo. I. In this times before giving three. Resume several I. Assume position,throwing pointof the feet. Raise body as in Exercise 5. the TT. exercise repeat and one Sixth Exercise. 27, the closed with upwards arms the without on Exercise. turning the arms, of the arms, two until smartly back elbows Fifth Exercise. I. Raise IL exercise,palms upwards. shoulders. the Bring first the sides. 26. fore bi-ingthe Fourth I. Bend in as again with great vigour. 25, but Exercise. in front the hands I. Stretch 9 BOOK. DRILL Separate the hands the the hands weight clenched smartly,throwing the line with the shoulders,back of the hand of the arms downwards. body in front of back in 10 DRILL III. to the Swing BOOK. round arms quickly as possiblefrom as front rear. 28. Seventh I. Assume Exercise. Stretch position. tightlyclosed. II. this exercise very a up slowly over the circles,first forward in with hands, fists ^ them Bring both out head, and and then Practise slowly. also make them backward. volve re- Perform walking, and especially hill. Pole 29. I. Take pole, light, and a with the ends of the Exercise. two extended arms about from six each feet and other, hold long; as it the near pole as possible. whirl raise it and II. Now it behind the head, then over to the front. Whirl III. the head with reaches the to the front. each it from one other side of for repeat II. until class words of to a circuit a brought until round it again times, counting aloud fifty. This is a splendid chest, march as poem is many reach you developing the the the Exercise. in order, they march. and sing any March song or quicklyand slowly. March Exercises under body, and Marching I. Get recite the other, taking it behind passing in this exercise Repeat 30. the to then movement, circirit made exercise side one slowly and of this kind over as difiiculties, recite are uneven quickly. all the better ground, or for being practised up a hill or staira ; DRILL they only not control the the be may of It 31. is that the class organs used ; and the in them to whatever dependently in- act can organs all the will these suffice exercises voice regular from before practice each of the be cold, is colds. against Avith sponged to cold water All everj^ chest as the colds and never possible, folds the delicate the should carefully so chest, to great strengthen The temperance. air inviting throat best the only not in up really the the the to open throats are ought injurious around as their endangers guard also should and organization and exceedingly free wrap vocal exercise general compressions be who exposure best the are catching throat open tobacco Tight People them by the strengthen to health should throat slightest but vocal pupil that so ; through go drilled of wish voice. the summer. The who general drinks of The be to two or all the sustain keep to is One Finally, alcoholic or and the exercises. 32^ be train actions lungs necessary follows. regular to but them. not time every the doing, lungs, speaking and breathing limbs the strengthen 11 BOOK. winter of cloth they fear. wrapped internal back, morning to up. organs, and throat throughout the year. 33- A spirits ice tobacco and creams, ductioM very of also diet proper a good ; cold voic" all and is of the greasy very first food, hot importance, too di*inks, much are besides butter, detrimental abstinence from candies, sweets, to the pro- SECTION II. I. CHAPTER Exercises. Chest Position. I. ; thumbs on dorsal the erect, but muscles on slightly foot ; one in each on front, in arms the and side of the spine backward and thrown stiff; shoulders not foot one muscles abdominal back or apart; resting body ; fingers pressing akimbo head moderately other the of advance Feet " ^ Manual.) Exercises. Breathing 34- the Monroe's from (Adapted downward. Chest. Active II. part of the Fig. 1. Chest. fall,and and resting. Aim at chest, See exercises. futu^ Deep 35. Inhale I. Send II. slowly tain the and as in vigour if as Fig. the }et six the quietly, as active \Jf /f^% times. sustaining the for all ! i 1 J li^i JM i 1. ^m Breathing. the blow. jf^^ fatigued when upper defying a nostrils, and keep \ f 11 still. out the and chest position best adapted quickly through shoulders the and the muscles; exercises these it is the as the relapse Repeat gracefulness expand slightly back, Relax " entire the chest active it body, throwing Passive III. and Raise " breath in position. common through the mouth breathing. Sus- I jl "Wl^^^fe^ Fig. 1. ; u DRILL Exercises. Recapitulatory 41. each Repeat with of the littlepause as above between CHEST I. Fix the Fig. 2, hands AND bent arms ARM tap the able to the below collar the the the chest just Take breath in a trils. nos- during Fig. 2. Strike of the the on chest wrists fingers, counted, common breathe Caution. slack. ; two The " be free from blows should I. Inhale full with breath, swing the chest with the upon left upon time the not first ; then force,but in the with flat collar bone. times. right side each and Arm the The ; inhale give See hand. as Movement. arms slack heavy blows of the fingers, the left side of the II. Exhale peat six lightat alternatelywith shoulder but giving elastic, joints, strikes be beincreased Percussion justbelow four long as violence. 43. the as the flat can be through nostrils,count two, inhale deep, counts. Repeat first exercise. practiceis easy they may from Strike with time. before as rapid percussiveblows held III. Grive out breath each - exercise. II. upon as so deep inspirationthrouglithe Hold MOVEMENTS. in as bone. given,and of the Chest. towards open in the order possible. as chest,fingersslightlybent, be exercises Fercussion 42. to BOOK. righthand chest,and two blows Fig. 3. before,and re. must when the always 15 BOOK. DRILL II. CHAPTER Chest 44. Position. close to fists Elbows " the side bent sharply ; fore-arm breath I. Strike and hold the Take a with force and muscles and ing open- hands, palm downwards. II. Draw former and it in. forward relaxing the grace, Exercises. horizontal, clenched, palm upward. deep Breath with Expansion, energeticallyback arms position, expanding the to chest by the action. Breathing accompanying 45* I. Hold the draw filled, are out arms the as in 1, then suddenly arms Action. inhale. in and When expel the breath lungs at the time. same Repeat six times. I. Raise the II. Draw above arms them the suddenly head down and and inhale. expel breath. Repeat six times. Shoulder 46. Clenched fore so Bring to as the touch II. Throw in each the other, about the Arms. shoulders, palms forward, outward. fore ^ inches While six times. arms back to the side, positions,fists clenched, expel the breath. Repeat three Inliale air. commencing palms of Bent hands, palms inward open in front of chin. as side " vertical. arms I. fists at the Movement practisingthis ment move- 16 DRILL BOOK. 47. Breathing and Arm I. the fingersto Bring shoulders,and front and drive ; combined. the inhale the breath. II. Strike clenched the tips of Action downwards with the palms turned out the the breath fists the to with the movement. keep In this movement done be by body steady expulsion of the let and the the muscles abdominal the breath M and diaphragm. Exercises 48, The of power forth his pectoraland A the the will, is very speaker to weariness. and muscles 3. Line for the relaxed in Line the expand necessary take Hence the lungs to exercises diaphragm should be upon Position the chest expiration. front walls abdomen in of the and 7, 8. Their tracted con- 6. of spiration. in- position expiration. ACTION OF THE to the frequent. of inspiration.5, stantane in- energetic full breath and a diaphragm of direction when in in the and respiration. 1. 2. Cavity chest. abdomen. direction 4. at without abdominal in Cavity of when voice to contract Muscles. side view of the chest and abdomen of and It enables vocal exercises. send being able vigour with Abdominal the on DIAPHRAGM. and (1) Contract I. the with several times of expand the muscles lungs filled. (2.) Repeat expellingthe breath, but and and breath Inhale II. becomes while inhaling is thrown outwards the the and breath, abdomen is inward drawn flattened. and exercises These full stomach, nor stricture any of voice with mixed and pure in as a Ha^ half convert each into Avoid the time. do not whisper. breath The breath send out tone should be quick. I. Inhale be a voice whisper and the Alternately. a then moment, There sound. the voice sound. be must Thus no Whisper. Yoice. ah ah ah breath after every third pause : Whisper. II. Take sound the third explosivewhisper twice,and sudden a ah let the Voice and before, retain the breath as (asin at) in between breath, mere throat,and the Breath time Movement exclamation irritates which violence Arm' drivingout sound, utteringthe practisedwitha 45, 46, 47. exercises of par. instead But be never the waist. on and Voice Repeat they should silent,and are 49, ah abdomen rapidly. not that the abdomen so the convex. Expel III. 17 BOOK. DRILL utterance, and repeat six times. In the practising is contracted sound are c and sent last exercises,the shut up forth with as it were accumulated or glottis, for a moment, mouth and explosiveforce. of the the windpipe whisper and 18 DRILL How 50. stand to BOOK. and hold the Book when reading aloud. I. Position. but erect elevated book, thrown eyes should time, with to words many head he as should be fixed not takes in rapid glance at a be the on from the time book, as he should remember, can stand back. the reader as should The not but but reader stiff. not The II. The " look and read to the to audience,especially that that fronts him. part side to the one as to that The book well as IV. never low as V. raised to compel the The righthand be high so wishes to reader rest the conceal to bend may left hand. the face, nor his head at the the gesticulate the movement whole head. a please. may little towards If the reader the room, He he must may, the sitting, standing. It the should held so But body. should arm The and easilyerect, the rightfoot gracefully VI. room it over side of the being from the reader angles as left turned eyes him. in to as of his the farthest part of the to held direction be if raised shoulder,not the elbow, however, will be frequentlybent, and The elbow. other, and should all occasionally, be ing readthe immediately near be the reader various when if, moves words, he occasionally the from effect will be better The III. wish not the to in advance part of the must and the his the other side of body sideways, but only his to one or however, change the positionof upper limbs left. turn turn lower at body should be his feet. When erect as when DRILL 19 BOOK. CHAPTEE, Pure tones and speaking singing. gutturalsounds or and impure, are are OF 52. Let the teacher,before mirror the mouth. If he sound ah he in deep a uvula, or little tongue rise,while the tongue lies nasal the twang, and tongue into Let ; this sound, the exercises then he iwill see action the be on full tone, he will back back fall and mouth able to the see the mouth of and ah sound to appear forces conduct the a part of top of the windpipe the with a touch to the or sound pure following : " Interior of the mouth Interior of the mouth the when the his instructio preparation for forming this will teacher the before tones fall at the uvula give to endeavour the closes With nostrils. the flat and him of use wrong producing pure the descends. a commences palateand trachea by MOUTH, lightshall the most as caused THE of processes that placed so well as breathing. defective MANAGEMENT study the TONES. agreeable,both in sounds, huskiness, wheezing, or shrill All nasal speech, and by of organs healthiest the are PURE OF PRODUCTION 51. III. tone when is the tone is pure. impure. I. Direct the mouth, larynx the pupil to open Fig. 2. The in as is raised uvula of the ; the top of the is depressed; the root tongue is depressed. Fig. 2. 53* The action pupil is recommended take hold " or is similar "to to that think imagine you a are of gaping, and gape." If the taking hold " accomphsh it the ceed, gaping does not sucof some heavy object, to 20 DRILL and lift it with the all your this shows it under neck, close 54* be The the mirror, a the the uvula deepest tone rises in necessary be insisted mouth gives of the pure it is 56. falls. be can back as this may apple. will, as all elevation of at organ sounded ah in the descends. in tone pure musical mouth These ; gamut. first himself exercise part of the he This Adam's higher ; (3) proceed upwards tone one before contract as a he the conditions are well-opened mouth, therefore, must indispensableto full pure tone ; a contracted A tone. and contracted a 2 pharynx front described,(1) sound practisethis expand as upon, to the tongue. note, just as in the the see produce Fig. No. the the nccomplished by as that this to control are ah should will then to able voice the lowest pitch, of of part rises and the voice as being fixed and widen part outwardly by touching being of the teacher He mirror. of highest note to this on and by placingthe fingerat the falls felt (2) sound ; (4) descend The and and mouth to the 55* felt dark The depression of the larynx and and The II. action uvula jaw. importance grandest effects the be will raise the aperture. the as can larynx rises in seen Hence vocal and opening ; pushes it forward, This might. the extent necessary BOOK, PURE nasal TONE tone. CONTINUED. " Rules: III. 2. Send 1. Fill the " the voice out usual. lungs as in a straightcolumn to the front of the mouth. 3. shoulders bend is firm them. best made the Keep part seem to and the move. erect, but steady. action when the relaxation of and The done by head it working stiff,and them drag not the expellingsound, like that is gracefullydone. Hence of the of muscles the shoulders, of the of bone and or speaking, the while collar twist or the abdomen diaphragm, and chest up, of contraction chest,the Do not effort is and the the upper scarcely 22 DRILL IX. Finally,sound the nearer, ee BOOK. in as eel,Fig. 6. slit being transverse The lipsare contracted more brought than in the last sound. 57* skill and When sounds, which reallyare derived, are passingwithout 58. The this the the teacher should effort be used. from which the i^ Soften and 59. Correct much the on in any down the be the drilled in the continuous, into another, or voice harsh, let in less tonea. SOUNDSL pronunciation depends the vowels exercise other sounds IT. refined After vowel vowel often impure way distinct pronunciation the consonants. sound DIPHTHONGAL rightsounding of and should AND be above pupils againstforcing the CHAPTER VOWEL of the all other should vowel one warn the sound producingeach exercise interruptionfrom practice. When muscular vowels acquired, are in correctness and on diphthongs ; the vowel sounds plete com- rightsounding of the last on very section,the pupils given in as the lowing fol- table. teacher 60. The the action made. will find of the lips,so that Every care sound fixed of the on the vowel no from watch to secure a provincialisms ; attached examples accord to with to each SOUNDS, Table 61. SIMPLE 1. A, as in arm, 2. as in at, A, balm. can. OR TONIC No. correct and 1. VOWELS. ELEMENTS. and if the vowel, example, the the will follow. VOWEL carefully ungracefularrangement be taken should free pronunciation, be it necessary proper be fined re- tion atten- and the sound DRILL all,law. 3, A, as in 4. E, as in eve, 6. E, as in err. 6. E, as in end, met. 7. I, as in 8. O, as in or, form. 9. O, 10. U, as 11. U, as 12. 00 (long),ooze, 13. 00 look, book. (short), thee, in, charity. in on, as cot. in up. in ^ Wll, Ml. moon, 621 VOWELS. COMPOUND 14. A, 15. I, in ale,compounded as in ice, compounded as in old, compounded as 23 BOOK, of and a e. of a, in far, or u, in run, and i,in it. 16. O, 17. OU, 18. 01, 19. TJ, as in as in as our, in use, is in is ale 00, of a, in at.,and of and ee 00. i,in it. all,and in of aw, compounded the compound, vanish of Ireland given without and I. In the north pronounced or e of ee, in as final Scotland this final get, the is and 00. EXPLANATION. utterance north o compounded oil,compounded 63. A of a sound the which passes into ee. sound of givesgate the vulgar refined and correct In the this letter sound proachin ap- being prolonged. England like oi in and in some parts of Ireland i poznt. Thackeray illustrates this in the 24 DRILL conversation of of the When " Ra" eet (fate). 64. When the I u like in moon, in u Thus Ou compounded fun, our follows " quickly and pidly ra- of becomes te in an and a is pronounced of Italian a like of e in met the sound ; as in south the the peopleintroduce the tone In he (fine); slighttendency of England, and a e of e in like e g"et in met. in moon. oo leaves out In ar. tlie final oo London and before is introduced before in New the oo, (house),sounding the OOS " in " sound ; the un " fu bine com- i like i in it. vanishes or Ooold- as rapidly, the and 65. Vulgar pronunciationoften England : 6i, the pupil should like finishes as o. ; thus gate, by omitting the ee then slowly at first, before r i in it. and j is sounded in London, especially is as or, vanishingsound. elements as in an, a followingcombinations usual, but the properlysounded 00 lysis ana- ^ as the sounding the to in a The (rate). is sounded a the the sound let them (gate). in the O compounded of correctly maintains,u in run, eet eet The Pendennis." " it to be pupils mispronounce " Fa shows more vanishinge, Ga Captain Costiganin sound Yandenhojff BOOK. e stead in- like e in met. 66. Correct in by changing the e sound to a sound, as at. 67- 01 U is is compounded compounded 68. Attention of a in awe of i in it and should be i in it. in ooze. 00 given to in such i (No. 7, table of vowels) and the words as true sound of short charity,ability,"C. DRILL The general practicein combinations, like this and u, " "c. behold, short by the educated as similar like short if as are nounced pro- pronounced ut. words i, are fore, be- which in the pronounced speltbuhold, bucome, bi-hold, bi-COme, bi-tween, of instead classes kind above pronunciationof become, and be sounded should e These the it" is often even the vulgarity marks same of words the i in such is to sound country charuty,abiluty,and The 25 BOOK. the i even butween, being sounded i in "^ CHAPTER PRACTICE VOICE 69. tones best always are No. exercises in the used be ON in Table vowels the AR V. VOWELS. 1, that 61, should par. follow. Pure by practice acquired in cession suc- Speech these on elements, the I. Assume sound breath the Expel in half Ho proper II. Inhale as with position. Inhale sudden and whisper Let usual. and half the through voice. mouth Repeat be and depressed,the Then inhaled breath that follow should then the commence down dropped. followingvowels The them. soften jaw sound alarm. Arm, 2. A. Awe, all,call,pall,fall. calm, palm, Flow, go, and of each three opened base of sound the as times. wide the with as tongue each illustrative words vowel and word to greater force, and softly,advance again at the end, 1. A. 3. Ho. nostrils. great force, utteringthe possible,the palate raised,the larynx lower the row, lo,know. 26 DRILL 4. Oo. 5. Hoc, Oo BOOK. do, pool. coo, rue, Book, (short). look. 6. A. Way, 7. E. (long).Eel, seal,peel,reel. 8. E. (short).End, 9. I. (short).It, city,pity,ability. 10. O. (short).On, God, sob, sod. 11. U. Up, 12. U. Bull, pull,put, full. 13. I. U. Oi. 15. Ou. 16. XJ. main, thane. gay, Oil, foil,toil,coil. Our, dower, coward. power, Hew, due, infuse. ^arious Methods the in vowel powerful and a forth as the vowel Sound in voice 72. The care sound. sound effort is convert important all the converted breath ah quick and a a afar person breath all the wasted both in in twice whisper, and a off. . when loud hand breath when for health this into 'sound. The made the and part of the into sound converted pupil should vocal opposite and when the third 49 par. pistolexplosion. By placingthe he will feel the is word whisper. callingto explained in as cuttinglike and to if distinct each ExplosivePractice. 71. clear of Practice. practiceindicated,par. 69, II.,sound them II. Pour time " (long).Hind, wind, mine, sigh. I. After III. ell,elm. unto, under. urn, 70. and err, into close sound purity of exercise take full pure to the is ; mouth, impure. tone, should It that be After lY. hold each Sustain vowel sound endeavour breath one long as give as inhaled. the as to will breath out. V. Attack vowel each VI. Increase and YH. Sound each with OP ANALYSIS which VOWEL There the upon suddenly,and diminish the vowel (1) (3) force with with a quit as suddenly. of each nately. alter- sound rising inflection. circumflex inflections. (2) (See Sec. III.) Inflection, Article 73- sound fallinginflection. a is be allow TO in their demand is the analogy,and a is necessary careful to Vowels 74. same as Certain be derived vowels, from others graphic, delivery. Phonophonetic vocalization,deyjendson longer a to QUANTITY. OR vowels, dependent utterance. rapidlyuttered, appear and LENGTH certain analogy between occupied which vowels ACCORDING SOUNDS an time must which this with fortyor fiftyexercises as many the pupil should practice, little a 27 BOOK. DRILL time between distinction the best mTanged for long and short delivery. accordingto Length. Long. 1. A" rm. 2. A" 11. 3. A" le. 4. Ee" 5. U" 6. Oo" 1. rn. ze. 75. Caution. as charity,has " The been tendency noticed. to sound There i like is also a u in such similar words tendency 28 DRILL to sound and e when o, BOOK. short,like in as u, the amples following ex- : " I. Take spellingbook a vowels Select any in vowel let the pupils and the and sound the class it is sounded in number all words the 1 9 17 10 10 the in vowel the 10 The 9 solemn 14 Yea, temples, which like 4 Leave 10 9 2 not a 2 10 2 10 unsubstantial this 2 rack 7 6 dissolve, 6 pageant 16 behind. 7 79 2 inherit, shall it 7 15 1 And 16 2 great globe itself, 7757 7 3 all the 2 * 7 palaces, gorgeous 14 10 6 6 the 14 6 faded, every word, table, par. 10 3 10 cloud-capped towers, words to sound Example. The taining con- word. direct exactly as the " dictionary;select repeat rect cor- : vowel. the oppositeto then name practicefor acquiringa pronounced, sentence, word each or wrongly syllableby syllable; of is recommended of vowels utterance II. modes followingtwo The 76. and 61, 30 DRILL 8o. EULES the I. Have FOR lungs BOOK. PERFECT well ARTICULATION, and filled, attempt never speak to empty lungs. with send II. Never breath the out beforethe sound of the letter word. or III. and Always jaws IV. force with and sound be always equal breath is expelled,i. e., Avoid V. them of the mouth muscles and the tongue quickness. action of these the Let the move in force to the when organs to the uttering a force with intended energy making faces, pushing the out letter which for the lips,or the voice. twisting about. ungracefully VI. Open the fingerbetween VII. mouth the wide enough admit to at least one teeth. Always drop the lower jaw when sounding a letter word. 8i. ARRANGEMENT In Atonies or the Order Aspirants. OF CONSONANTS of their Formation. Sub-tonics or Sub-vocals. or 31 82. The and Atonic their with the initial is R 84. third tone, but not tone. distinct as as that of the of the tongue when in second E, final. end of the difference is delivered tongue. In will be uttering the r, and Initial R felt in the fii-st r, its its contraction uttering and traction con- slightprotrusion in the tremor r. should All the consonants 85. with distinctness the for similar voice, as 86. In P each to the letter,but with the across energy and cally, (2)verti- page; 79. page the the action positionof passes the mouth from is whisper to B. the practisingvertically recedes sounded examples, (1) practisingacross In be the rules in par. accordingto and a than rougher compound rear-rank, the the atonic,without name breathed, or name. slightvibration a whispered are have sub-tonics The vowels, hence of the v^ocal ; hence not 83. consonants towards the back action of the begins mouth with with the lips each successive mark. 87- Practise both ways. 88. Consonants the Organs It will be the of found speech organs arranged according to the action of Speech. useful as each to explainto consonant the is pupilsthe positionof uttered, and it will be 32 DRILL still if the better the teacher of the action ask LABIAL bab. P, pipe. B, OR M, tat. T", did. S, sis. shush. W, OR Y, F, fife. SOUNDS. Zh, Sh, azure. J, jug. SOUNDS. ye. NASAL 92. SOUNDS. ink. Ng, sing. Nk, num. explainthe Y, Yiv. Th, third. PALATE G, gog. Woe. TEETH Ch, etch. zuz. 91. K, kik. and sound to SOUNDS. LIP Tb, thun. Z, pupils first observe to mum. DENTAL 90. N, them the themselves. organs 89. T, will direct then consonant, and BOOK. ASPIRATE. 93. H, ha. LINGUAL 94. L, lull. R, OR SOUNDS. TONGUE roar. Explanation. 95. Labials. is always deliveringthe a sound 96. chieflyon the lipsare sounding B, to lips, arrest of e in always be Dentals. 97. Palatals. as " produce a This last sound heard when b ends The tongue presses tongue terance lips,and the utfirmlycompressed in for example, and there is of the breath the ; denly sud- lipsare slightwhisper finish,like err. The " to the the escape compression is only momentary, the should the is as In sounds. separatedso the action clearer compression of firm but The " presses is called a word, on on as a and robe. the teeth the vocule, or the palate. gums. 98. Nasals. the through the becomes tongue presses against fore-teeth,and is sounded tongue againstthe veil of thoroughlynasal. This the by drawing the palate,so is often H " It breathing effort. sound back issues and that ing elevat- the the defect will correct sound of pro. lenth. and leng^thas singin', as 99. Aspirates. a ; the open upper Ng nose. nouncing singing neglectedor misplaced.It be may checked is simply by practisingthe glotteexercise,the pupil repeatingthe word, when times,holdingin the breath misplaced h is sounded, many de coup the la h is omitted breath be it should where word the before shootingout then and momentarily the lipsare the above gums the The " 33 BOOK. DRILL then and the word quickly. heard, let the hreathe it out. depend on When pupil take Never a rasp the h out. 100. Linguals. is raised tongue, which roof of the These " sounds and the CHAPTER. lOI. with words The the table of vowel therefore pupilsshould illustrate ; and words words which sounded D the in the various and I. A form as the in various balm are in par. 61. on each vowel (long). attention sounds is placedbefore vowel suggestedin forces of the arranged to The the vowel that practice, ways fore-teeth. SOUNDS. VOWEL be fixed as the upper followingtable sounds of the YII. ON in the action tippressedgently againstthe mouth, touchingthe ridge of PRACTICE the voice par. : " should agree of the which the the group always 70, that is,by of be flection in- 34 DRILL BOOK. calm, father,path,psalm, calf,rather,salve,master, Palm, laugh,alms. II. A at as (short). gine, ask, grant, plan, glass,ashes,castle,crafty,baffle,ima- Am, abandon, fantastic. A III. all as or awe (long). Hall, fall,pall,call,broad, naught, caught, wall, enthrall, ball,cause, law, IV. E yawn. in Eve. as Heed, knee, flee,we, theme, seal, zeal, cheer, meed, ye, he, apotheoses. y. E in Friend, end. breakfast,against,forget, special, again,bestial, says, net. met, wet, wept, VI. E in err. Erst, earth, mercy, verse, terpearl,girl,servant, perfect,minate, stern, earl. I VII. as in. universal, vineyard, charity,docility, illicit, dynasty, privilege,dignity, implicit, eternity,infinite, Bid, synod, women, ability. this In the short practicebe watchful againstthe tendency i into u. (See par. 67.) O VIII. as to convert in on. Bond, yacht,gone, quantity,cost, cough, shone, moth, moss. IX. O as in or. Orb, form, born, forlorn,adorn, morn. was, DRILL X. U BOOK. " 35 in up. as Null, dull,done, blood,young, touch, fulsome,punish,covert, combat, cousin,southern, sovereign, covetous, enough. XL U in as bull. Full,put, push, would, wood, foot,soot,book,pulpit,cushion, wokey, butcher, ruthless. woman, XII. Oo in oOze. as Cool, fool,rule,moon. 102. VOWELS. COMPOUND I. A in as gay. -}-e. a = Bathe, grange, pay, veins, deign, angel, ancient, inveigh, fatalist, bravado, umbrageous. II. I in ice as 4" a = i" Time, high,sigh,viscount,guide,idyl,isle,mankind, condign, hypochondriacal,satiety, paradisaical, III. O old, O in as 00. " Cope, dome, gold, shew, sew, beau, yeoman, journ, prologue, so- goal. IV. Ou Power, V. Oi as our, as in in now a = + 00. endow, found, hound, shower, thousand, row. joy -|-!" awe = Broil,foil,toil, enjoy,alloy,boy, buoy, embroil,coil,astound. VI. U as dew in i = -|-oo. Tune, fume, view, beauty, feudal, duke, duty, dew, jew, pursuit,presume, 103- Vowel and cubic. exercises accordingto arranged in their the analogy, as order of their recommended tion, forma- by Dr, 36 DRILL :* HuUah BOOK. Palm, pole, pay, pool, peat, daunt, " cheer, master, fail,moon, zone, hear, gape, tale,rue, woe, low, gate, woo, theme. The " pupil practiceof the that of o, and and " e, The that and often with Begin to it because return useful. most with begin (asin balm). aa easiest,and should return it because experience has practiceof of o by that incomparably the most had aa of best be Dr. following is 104. The collection directed to sound for The sounds. then first, vowels to select other followed passages from the follow, Hullah. pupil the word. by last." exercise,presenting a test vowel of the will find it useful a it to be better attacked difficult, the it is the shewn had Oa a. to laneous miscel- should The be teacher readingbook practice: " Group, rude, audacity, prayer, pool,lake, people,philosophy,am, parent, before, field,pier, wonder, matrimony, fume, cise, idea, conconfound, crystalline, student, undo, feel,oil,crew, labor, diameter, lance, steady,been, busy,bought,asteroid, acrimony, facility, obey, monday, elegant. error, VIII. CHAPTER 105. 105. PRACTICE. CONSONANT each Pronounce (1.)Slowly taking (2.) Rapidly of the breath following words between each :" word. energetically. and (3.)In whispers. (4.)Never * *' The fail to Cultivation of complete the Speaking the sound Voice." By John of every Hullah. consonant. 38 "RILL io8. BOOK. Difficult Double and Triple Consonant Endings. alps, g"ilfed,ingulfed, tenths, strengths,lengths, Wasp, ringst,depths,droopst,laughst,asps, helpst,twelfths,attemptst, overwhelmst, sixths, tests,worlds, charmst, thinkst,precincts, robbst, diggst, writhst, hundredths, beggdst, catchdst,actst, meltst,touchdst,bursts,tasks, grasps, liftst, Difficult 109. teacher The be objectto kept view of letters combinations practicein difficult and correctness facility a hard of words presents the taken are from A. Melville "Elocutionary Manual," and, although meaningless, they BelFs form They A 112. big dog. Geese A cakes. signs. A big mad dog cattle low, the Put pot on " Kate hates cocks caw, sash shall sew the top of the A shop. It's a short shame, sham, Sam, and thrust it through stool. A swan swan. swam the The sheet. a set of soft Sam shot-silk ; these are shame it is to thatch. Thrice a over the sea. I snujQT shop snuff". the sham Swim, Do The in the on you kitchen. the shop A shot- sash. a Shilly-shally, same, Sam. Sam. so, shrew swan, bleak sloppery slippery sash. the Kate's poop. Such men. bad tighttapes. crow. shines sun A peacock. pepper Bob. crows rapidly, very pronunciation: Pick bit bad shocking sottish sillySally. a finish of the utmost then blossoms. A blighted tjie bright broom sleetyday. The kitten killed the chicken says she silk first slowly and paltryportly puppy. cackle, breeze amusing practice. be read should always with baked and excellent an 111. Bwam, secure selection The extent. such give followingcombinations The 110. She will exercises to any practiceto accomplish this important object. best but is to as A pronunciation. of all in Articulations. these increase may puzzles. threw swim. snuff" shop 'Tis They the Well snuff"? DRILL She sells million in an in an rural. Truly Literally rotatory luminary. A million instant. Don't minions. inn ruler. knitting needle. little A lightliterature. rural rubicund lucent literary. A A A shells. sea 89 BOOK. menial A millions. menial in go, Ann, likes Lucy million. We shall be uninanimated an Qdanner. in the cold 113. Laid the ground (not coal ground). Be eyes). sighs(notspirit's panting spirit valour and own act the torment of Goodness moved of in the heart centres Chaste (not cry). me ice sects Difficult (From (not there (not at were a hearts our breast Oh dling). never-med- a nice end an (not tars). stars see in thine same (notgoodness enters). clean nobody (not pay). Make beard descending swept his aged 114. drop I (not thy knoion). ever-meddling memory an all difference that in desire art night I lay an All Would thou as the Half She drop). (notsex). His crime could pain (not lean). His (not heer). Combinations. Plumptre's ^^ Elocution." ) of the preliminaries is unparalleled. ineligibility The individual Such acted He are irregularities contrary to generallyirremediable. the peremptory injunctionsthat were given. We alienate by requitinga many few with supernumerary gratuities. Rising simultaneously at leader's name, An they inalienable that his friends could swore the irreverential mention revenge. of election,which eligibility not be of their disputed,rendered altogethersupererogatory. the was of an thority au- of interposition SECTION III. CHAPTER I. Modulation. The 115. and of the MODUI.ATIONS and The and is,the facilityin executing the .on The notes that " But uttered be speech great so in will be that of downwards on rarely pitch refers the in music. a whole applied of pavssage It it is discrete to the is concrete " that when is voice the two voice " is,broken a lower into voice unless the passion. rise fall and variation changes is may no to are be tered ut- requisite it notes. is,continuous up the nor the of is beyond leap upwards variation three pupil. or the will change from that will quires re- frequent thoughts, inflection,there and strong speech or called few, so is, of acquiring practise the to sometimes series than what to the In notes. for As of not " useful simple, are that more musical most a sound. are and made, the in teacher influence music or more over is In level, and same of is low; or rarely passes variations variations words, extends variation the seven over the under octave an Many gradual. its pitch voice speaking of and ear either gradations sound every the practice knowledge music. in as incessantly as of high it is gamut, This speech the then even the is steps of of the in the it variations scale. is, seven onwards moves all cultivating all the extent or compass seven for musical little very as of notes musical varies embrace seven exercise necessary pupils voice the variations these as of pitch scale, that the consist INFLECTION. 116. or voice speaking pitch. This planation ex- When interruption tween be- higher sound, a ; while parts. in sic mu- 1 17. As inflection, however, is derived from pitch the If the teacher if he and if he and then can almost variations of pitch. important very element in the diagram and If ear are " has explanation of its j plished accom- the forms ear a that he dull so to access seven pupilsin his for the " note a ; he has train to practice he rise has counted he manner If his voice and aid him. will instrument same is necessary mencing voice,com- of correctness simple musical these preparatory exercises,a very master cannot in the his sary. neces- conveniently sound, can until another, descend all that degree pitchis with notes he as any and higher, and another, these note with then can low a of knowledge some " start can such with notes is, that " gradationsof the from 41 BOOK. DRILL the pirino, a parts will lowing fol- the serve : purpose " The 118. 2 Board Key 10 3 of 11 12 Piano. a 13 14 15 16 18 17 19 21 20 II Hill III II III 3 4 5 6 The white keys keys behind them. piano by having an open black white high or as when too he his best with No. behind low can many this note he and 1 them without black a if the two judge, he voice,he 2 may key black a keys piano. passes to 3 and 4 a Notes Nos. semitone known the on three will he that descend has struck the proper 7 the black more first of the If gamut. must with follow the stiikes 6 6 keys, followed by ; then to times,listening carefully of the 3 be black two student of the for his No. the the series of commences 2 5 set off in series of sevens, are keys. Now, keys in front Avhich far space 4 3 get sound ascend or 1 and connects sound be too until,as Let him note. make a three do his voice accord 2 are them. full tones ; All the 43 i"niLh black keys are black no white that semitones ; but All the student key. key immediately below key practiseseven to 119. The modulations of black board and in music SCALE then the 3 is up semitone a has to do pair of and The lead with his to sound the is to black it needs the strike keys, and from down.* is recommended Pitch. however, endeavour as No. as notes followingscale in the than BOOK. for teacher a drilling voice. own tone in as it write may He class on a should speaking rather : " FOR PEACTICE IN PITCH TONE. AND Directions. counts and each slowly,dwelling on I. Ascend Take counts. two a note while quiet breath v. you here beat four the rest is marked. II. Descend in the III. up Repeat TV. voice breath Observe in this down and the voice swell towards manner. same centre four from of the previousrules practice.Open the poured all out into pass These hints are pure to six sound, for mouth the but avoid well, and for the teacher. the all force- management voice. intended Let times. of the let all the DRILL Gamut Reading modulations the or the monotony the pitchat expressivereading. the pupils The next "ah" sound simple vowel objectof these two exercises is to overcome school reading and to acquire skill in varying of will and The according to Poetry sentences. for any the will prepare The to sentences. 121. to necessary changes the practicefrom exercise and last exercise the practiceof The 120. 43 BOOK. scale of kind of the nature than is better for this prose sentiment practice. method, and will serve illustrates the p. 44 on the composition. EXPLANATION. 1. Let lowest the line lowest that on 2. Strike the key-note Then sounded. be read the pitch. key-note and next the read next line that on level. 3. Advance then 4. in this 6. Give at the to sound the again Commence 5. Descend in the every fourth,then same variation the the gamut j the the voice (falsetto). key-note of each step alternate to be read. manner. of pitch " that so on is^give the lowest, then to " in acquirefacility a the compass practisewithin pupil should into read step, and will. It is quiteenough to and pitches, lowest seventh, and changing the pitch at scream higheststep of descend. steps,taking care the to the manner never ascend disagreeableand so of the high unnatural as tone seven to vert con- like ^ u DRILL Gamut for Varying the BOOK. Pitch Voice. of the Speaking 46 DRILL BOOK. IN PRACTICE INFLECTIONS. :\=t zitz^ 3^ ah ah ah ah ah 126. In this practicethere no from jumping by and breaks patiently should until a 127. with pure stringof a with moved inflection call a can use " violin,and continued the slide." " This a soft and of cases teacher and steadily renew the pupil effort accomplished. the violin he may the bow When the finger at pressure distance it, is heard. termed be correctness. to any and can throughout the effort will be marked all these recommence If the teacher great In false note, or voices, especiallythose exercise,and false notes. break no but Untrained tone. fail in this often be must another, to one gentleflowing of adults,will wmm upward, movement (Dr. Rush,) the on a guide his pupils is drawn across time same mewing sound, of pitch on gradually its lower stringfrom the if I may the violin tachment atso is DRILL III. CHAPTER AND QUALITY 128. voice A It is free from half and other. is and flowing as 129. voice A regular and minutes of this kind is rare, training systematic, expression. of Let the nature because Par. counsel it is and it still attention is the months paid to its practiceis excellence and daily. produce Ten the best vowels, especially aA, sults. reon 119. following conditions 130. The ; it grandeur. no the tion. exhaus- pathos and practice, if possible, be of a few day would in the course This practiceconsists in sounding nor and youth and acquire great may with sentiment in a the scale. the nose, great vehemence or and power ness loud- the in prayer organ, bell. a well-opened mouth, of of sweetness commences all voices the as harsh or gasping were in wrath by great if the but ; an marked purity,but exhibits of poetry ; and sublime eloquence and tones the full hand, one through to musical proceedingfrom speaker full-toned tender, and the the if as if the toned and clear, pure, is heard as and modulated FORCE. gruffness on and It is soft and solemn power breath round issues ever utters. culture and It is not with mingled It good quality huskiness the on of 47 BOOK. should also be served carefullyob- : " I. Inhale the nostrils. through II. Acquire the habit of keeping sleeping,walking, or silent. III. Never filled,and before speak keep up the the the lungs mouth have closed been when moderately supply by constantly and frequently breathing. IV. V. VJ. Raise Stand the soft widen the back of the mouth. erect,with head elevated and shoulders thrown When keep the palateand head drivingout a and shoulders sound, especiallywith still,almost but rigid, back: gi-eatforce, not and stiff, 48 DRILL expellingthe let the effort of the first, jerk at must the out most as to {a)and open in the table I. Send out be II. been if object,as vowel the to (ah), a acquired, the pupil with and narrowest the closest (e), voice sound, directingthe of shouting " time ! the sound on hoy. this effort at least six times. THE is the This the vowels, always commencing powerful stream considerable Repeat 132. at which ungracefulacts chieflywith Shi'pahoy dwelling a pupils will 46. page a of checked. advancing on distinct some other muscles the by Untrained commit entirelybe the other up made be of practice has facility take should and practiceshould when sound diaphragm. word and once 131. The and the and abdomen BOOK. result sustained,with OROTUND VOICE. grandest quality of of cultivation ; fatigueand with conceive what less but the when acquired better It is artificial"th voice. speaking it than effect, be can other any longer quality of voice. Let the 133- heartilyand aloud, and a gape, the if jaws, we of which and listen we the gape orotund be the commences orotund the is done i3 mouth is held full vocal sound. practice of centre The loudly. the dislocate pupil opened shall hear, as will this Now, we in help and forciblycontinued are wide, so position ; were if that voice, for generalyawn, it yawil we very in that moment a when the to us freed from engaged in almost as then we gape the for mouth in the heard the to of middle fix the sound vocal gapC or aspiration practising the voice. 134 Children when the of the or courage its in frequently, voice orotund is forced forth quality ; delight or hatred, purest quality and the loud and and often in a when expressionof clear adults yet control becomes loud their orotund. natural joy or sion, pas- singing tone, give are deeply moved feelings,the amples ex- by voice attains the Let L for Practice 125. Voice. the Orotund be well mouth, of the back pharynx, or 49 BOOK. DRILL The tongue depressed. The uvula The top of the windpipe (larynx)depressed. The breath raised. voice or greater boldness and practiseup III. vowels When has facility in the order the common on first, sonorous the Finally,read Y, ; (2) by words after each this High I on Out Ishone Or I where Showers word ; and voice,try tone game the to ; each the read ah, take ; as, vowels, take and of the practisewith tinuously. con- words, them. (1)by monosyllables taking separate word whole any passage breath can frequently be delivered naturally in the : " I a | of I throne | the | wealth I foj\b1\ state | ol | Or|mus | and | the | gor|geous| East | on | which | with other | far | of | Ind, | rich]est | hand | pearl |and | her |kings | bar|bar|ic, | sat. Sa|tan | ex|al|ted Any the other then sepai-ately, followingpassages when 42, and ah. times 101-2, and pausing p. ee, several p. gamut, paragi-aph119 o, a, 00, vowels usage. to the full sound in good practiceon After most in in stream, with vertical a acquired with been indicated sounding these IV. the with down ah, fii-st than firmness and in directed be turn Observing these regulations, II. expanded. similar passage will serve the purpose. | gold, 60 DRILL 136. The " a the sentence the of common that 137. These and syllables ; but when Br. speech." " are pitch of every Force voice. a stress or alter to practice, of syllables, orotund as easy Rush. the voice. They may be IV. Stress. or the voice the means the low. necessarily means of Height Loudness number the CHAPTER 138. Continued not Force orotund attempting uninterruptedexpirationof exercises on practised in the give to will return. increase gradual a will render as able often tone colloquial with however, be pupils will vowels qualityto BOOK. strength elevation means exerted power loudness or of make to of pitch. ourselves heard. 139and proper marked does not, however, Force as energy by calmness, the nature demanding comparative expressions will give just interpretation of the be must and also understand only harshness create directed a An deUvery of injure the a is hand, however, organs proper powerful of and hear to disciplineand the generalhealth. exercise conduces often ruin powerful but when grandest The student yet is free voices the which power is delightful. than them is passage the of force often more culture reading a vulgar shouting mere always impressive and unscientific the full of energy, and often applied to the streSS. between passage expressions of force make however, wearying impression ; public speakers, and vocal forms necessary A have powerful emotion, exercise We effect is and When, a proper coarseness. improper necessary such demands. effect to great distinction which painful and by art, its 140. improve or the various embodies by the force of voice that from given to it the sentiment of sentiment, may thought. oratorical,and or eflfectcan and energy, these dramatic of the gentleness or great shouting,but mean any for life. marks other On develope their the cause the power to other and pupils should the 142. change 143. There leading three are 1. Radical Stress. 2. Median Stress. 3. Vanishing a lazy drawl. for a is with then this form the should due un- rest, It cheerful aU of stress, viz. the voice (radix) of quick, and the opposite of barred " and suddenly gives and of the force accumulated" with tinct, clear,dis- a liveliness to the delivery, and joyousexpressions, to words of voice could of command be or it pictured, when alarm. would " " 146. ". ! Arm " ! Arm ! Practice. 1. Sound ah quick and 2. Sound ah quick but " " ah " ah loud not " " : root Arm 3. Sound and or out the fullest power, : happens, they beginning and sent 145. Suppose this effort have is irritated forms because is held cutting force. adapted to exercised at breath and to violence STRESS. sudden is The moment, and and greatest It sound. the onea Stress. is used term and commence e RADICAL 144. I. This milder and ease exercise. other some then may throat the until all tendencies this When committed. been has to is loudest the with pupils cough, If the checked. violence or end and important that the energy, acquired. They practisingthe energeticform, When be should been have powerful forms most moderate with commence of execution correctness with always it is in Force exercises practisingthe 141- In 61 BOOK. DRILL ah six times. so loud six times. " " ah rapidly,as in a ringinglaugh. 52 DRILL 4. Sound manner all the Speak radical vowels the Passionate the words Radical 61, in par. the same with but energy, giving the in italics. : " " " ! comrades, up Up Ne'er be it said Unimpassioned but " ! in our I falls. cheerful : see hath been with you. " fancy's midwife, " and " shape " " Mab Queen " is the Rokeby's halls, courage " Oh, then In 22, p. following passage only to stress She on (1) (2) (3). as 5. BOOK. comes " bigger no she than " agate stone an " On of fore-finger the alderman, an " " " by Drawn of little atomies team a " men's Athwart Alarm " noseS as they lie asleep. : " " While Or throng the citizens with The Hatred and lips " " " " * white whispering with foe, they they come, contempt " dumb, terror Fullest ' come ! power of " radical: the " " " You common cry of curs breath ! whose I hate." " As reek o' the common fens, " whose loves I prize " As the dead carcases unburied of " That The do radical corrupt stress my air, " " is synonymous men, " " yOU.** I banish with " attack " in music. 54 DRILL 153. This force has been '" bark of a compared to hiccough, and a to the tone dog threateningto bite,"or " child BOOK, of a to the peevish " saying,I wont, I shant. It may be picturedthus : " " I wont. 154- Practise passages, with the vowels usual. as giving the vanishing force " Thou the to marked " slave ! thou the Read words " thou wretch, coward, " Thou little valiant,great in Thou ever strong the upon villany! stronger side, " lL\io\kfortune^ 8 /" champion " And I tell thee Douglas, more, in Even Here in thy pitch of thy hold, thy here pride, vassals near, " I tell thee And, To / thou'rt " said'st I if thou any Lowland lord or in defied. am Scotland highland,far not peer here or " near, " Lord Angus, thou DERIVATIVE 155. The derivative 1. Thorough 2. Compound 3. Intermittent hast lied. FORMS forms STRESS. OF of stress are termed stress. stress. stress, or tremor. following " : " DRILL 156. Thorough three modes Stress. begins, continues,and natural This " of tone combination of vanishing stress. with ends the is and radical,median, : 55 BOOK. the same the The voice It is the energy. call attention:* shouting to Ship ahoy! Fire! Fire! " Princes, potentates Warriors, the Awake " Open gates ^11 *^" stress, but the black an should is and " doth Engla^id's, give the stand ; the mouth strengthto to the " the thorough words be force Performed expanded and opened; utmost the in italics when, Is spied by night in this is to The well filled with always be must to calculated give effect to exercise give great voice. the to to pupils STRESS. of the like timorous As that regulations,the these volume word, syllable,and With is demanded agreeable,and lungs and and while violence of voice under 159. This is the union " understand vigorous shouting exercise. COMPOUND * ! demand given should chest must well practice. same approach ; victor way passages is teacher The invigoratingand the bells ! your type. avoided, the the and of these energetic and air ; the fallen !** ever Angiers, ring greatest force 158. Note. be be for King words ! lost! now or of men your 157and ! King John, your of heaven yours, ! Arise Rejoice,ye ! flowers Once Fire! radical letter. even accent and populous and and dire vanishing stress It is as yell, negligence,the /re cities." " Othello. if we on started 66 DRILL the sound continuing the the sudden sound force of the radical stress,then relaxed increased and resumed of the with of ah BOOK, slightlyand momentarily, then with the energy force,and terminated the Pictured vanishing stress. thus : ' "" Ah. 160. The hatred, compound " Out him on !" quoth similar and mockery, contempt, sarcasm, in the utterance is demanded stress false oi feelings, Sextus, "" " not the to be married ?" drown villain Will "" Gone " It is not Be well ; thou so Thou be. effort of the This language,gurgling." " but the crying and are broken intense is broken force into utterance of age, the Apply Whose Whose sorrows of trembling days are a ! peace a the of 'tis called, in sorrow, to the OF poor old man^ borne to the voice, the and and feeble sometimes italic words. AGE. TREMOR have of force expresses him shortest to span will hless your door, your ; store is common Laughing points. It "It tremble. It is stress, or great so. TREMOR. throat the tremor Heaven again. it to tremor. limbs swear say causes tittles,or divindled and Oh, give relief OR this of THE Pity STRESS, Rush. examples excitement. but in Dr. tale thy dost voice particular vibration that to mis-spoke,mis-heard. hast INTERMITTENT 161. Gone ; tell o'er advised It cannot ! ! of DRILL EXCITEMENT. AND AGE 57 BOO5. (Barbara Freitchie.) (Firm) {Trejnor) as Dame Barbara lean'd far out And shook it forth spare Youth. O ! I have With had Da^Kd Had Have The that followed by sunk any the the Practise in a headj said. Passion. god sea the ! creatures cry did Poor good ship so in her, knock I would the earth, or have within vessel^ souls,they perisKd. of power, within brave a noble soTne /raughting souls the teacher the sill, royal will. a suffer! saw heart review 162. Let window with pieces. 0, very my I been I doubt no It should staff; broken she country'sflag"," your all to Against with staff, suffered those Who the the on Tremor, " broken micst, this old grey if you Shoot, "' the snatched She But Miranda. it fell from Quick e'er swallow^dyand her. " The Tejnpest. practice. the name stress, then give the example, pupils. similar way on the table of words, par. 69. SECTION IV. I. CHAPTER 163. The the cultivated the previous voice drill of correctness powers, realize his to appropriate much at and the first be true passage and of nature guided by is best the ; guide there and the of /orm or RHETORICAL There are Pause + and comma, the interrogation to and explain the semicolon, of these to to give the imagination read to way quick to any appreciate the Hence as pupil the must analysis delivery. PAUSES. kinds Pause Grammatical The the two then and II. CHAPTER 164. thought. thought, passage. their proper to and acquired understand one to tions. modula- these the are a supposed quickness use and upon only minds few is of the read, is emotion an literal is to he necessary to applying feeling.After the is to depends as naturally, the sentences he and the when student of and interpreter of the however, understanding conceive of the This, tones. correctly passage and the as the voice show method passed, distinguish true a the thought has his will voice of pupil can guidance mind own he follows the for the rule best The make to as so the modulating of that explain delivery correct which by ear READING. is to which power section The the to through the acquired have section of this object EXPRESSIVE OF PRINCIPLES of in pauses Rhetorical and but in stops, by the colon, admiration, the " matical Gram- Pause. is indicated the reading the no the full stops common stop, the dash. reading It is not exercise notes " of sary neces- ought DRILL fcheyto be four, as a of the of length true a composition; 165. of the and is formed sentence given. construction principal members two These members and terminate, there by subdivisions these of attributes extended and be can Principle. the Predicate. and Subject nature importance of analysis. General The the on the depends upon use of the pause. fixed rules no little very always depend therefore the of comparative duration Pause ; hence sentence counting one, two, three, stopping,is must pause Rhetorical The for of the measure a old rule of of the time measure exceptingas The The neglected. 69 BOOK. again " may adjuncts,and be must a The : be larged en- where rhetorical pause. 166. the Hence following RULES Mark \\short Mark ||||long pause. I. Pause RHETORICAL the logicalsubject after the the time, place,manner, and subjecthave If the III. in nouns objectof cause, sentence a the if the verbs verb if the attributes. and verb be the be intransitive extensions transitive. attributes,participial, prepositional, beforeand etc., pause apposition, When IV. X if it have logicalpredicate between ; pause PAUSE: pause. after II. Pause of FOR is after them. inverted,pause after the inverted member. V. and relative afterparentheticclauses, before wherever It beforeprepositionsand Pause will there be previousrules. is seen an the pronouns, infinitive before mood, and ellipsis. that Rule V. is only a derivative of the 60 BOOK. DRILL EXAMPLES. 167. A suffer of little in as our suffer the to relieve And even his by the at variety by sublime his large]] the truction des- magnitude singleleaf. a wretched||was failings] |leaned and and fall of universe The of Chalmers* " pride, to Virtue's side. Goldmiith. " II. The A dungeon glowed]J moment]] Again]] a in as sunshine, then flood of white dark was flame]]fills the ; cell. lY. Within Sate Low splendour the verdure Thus Rule its planet,as forestywould Eule happily. hearts|lbeat thousand would a T. Rule the niche of that windowed fated Brunswick's head]] that the lies is Silent]] a was whose tongue]]to high hall |( chieftain. crowned once with surrendered we accents]] honour. up the souL Chained]]in the he flace]] market Then with shook]]the hills]] Then rushed And Far 168. The to j]the steed]] louder]]than the flashed]] the red followingpassage of all the rules bolts stood. thunder battle of riven, driven, heaven]] artillery. is miscellaneous, but contains amples ex- : " that quickenof a revolutionJI in the midst ed Flung]]into life]] who of a people]] acknowledged no superior,he energy every his course]] a stranger]] commenced by charity by birth,a scholar]] " 62 DRILL flection. The sentence the presence by and " earls" takes completesthe that follows is also the of the sense BOOK. well as " earls" refers to what two rising inflection as independent. the ; while " as sentence, it takes awed Over- follows, anguish" the falling inflection. Further Near yonder Examples. copse, where the once garden smiled, (dependentsent.) And stillwhere many a garden flower grows wild,{depend,sent.) There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, (dep. sent.) The mansion villagepreacher'smodest r6se. {prin.indep.sent.) Goldsmith, In that great cloister's stillness and seclusion,(dep.phrase ) . By guardian angelsled,(dep.phrase.) temptation,safe Safe from from sin's pollution, (dep.phrase.") She lives whom (prin.sent.) call we dead, (comr pletedsent.^ though, at times,impetuous And with emotion,{dep.phrase.) And The (dep.phrase.) anguishlong suppressed, swellingheart heaves, moaning ocean, That We cannot (dep.adv. sent.) be at r6st, (dep.adj.sent.) will be patient,and assuage to (prin.sent.,but referential We may not like the the next the fueling sentence.) hid complete.) wholly stay : (dependeiit, DRILL Thus it is the will be 172. Rules for the I. enunciated I. The the by rising above tensions and modifications predicate,take end exhortations, *' Ye : the sentence derived ciple prin- from all to which of dependent principal sentences they refer,and predicatewhen the sentences all ex they precede risinginflection. a appeal, i. of words Example all piincipalsentence, by qualifyingclauses II. All inflection sentence, followed the analysis of : the subject of followed the inflection. to its proper key that seen 63 BOOK. with nominatives e. address,and of risinginflection. a " peaks (appeal),I'm and crags with again" once you (complete). " Hide face from thy sins, and my all my blot out iniquities'* (exhortation). " vales green III. All answered " voioe Awake, and " thou G6d, fainteth TV. " kn6wn, not the " the is weary a words fadlt. not of or that can the heard, that the ends of appositiontake in Hence risinginflection Negative sentences denied. verbs, be the lasting ever- earth, ]" principalword. earth,have It is not my Creator ; risinginflection. hast thou L(5rd,the that a heart, awdke my hymn." with no," take " or yes Observe " as Creator all join my icy clifis, not, neither Note. s6ng. Awake, sweet questions beginning by Hast of have a in the the same above. Lord flectio inand like God. risinginflection in the part 64 DRILL It is not a few portions of tvme, to small not generations, hQve limited; they BOOK. to few a embrace to ages, that few a not years, to speculationsare our eternity. subordinate 173. In all the above not rules,the student will see incompleteness. Thus appeal partakes an negative statement affirmative " is It is not second " for the ~\. All dependent they end a II. All incomplete it is take the opposite a Inflection. independent sentences, as when fallinginflection. threats,and commands, until a somebody else's." Falling well as passage, question,and a also its derivatives. principlehas Rules of nature given. fault,"means my 174. The the be to seems statement of denunciations take a falling inflection. "HMt!" On " "March ! Rise,rise ye ! h6me II5me You noble ! you I bid twice'? "Must " on on!" wild ! you blocks,you English." Hence, varlets,^2/.'^" tempests, and idle dolts ! st6nes,you c6ver Get his " flight. h6me, you than worse things. senseless "ft"^ " W6e unto for darkness sw^et, and even Though that light,and sw^et III. All " them light for good, and good evil darkness ; that put put bitter ; that for for bitter." sentences if call evil expressive of negative in form, I should die with take undoubted the th^e,yet I truth, or viction, con- fallinginflection. will not deny th6e." 65 BOOK. DRILL ^ God is not mkn, that he should lie ; neither the a that he should In rV. a a of man, son repent. series of each independentsentences, takes sentence fallinginflection exceptingthe penultimateone. Charity suffereth long " charityvaunteth itself behave revoked V. unseemly ; seeketh (penult.) ; thinketh is " itself ; is not not Antithetical the easilypuffedhp her not " CIRCUMFLEX rich ; Hence wave. with they end rise a 176. Circumflex to express, a sufficient or wonder, pression ex- ; and with Pope they beg,I give ; they a combination the in an voice of the down moves unbroken continuous circumflex,risingor fallingas do not much as therefore depend the on the on the form emotion analysisof of the they the are sentence tended inis guide, double irony, or so and each fall. inflections emotions 177. The and down termed for their use, sentence not up they are easily INFLECTIONS. Inflections are 175. Circumflex two leading inflections. Sometimes sometimes not precedingprinciples. frequentast6nishment is read with up, and ; is not own n6t ; ; doth but oppositeinflections, perpetualdelight." "They p6or,I lack,I tend ; they pine,I live. and charity envieth ; ^vil." no take forms subjectto Dryden is kind and expressedby the circumflex inflection are meaning, doubt, mockery, rebuke, reproachy "c. Rising Circumflex. 178. Ths " It is F voice slides vastlyeasy dovm, then for you, up, Mistress mi the same Vial, who word. have always, 66 DRILL BOOK. * everybody knows, as for you, easy " How " Well^he me, people of it is " vastly laziness." V* (Doubt.) this tone impliesthat fallinginflection decided " is better." that other accuse patient,Doctor is your Observe and I say, to above yourselfup set better" " over he is still in would danger ; certainty convey satisfaction. said Hume but only preacher, voice slides up, dared None " But one Her mother a is evil churn, False ! Shall Louis have be, " ; cow. both to join'd. and fdce, : charm Gone Blanche, thou aside dairy pan or of blood to false blood It cannot a : *o his eyed she, forsooth,must to be married down him spoke Combination Gone then only killed Or witched " and sly maiden little wretch 180. common Fall. and withstand The But a Whitefield. Rise 179. The Whitefield to hear distance no go to hear miles twenty go is,he would That preach." he would ; a Gone Blanche dost but say man." Forms. swear a peace ! to be friends these 'tis so." a ! provinces1 DRILL " Cry al6ud,for journey,or No he is is The possible. very in there is level tone, slide up its music Read tone as entire the little inflection as apply practicethe this in inflections is are danger a in and level is the of law like the with a tollingof a slight very speech,and distinguishes that of song. from solemn similar followingand passages on as level possible: " Holy, holy. Lord The-cloud The "^ as pitch is changed. involuntarilyend will This you. ing passing into chanting. In chantof monotone ; it is uniformly one is solemn word down. the absence monotone each or of exceptingwhere 182. The bell,but inflection of ujonotone an will die with preceding examples ; but the the tone is lengthened. There slightand a be awaked." must wisdom level tone, with a laws the exercisingthe sleepeth,and on Monotone. The Monotone he is talking, or he is Either people,and the are ye i8i. as he peradventure doubt same god. a 67 BOOK. God of Sabaoth. capped towers, solemn all which And, like the unsubstantial not gorgeous palaces, temples,the great globe itself. Yea, Leave the a rack it inherit shall behind. dissolve, pageant faded, a 68 DRILL BOOK. Mechanical 183. A good reader at will should practicewill able to be give any necessary inflection hesitation,and the followingmechanical without and Practice. useful to train be the acquirethis to ear power. 1 (The habit of children when they stop for any habit, shown in when without purpose, reading hymns end inflection at the reading is always of a regard the or ** the to the " drop the give to would sense voice ; and sense Scriptures,is where verse, to other an- ing ris- a require a fallinginflection.) 184. Practise 'iTeteach pupil in I. stop, but then and if the used Book, " but " as the " ; but for the next going to to take his habit knowing they are " he so be in the Fifth bathed were "in" with in " " flection risingin- a tears." " Immediately the tears" ; line,beginningwith say " " t^ars ; the here strong though the " overawed is incomplete sense line,the "Earls,"like that fallinginflection. a and second stop at the end to reads " ends only, " 6arls," two part. is Thus sentence, it takes continues earls " read read. conversation the next of the as but inflection, but the ends presence pupil lesson a inflection that would be to line of one same not stop ; up reader second The were takes tears the during this must if he reader class read a let the first the reader second " line had attendants as : with end next 193, p. Her Here by follows as reader in,"takes the majority of of each line,will " a stops rising readers, drop the voice." II. Let the class read in the first line second line,let read every word a simultaneously,and rising inflection. the teacher with a call out Before " give to they fall;"then fallinginflection. every commence word the let the class 70 DRILL Example. 190. Low. First Fear, his hand Amid And Middle. the back Next High. In With High. With Low. sound woeful sullen sad the THE the lyre. its strings. Despair, wan mingled air, by fits, of wild. Modulation. analysisof the sentence,') simple are sentence. expressed,then the contrast or the distinction a higher when trast con- qualifyingwords take a higher pitch. Examples of the Subject. IQ2. " Here stings; subject and predicate are delivered in and modifying phrases. But qualifying distinction mark fire, on sounds, his griefbeguiled, stai-ts 'twas {Accordingto that had made. his secret measure, Principles and eyes ; why, swept with hurried hands by pitch than himself solemn, strange,and Higher. try, not rude clash he struck one 'Twas 191. The knew own'd lightnings Low A he recoiled, Anger rushed,his And Very its skill to chords,bewildered,laid at the Even Very BOOK. " Becket's death death" leadingword. is the caused cause great consternation." of the consequence, and is the " cheerfuldisposition lightenslabour." A there is contrast Here 71 BOOK. DRILL not ; but disposition, any a cheerful one. The " Not " for attributes. serve is trusted of mrtue man and crown a by even his enemies." of virtue. one (contrast) but man, any both ornament to and young old, is despised." to be it only explains; explanatoryphrase does not distinguish, is the leading word. wisdom The hence and A Wisdom, never " rules same Bom to the earlyunited in herself and happy the fate that of the "There so was her her monarchy choice,the future to overtake soon in the am^iable world, pHncess, pated prospects, little antici- her." adjectives distinguish, they take cedence pre- noun. twenty were objectof joyfulin numeral 193. As illustrious inherit the most to killed." men " There were nine hundred wounded." men Note. than " Vulgar expressionalways gives emphasis the number in such of hundreds The verb 194. The than " the The has modifying corn is lightand and by the must by " rather above. Predicate. the husbandman, the heat of the sun, nourished ground by the by the miller, people." however, prominence have the " higher pitch and stronger emphasis a sown the 195. When, as "hundred words. rains and eaten cases to the verb is transitive,the object : Becket's death caused great consternati"nj* 72 DRILL 196. So also when takes predicate the copula is used,its modifyingword higher pitch. the Man " 197. When has She made " We took him " The word for Whenever than the be because ambition." 214). speaker which ? " Thus if the But Antony then He fought most He died from given in take bravely of pitchor a " The hath proud enemy " tone The " dominant it harder saint."" Hooker. in italics to 111 readingthe above are be, of analysis,it would phasis, preference. {See Em- Brutus " : " accused Caesar of guiltyof ambition, Caesar was "Brutus precedence other or accused words Gcesar bition." am- intended are of the other of for words. all. given in the SENTENCE. principalsentence takes If it be sentences. tone, the subordinate cedence pre- delivered should be lower. that waiteth found 199" "Who COMPLETE Principaland *' read we any hunger, Rule. about law justifythe would of all subordinate in the middle the modifying phrases THE 198. General would reading the give a preference to under the rule distinction, they or would comes by ashes" to question were, the Whenever contrast the house arbitraryemphasis ]f)ar. pitch. philosopher" a the one the indirect objects, indirect her heir." him fire reduced " direct and are or is mortaV^ of the direct in precedence Note. or there " BOOK. same Sentences. Adjective for all occasions overthrow and the an to work humble sinner our ruin than followingexamples, the passages pitch,and higher than the subordinate a DRILL pitch,that is, half sound can ; when remember the the it when this The as continue pitch in which As Struxh that me, still where a many few a bed, where And as high shrubs the This last example his fools,who turns unafiected the venerable looks adorned laid, dismayed, grace, place." shows that in the take a simple higher pitch. lipsprevailedwith came rose" partinglife was and to wild ; placedisclose, mansion modest fcMing garden smiled, flower grows champion stood." from is read main." garden reverend church, with meek in double remained scoff, to In sentences. him, overboard the The Truth spoken. hatches, save once torn preacher's village leading members " where guilt,and pain by 201. the thought to sorrow, His the stumhledj and And At assume Sentences; tumbling billows of the yonder copse, the is " Methought Subordinate that Gloster Beside delivered, and was a must 203. giddy footingof the There, where The " reader make must principaland subordinate Methought Nea/r the highest note all that foUows and middle passed along we Into the And the in the pitch ; but the reader enemy" found" Par. and Principal Upon " the given is read, the voice that foUows principalsentence. " '* hath below sentence 200. *' ** and at that end '* the voice indicates noun the the lowest and is enemy adjective clause the predicate manner " the between way and slightdescent " above, in the Thus sentence. 73 BOOK. Sentence sway, pray." 74 DBILL agreeablewith It is 202. all similes clauses and BOOK. the rule delivered are clause,however, be parenthetical read all lower a parenthetical pitch. important it very If the should be slower. Parenthetic 203. P., Middle M. in that Pitch; H. Clause. P., Higher Pitch; L. P., Lower Pitch. P. M. L. P. And H. P. He with He sentences rule " We That smoothed the N. S. S. we far we his on proved againstan That direct He seek the general take the the prominencs same cases. in the laws or to the sentences hollowed his narrow bed, lonely pillow, the stranger would away ^ happy. place predicate,and, agreeably demand If it be by noun another down foe amd he must exception an itself in such It is enacted S. Adv. object of thought(adv.s) as And P. present noun And N. S. cries aloud RULE. (par. 191),they the (pitch)as P. S. in delights for this is that reason subjector the " " EXCEPTIONAL The rule. works us that 204- of the all her "which Noun above delightin virtue, must And P. Power a that there is all nature Through M. If there's " the billow ." of Venice, alien indirect attempts life ofam/ycitizen, tread o^er his head. 75 BOOK. PRILL The party Shall seize Adv. I heard And S. Stood I S. N. had " voice, a in the a of Venice, asleep, !" N. more no S. godlessdeep, the breast would in man and up Merchant fallen Believe freezingreason's like contrive ever-breathingshore an within warmth The Prin. Faith tumbled That A " heard And Prin. S. one-haZfhis goods. e'er,when If S. he doth which 'gainstthe Adj. S. melt colder part, wrath, the heart answered, felt. HAVE Tennyson, of Pitch is of analysisto the variations application and only useful in determiningthe comin character parative mechanical of sentences. value Expressivedelivery,however, in 205. The highestaspect,must tion and thought ; and its assist the judgment founded the upon High emotions, extremes m. sublime for of Pitch passages is the most Low Pitch is the and grand passages. is for regarded as thought- passages. proper triumph pain,grief,and emo^ for argument, proper what is the most of of the nature student: composition,and for philosophical from emotional ive as distinguished II. The the following general principleswill of the advanced Pitch Middle I. The be and for gay and exultation,or joyous for the alarm. most proper ^ for the most solemn, 76 DRILL followingexercises The 206. less in think tyranny answerable treatment creation rank of of for to our of nature recompense are their dominion than for the The power, mismanagement our receivingany mankind species. own condition of beings is submitted seem very that for the ill use these, their the incapable imagine to lower should we rather, as creatures the over inferior entirelythe the extravagant of : principles Pitch. accountable proportion exercise of and it creatures over more will illustrate these three Middle I cannot no BOOK. renders more the of it, these for their ill in this. Fope {Spectator), Pitch. High 2Xfj, Where rests the sword Awake ! % where sleepsthe brave Cecropia'sally save the From Burst the storm Rise ! or fury of Phocis' on Greece the blast ; for walls ; falls ever " " I Up The or Freedom breathes jarringStates obsequiousnow. View Thunder the Patriot's hand gathering on his Borne by voice,one (Very high.) " Grasp Lead the tide of words "To Let to high ; his eye. along. mind, inspirethe throng, arms, to armSy the shield and us on hrow. Lightning flashingfrom One her last. to the draw arms," they cry; sword. JPhilippi's lord; us conquer him " or die ! " % 78 DRILL - 208. " Low 'Tis the very now When do such And Would witchingtime the bitter quake I will " JOHN I had is in the with his iron on||into If this same]Iwere thou too Romilet. " HUBERT. is throwing say, full oi " out deep a dark tions sugges- orotund but let it g6 voice : drowsy a brazen race of If the mouth night; church-yard^where possessed| with a midnightheW\ thousand stand, we wrongs ; |melancholy 11if that surlyspirit] Or Had bdked Which else Making And thy blo6d,and runs that tickling] |up to cheeks]) to passionhd,tefuV\ Or, if made it and idiot] |laughter]] keep strain their that thou ; gawds (verydeep.) tongue and the Sound And AND none." heaven, and the proud day audience, give me Did ever bosom. use thingto a and Is all too wanton, To blood mother. to my Arthur, speaks in young John. sun hot day let not : this firm the King, who selection, King the speak daggersto her, but to murder The vdture \ enter KING In this I drink out cruel,not unnatural. be me could Soft ! now on. thy night, hell itself breathes now ; of business,as to look soul of Nero The Let and world ! heart, lose not Oh Pitch. churchyardsyawn Contagion to A BOOK. my couldst h^avy,thicky down the men's eyes, idle merriment v^ins, ; piirpos^s ; set me)|without ^ " y eysSj Lower. Hedr me|| without Without a Without thine 79 BOOK. DRILL and earSj make tdnguSfusing conceit al6ne, ears, and eyes, harmful into But ah, And by I will n6t : ||pour yet " troth I my that my Though By heaven, I death lov'st " cmd Do On (very slow) what I not bid you my yon know he deeper as Hubert, Hubert, Hubert, Good well. me adjunct to were (deeper). (deeper still well; me take. under- act, do it. would John I love thee well that " day, thoughts; my thou think\\ (louder).So Hubert King bosom thy w6rds, of sounds watchful Then, in despiteof brooded|| I would reply|| wouldst ? advances.) throw bby :\\I young thou thine tell thee eyes what, my friend. He a very is|| And in my serpent wheresoe'er :|| Dost thou (verydeep and slow.)Thou And " Hubert. King Hubert John John him keep his me? keeper. s6,that he shall not 0/ (whisper). Death. " My " Til art understand Majesty. your King doth tread this foot of mine ^^foreme Hell li^^ll Hubert. ; way lord? (starting.) (whisper). A " (very low). " He grave. shall not live. Shakespeare. 80 DRILL Rate 209. The in has the movement term in music speech as quick,accordingto emotion. The the In the sentiments those are they reverence, dignifiedmovement, with and the articles and time is stress uttered natural fluence the in- rapidity,and with sing the Old (par. 147.) the on under or (par.144.) When sublimity, solemnity,or or wish we in the to read tone with and slow a Hundredth psalm, Moderately slowest which {sub-tonics) marks especially the utterance 211. The Th6 three faults of slow newspaper are 2. Uniform rapidity. but impressiveexpression, and long quantities, of prolongation.This liquids^,m, or n, ng, and r. avoided be drawling. movement. is monotonous not but " slowness words, all sameness words, : Uniform moderate the movement, between must 1. great rapidityis allow of the movement principalfaults 3. Uniform with of all vowels of all consonants too be must reading of narratives,essays, the by prolonging the while humour, naturally delivered we the nature expresses prolonged not only by longerpauses In other we paragraphs. When 210. and the radical stress when as are of sorrow, are median marks movement with out or feelingand reading guides expressionof joy the voice is thrown or in movement great passion,words of at which the rate the state of that which principleas emotion. cation appli- speak slowly,moderately slow, moderately quick, and same and meaning same it means " We of the Movement. or speak. very BOOK. and only opposed to often passes into all inexpressiv^e ; and dignified indistinctness. Dr. 212. " Rush recommends articulation of organs of practiceoccasionally to increase their them to execute the usual best method of teacher with that the not shall letter, " fast," pupil to considerable a thus rapidity,but hesitation." commit a distance with such enables passage from the ance complete utter- the last or word, syllable, letter,and especially a pass unheard. different rates given by at the the which exertion speech without treme ex- voice. positionof activity,and of practiceis for utmost It is also 213. time recite and memory, strengthand the over another, requiresan to tends to the rapidityof speech for acquiringcommand of making transitions from one difficulty The The 81 BOOK. DRILL of the very good practicefor fast." to the obedient movement teacher; the entire "slow," as Any very CHAPTER word slow," " will extracts class to of *' read at command moderately for this purpose. serve V. Emphasis. of stress voice. several It combines deliveryalready explained,and to is expressionof emphasis 214. The execute it with truthful 1. The Emphasis op Sense. 2. The Emphasis of Feeling, Emphasis of are or speak. These words of good principles great care and ment judg- : " Sense giving to incessantly we mere expression. forms 215. The of the demands is of two Emphasis something besides means certain viewed ob Arbitrary that classes Emphasis. greater force vhich of words grammatically are as we nouTis^ read verbs 82 BOOK. DRILL a,nd and adjectives; and articles, pronouns, auxiliary verbs this sense syllables. When is to emphasis on is to words emphasis reading word, there is every free from simply pronounced are In force. conjunctions, prepositions is marked in fact any what by equal accent accent emphasis,but no tinctive dis- or some weari- monotony. 2i6. of Sense Emphasis Within Italicized on the navel of this hideous in cypress Immersed b6m, great Gbmus, Deep skilled in all his mother's And here,to gives his baneful cup, mixed, whose murmurs many witcheries; thirstywanderer every By sly enchantment With visagequite transfhrmsof The the And ingloriouslikeness instead,unmoulding Fixes in the Charactered wood, a sbrcerer shadesjl dwells, of Circe and Of Bacchus Words. of pleasingpoison him a that drinks ^ beast reason! mintage s /dee. Milton. bdld are Evil as a the When the when wicked and The point of not righteous are heareth in but the righteous is in demand antithesis are expressed. the seek the rule,the people mourn. sense high and they that but authority,the peoplerejoice; of emphasis The but pursueth ; man judgment; all things. understand men no lion. understand Ldrd " flee,when wicked The low, the rich enjoyment,much nearer and to where the poor, each rison compa- approach,in other than is DRILL here state Providence imagined. commonly should feelingsof pleasureare the higher departments a HOMER In Hbmer the strengthof styleis more uniform. The sinks below on because " " now of the the former. " be Thou art Here, to of not of art,are Virgil,all the the much meant. with " most The cai-rect. the warming fancy ; Hdmer*s heart. elegantand sublimityto a latter,in return, never cannot so Blair, is often explainthe of answer those FEELING. OP Feeling it does is uttered action confined most occasions strong givesexpressionto some the speaker. Thus, if I ask governs Here of many but important duty, the portion pro- VirgiVs moi'e ; ; but EMPHASIS Hmphasis, same degi-eeof epic dignity,which clearlybe pronounced of 217. Emphasis are and touching the of attains never certain a has first the latter cMste most animated and the in vivacity ; lies in his power former simple the poor imagination is by latter in his power of the which all Greek copious; VirgiVs,the rich and If VIRGIL. AND Hbmer^s stateliness. Roman that discern we pain. true.^* genuine and the most to be in circle lie that of after all the refinements satis/actumswhich, natural found within circle, yet narrow more If demands. If dangers. If bpu- it increases gratifications, desires and our any- livelyin more those are vanity,it multipliesour our greatness flatters our and also life,so that entirelymiserable. or numerous more of intended never completelyhappy be the lence increases 83 BOOK. am feelingwould more than And Nathan of sense feelingthat when Arbitrary called passage, for the moment I to go be usual a *' force said unto on Go some now." if instantaneous David, the man." as prophethas prepared the King for the rebuke, he parableand explains it by uttering Thou with the completesthe Si DRILL Several extraordinaryforce. a complete expressionof 1. We must 2. We the it in utter 3. We must dwell 4. We must use 5. The word voice of qualities Emphasis before pause must BOOK, of necessary to Feeling. utteringthe word. higher pitch a are than the preceding words. emphasis. class,both to his ask we has the was one given with genuine passion and of 1. Read he adds Here pause of in Nathan's emphasized,we answer, againstguilt,unconscious anger because he had supposed some gives tenfold efiect Nathan force Thus to "Thou." expressingthe emphasis may be " Nathan before " before,pause, as 3. Read again,pause, 4. Read with the emphasis of feeling. and David, Thou raise the raise the all the above italics show said to art the man.** Thou." 2. Head The forms : "And " is to be Then criminal. 219. Again, the method analyzedthus executing it. why "Thou" expressedhis reproofwhen of both to questionthe profitable giving the emphasis to the proper for reason manner fulness. truth- will find it guilty person, the was teacher the the David that he other The and if parable, because word. fallinginflection. be must to as word the the upon followingselections present examples 218. The of longer voice pitch, and methods, and emphasis of sense; on "Thou.* prolong "Thou.'* flectio ingivinga falling the heavy letters the S6 DRILL In the 221. following passage leadingmembers When bow Blew " the " fourth again descends " the " is the lower. The inspiringair,"as predicateof reads the voice. of call" it must of the call" is in " ** rung," the hunter's intransitive call" its verb object,and the grammar and the fulness" cheerticiple par- uttering voice line same the ; same appositionwith " that dale and make is made rung is it becomes rise to inspiringair." If. however, the reader deliver hunter's thicket rung" as high as call,"and after " the After " " and " "cheerfulness,"the hunter's " known. cheerfulness " rung of the line and remaining clause hunter's thicket leading word, if the reader pitch as the Dryad remainder action same to utter and pitchas mere in the reading when pitchas the filing, that dale and line ; but same hue, morning dew, " the read are flung"in the inspiringair" but cheerfulness lines predicateby shoulder call,to Fawn highest; is in the " letters indicate the of healthiest nymph inspiringair and succeedingtwo a with gemmed an word loudest read her across hunter's The 222. heavy " buskins The the : Cheerfulness, Her Her BOOK. no pause transitive and sense are both violated. followingare The 223. additional indicatingthe leadingmembers ratingthem : " while Thus Thrice Here, as examples,the small capitals and the parentheses separ " he | each spake] changed ire,envy the relation must with and be shown pale),ire, despair"are by the (dimmed passion envy and his despair. to appositives emphatic tie. face. passion, 87 BOOK. DRILL CHAPTER VL Transition. variety proper is Transition 224. By To give the they read, fail 227. As study, its 228. " If it be 229. The stronger on stormy or noisy debate, it the heavy letters the latter (Soft.) Soft And proper only can the variety. be plished accom- previous subjects studies. for voice tween be- harmony the sentiment must be high be read dashes are and soft and in contentious, as becomes The margin. or should followingexercises suggestionsin italics and gentleness,the turbulent excitingand this subjectof descriptionor and But perfectlywhat be must subject. sentiment. the If the of calmness gentle. and voice give of these end the There Rule." General Explanation. one place is proper to power mastering all and the understand may agreeabletransition studying the be vocal and correct after of in the aloud, demands read we conception of people,who educated giving monotony. all varietyto correct a is transition proper great judgment and the best of power reading. to 225. Reading without 226. the meant or war powerful. according to the for pauses the ; emphasis,the emphasis being : " | is the the strain smooth | when stream zephyr gently blows, | in smoother number flows; (Louder.) But when lovd surges lash the sounding shorCy Y; 8S DRILL (Slow but The "The line Not | Flies rock's weight vast throw, labours, and too | o'er the swift Camilla when so | some strives Aj ax to Lively.) like the torrent r5ar. When and should hoarse,rough verse Strong.) (Quick BOOK, the unbending words | scours move slow; the plain, | and corn skims main. along the Fope. n. (Low Oro- TUND.) (Solemn.) Yet " It is awful thing to and dread a Mysterious worlds Where far Time's sigh, partingspirit's the half I hear die /" \ untravelled by wandering tide the sun, has never riin, From and shades unfathom'd your viewless spheres A (Loud Oro- warning 'Tis Heaven's by other ears. commanding trumpet, long and 16ud, TUND.) Like While The (Tremoe.) | unheard comes And, The With And \ pealing from Sinai's thunder hears nature shock \ that like the roaring mortal with hurls her terrors shrinks, and and fabric to the dust called | clouds hovers ! terror-mingledtriist. trembling Hebrew, waves, the cloud when upon he his immortal | o'er ; tiod Gody bliss. tlie dark abyss! Camipbell. DRILL 89 BOOK. IIL (Orotu/ndthrouglwut.) (Low These, AND but Are Soft.) they change, Almighty Father, as the The God. varied th^se rollingyear Is full of Thee. And oft And oft at By voice thy | in dawn, deep and brooks speaks; fallingeve, or noon, hollow | in groves thunder dreadful whispering gales, winter In (Strong " \ awful and Louder.) thrown, tempest o'er tempest rdlled. Majesticda/rkness ! On the humblest with nature wing, whirlwind's the bidd'st Riding sublime,TJiou And clouds (^Louder)with ! storms Thee Around TJwu thy world adore. blast." northern Thomson. IV. Richelieu.) (From Richelieu. (Sternly " de Adrian men have called me cruel; Calm.) (Louder.) Mauprat, I am not I ; asunder The rich Sloth Brawls men I in the just. am " I found France " | despots,and mArt, and the poor schism within \ festeringto rebellion; and Rotting away | r"rd with rust \ banditti the weak | in antique sheaths. laws ; 90 DRILL (High and Swelling.) I have BOOK. recreated France Of the old feudal and | on Civilization from and ; the ashes decrepidcdrcdsBy her luminous like,to Soars, ^phoenixll " wings, What Jove. was my art? (Mockery.) Genius \some say, Pure and Not so and Tone.) Force Fraud, it criielty.You Misname sdme. was||Justice. art ; my " witchcraft (SneerJ (High fortune, some " shall confuteth^,m JBulwer. My champion,you." S^^^' hohenlinden. (Low.) Linden, when All bloodless, lay the dark And winter as Linden But (Monotone.)When (Bolder.) By (Very bold.) torch Each And and Loud.) sight, of nighty light of her scenery. trumpet fast arrayed, and drew his battle blade, furious every charger neighed, join the dreadfulrevelry. Then shook Then rushed And the fl6w was fires of death to darkness warrior To (High snow, beat at dead the drum The I(5w, was untrodden another saw Commanding sun I rollingrapidly. Of Iser (Louder.) the On louder the hills the | than "a.r fashed ! | with thunder steeds to battle the | the bolts of red riven, driven, Heaven, artillery. DRILL And (Deeper BUT Strong.) yet | those fires shall gUw, redder darker And *Tis morn, (Monotone.) Can I rollingrapidly. but Sh5ut The clouds' war Fratik '^^uSi^ fuAous rollingdun, amdi their I in fieryHun sulphurous can5py. deepens ! combat lurid siin scarce yon piercethe (Loud.) and (High " On, rush to Who (Very high.) \Vave (Plaintive AND low, with all thy | with I charge The \ shall snow every Shall be ^ soldier^s a ! grave all wave, thy chivalry. ! meet winding sheet. | beneath turf brave, ye many their be powerful.) banners ! few shall jmi-t when Ah And Tremor. the gl6ry,or I Munich, And ; the flow shall be yet Of Iser (Higher.) sn6w hills of blood-stained Linden's On 91 BOOK. their f(6et sepulchre. Campbell. Yl. THE (Low AND Mournful.) With And The [^ DEATH MARMION. OF fruitless labour to stanch strove Monk Exhausted the bound gushing w6und | with unavailing cares, all the Church's (Very that Ever| he said,| DEEP.) A And | Clara that the For, that close and in his lady's voice I was priest | he she ever prayers ; n^ar, ^ar, could siing: not h^ar, ; 92 BOOK. DRILL (Very high not but soft and monotone like *^ pitch, In the loud, Where So the war's of the groans (Middle down by flying, mingle chant.) a I borne lost battle the rattle dying | with 1" not^ rung. PITCH.) " OROTUND.) Shake (Higher.) O not\the dying look, my think (Lower.) By (With And many But TREMOR.) (Louder The AND Now And A for a been, partingseen, this.^" space did fail, swelled treblythunndering\\ higher.) (Quicker.) I never\aught like wdr\ that I Stanley ! the was Marmion's on light\ ; bliss ! have sinner's ; sign faith and I on a many sand grace\divine death-bed a sinner's yon son, upon Of the Redeemer's O cruel hand ! with thee, fiend Av6id (Deep the gah, cry, visagespread And/irec?|his glazing.eye ; With shook He (High.) And (Thor- fragments (*fhis blade, shouted Charge| "Victory," " Victory ! " On ! " to POWER Charge.") As ; On" Ghester\CHARGE Stanley GREAT WITH '' the h^ad| STRESS OUGH ON his dying hand I above he utters Were " the last words Stanley " the voice of Marmion.*^ grows fainter,gasping at the last "On." The last line is given calmly,but mournfully. 94 DRILL (Very low.) Oh, G6d (Orotund Th^e, \ if But Thou tremor.) Yet I execute (Higher, Oh, mingled with (Calm I pray cannot avenged \ on wrath |on wife guiltless my appease misdeeds, my | al6ne me and my ; poor ! thee, gentlekeeper | stay by soul is My mournful.) be Thy children but deep prayers my wilt spare plaintive.) BOOK. I fain heavy,and me would ; sleep. Shakespeare, VII. CHAPTER Imitative Modulation. . 230. In the and words fictionists, have the serpent is said a to and word the are the who sound like the natural HARSH On The a infernal Harsh sound the of another in examples as utter certain roar is of OF HEAVY sudden open fly gates,and on their " bird When when a to crash rattle,the to " analogy plainly discernible." this those kind ; and in words words possible. sound thunder. to pictureembodied must A " fallingtimber hail thing sounds, and it emits. which the realize the would echo sound flow,and Poetry and fiction abound reader the hiss,a flyto buzz, and is said to of natural appropriateness. is said to whistle and stream between great imaginativeauthors,poets often the echo are cuckoo, from sort of wind when the selected for their been is called one compositionsof GATES. hingesgrate as the which nearly by into serpents. selected the Their To fill his ear, On all he stood sides,from hiss To forked Alike, To to tongue, his bold Of riot ; dreadful hissing through With asp, Cerastes homed, with blood Ophiusa);but Now di-agongrown, Engendered Huge Above stUl in the Python, and thick of hears " " would have with forked spoke, tongue all transformed the din was hall,thick swarming head and now tail, amiphishcenadire, hydrus dipsa^ (not so Bedropt and " ctccessoriea complicated monsters, Scorpion and And the : purpose " were now serpents all,as have sound " returned for transformed tongues, hisS, the " hiss for general high applause He But a expecting innumerable publicscorn. himself success appropriatewords how when, contrary, he dismalj universal Of with for the and shout universal with entertained are see great poet having said, awhile So A will reader The by applause is audience, who his infernal hiss been of instead against man, his exultation with related having Satan 231. 95 BOOK. DRILL and elopsdrear. swarmed Gorgon, the soil once the isle or gi-eat,he, the midst. largerthan Pythian his power vale no whom or the sun slime. less he seemed the rest, still to retain. Milton. 96 DRILL SOUND BOOK. A OF BOW The short and Twanged STRING. stringlet fly, the shrill swallow's sharp,like cry. Fope. OF SLOWNESS the march First heavy mules hills,der dales,o^er O'er MOTION. securelyslow, o'er rocks crags, they go. Pope. Bells. The I. BELLS. SLEIGH J) well tones. kind the italics like on in the of bells named Hear Silver hells ! world a soft but very chanting,but imitative pure of the verse. sledgeswith the What natural, and C Begin High Pitch, about their bells, ^ | their melody of merriment foret^ZZs .' they tinkle,tinkle,tinkle,^ How In the icy air the While All the stars heavens With a of night, | that oversprinkle. | seem twinkle to crystaUme delight; Keeping time, time,time, ^ In To a sort of Kunic the tintinnabulation From rhyme. \ that 1. Dwell on 2. Imit'ate. the the musicallyweZfe the hells, hells, hells. Bells, Bells, Bells. From so jinglingand "lis." the * tinklingof 3. Chant 4. Imitate " the bells. time," dwellhigon sleijjhbells. the "m," DRILL 97 BOOK. II. BELLS. WEDDING This is " stanza the radical livelyand quick; bells " should the italics ; chime Hear the a How the What ! happiness |their harmony fcyi-etelU balmy dove the golden notes, moon out of the ! the future Of the ^ euphony voluminously wells it dioells " ! How it tells and the 5. the bells,bells,bells,bells," rhyming and Chant. Very soft. 7. All soft,and H the ! chiming of the hells. '* 9. Chant 6. 8- Chant. ringing i"hells, hells, hells, Bells, bells,bells To 1 rapture that impels swinging Of the gloats sounding cells * How the she when | that listens, it swells ! Of the night delight! their How On air of ^ liquiddittyfloats, gush a To of turtle Oh, from natural,chant all in tune. a On C to * hells I the And To A from " the molten What and (par.144) prevails, heavy type : they ring out From movement " world Through The last. wedding bells the Golden What the stress Pitch chimed. be than louder be must 10. high, and musicaL italics. Chant. 11. Chime merrily. 12. Chant, dwell on "bella." " 98 DEILL BOOK. III. FIRE Bold loud, but and not BELLS. thorough stress (par. 147). and fast and sometimes P high pitch,from too No sometimes to A. the chimes, and slow, with dian Mement move- expression an of alarm. Hear loud the Brazen What startled In the How they much Too ^^ hells^ tale cf terror a They hells-" alarum ear " now their of night. their out scream twrhulencytells! ^* ! affright to speak, horrified ^^ only shriek,shriek can of tune, Out In a clamorous In a mad the mercy appealing \ to with expostulation!] the of the deaf and ! ^^ fire frantic ^re, Leaping higher,higher,higher" With And the side||of the What a Of How 13. Toll Half or the tale | their horror and Loud. Prolong " tells clash||and 17. Rise a note fire." In a ^ harsh, loud tone, on each like a bell. 18. Quick and loud. 19. Low pitch and slow. like a loud bell. sound 20. roar, they outpour chant. 16. terror ^^ like fire bell. 15. ! ^^ bells, bells, bells, despair! a never pale-facedmoon they clangH What ', endeavour, to sit now Oh, 14. desperate desire resolute a Now, By a " higher," and " On the bosom Yet the ear it By the tvmnging the the How ! fullyknows clanging^ danger sinks (1) the sinkingor the 99 BOOK. palpitatingair of the And By DRILL and swells,(2) the anger swellingor ** of the hells; the hells" Of ^ hells, hells, hells,hells, Of the Bells, bells, In the clamor the and ^ bells, f the clangor o bells ! IV. FUNERAL The funeral should tone bells be bells. but deep loud not the and suggest tolling, in this stanza. swelling tones or The median stress. Hear the Iron What In the How At For silence of the ^ shiver every And They sound the rust Is night ; with affright, the of their tone I that floats within their throats * a groan. people ah, " that dwell (1) soft, (2) loud. 22. Slow and 23. Quick and thought their monody compels ! solemn melancholy menace From 21. of we the ^ hells. word a of the bells, tolling up the people in the 24. Deep deep. " steeple, and prolonged monotoney ciallyon tollinjf." " loud. 25. 26. Tolling like a Tremulous. belL espe' 100 DRILL All Ami In Feel BOOK. alone / who ^ tolling,tolling tolling, that muffledmonotone, glory in a On rdlling^ so the human heart They are neither man They are neither brute They their And he And nor stone. woman- human- nor tolls,^ it is who king rolls,rolls,rolls,rolls,** fi'om the hells ! pcean his merry bosom the pcean With dances he And |a ghouls. are And A " swells of the and he hells ! yells; ^^ Keeping time,time,time,^ In a To sort of Runic the pcean Of the rhym"e. of the hells^^ hells; Keeping time, time,time, In a To sort the Of the To of Runic rhyme, throhhing of the ^ hells, hells. hells, hells, the ^ sohhing of the hells, Keeping time, time,time, As In a he knells,knells,knells,** happy Runic rhyme. 31. 27. Imitate 28. Higher Pitch. 32. 29. Loud. Imitate 33. Very loud. solemn. Deeper and more Deep toll and slow. 34. Give 30. funeral bell. strong tollingbell. 35. Very deep tolling. tremor here. 102 BOOK. DRILL "" let BloWy Blcyw^ hear us bugle the echoes, answer replying; glens purple djing. dying || dying, y y "" "" Oh die they love, on rich yon sky, "" "" They faint on hill, field, on "" Our echoes And for grow from ever "" soul and soul, to for (deeper) ever. "" bugle, blow, set the wild echoes "" And ; "" "" Blow roll river on answer, echoes, answer " dying, /lying ; "" "" dying, dying. Tennyson. V. SECTION Accent, language." words that syllable " will there than more accent, 234. do as PORcupiTie, In common But voice the modulated, unaccented 236. called When When regular order, Note. to more than two are syllable. other, bles sylla- In such other and writing,the in very regular or writer a influence but the of words, in the to passions, imagination, if even the bles sylla- order. appeals the accented only not but spoken not succession of accented syllables. this regularity the accented is not uniform, in as poetry, it is rhythm. 237. every the prima/ry, the lir^hterthe secondary only written, acquire regularity and than philosophy. speaker a under composes the each when into accented an heavier heavier a conversation succeed not 235. is the is called heavier the cases there and have syllable sounded When lighter a introduced proportion one syllable is is, one be of Metre. Lessons. English of and principle a eagle,father, Joseph. as or Abbott's " All 233. is Rhythm " 232. Rhythm " The every early stage As word, it will of children advance they mark and and syllables unaccented poetry, it is called tendency syllable. accent in as and unless deform to the habit is to read reading they this in metre. learning in follow is delivery accent still continue checked of adult at an age. 104 DRILL If every be word and accented,not only would painfullyslow, expressionwould be order the compositions, reader each III. Let IV. When if a as for substitute in into and sections,similar be must reading or be, syllable or accented omitted 240. In the upright dash 1. The with commences there 3. When a rhythmical bars word in music. ble. sylla- or expression,as articles, each either they must leadingwords, beforethem, or as syllable. that groups in notes the accented of words music, divided and, as syllables, with commencing' of equal length to an the syllable. syllableis accented vowel pause following sentence 2. When or a as bar forming bars, each accented of of these rules may to brief silence a word from seen all accented an with syllable, governed by regularportions, in music, shades regularintervals. begin with accented It will be speech at into there an veniently incon- " unaccented an lightsand expression to prepositions,occur, alone they stand the readingbe Rhythmically. monosyllablesdestitute combined, 239. of must section conjunctions,or be music the words Divide all Reading frequentlyand I. Pause II. for give the to but the destroyed, Rules 238. In BOOK. is no accent leadingword sound is of an each accented bar marked by the syllable. in italics. a one cypher (0) precedesthe syllableoccurs, short, a c^\A\^'c followssuch and a words. its quantity word. 4. When and pauses the time fills up of he silence,or with bar a either reader word, the such follows cypher a 105 BOOK. DRILL longs pro- the word. In 0. all 2 1 0 music, occupies the time same In 7 ond " | cen | pire of " Ipoo'tion\ 0 of fourteenth the " cypher before the where it stands. words with -which can bars count we | ra pre 12 3 and 4 the the" ; but silent pause and each n, all of those of others. bar, the 4 sections " " 4 | civ-ilized for silence, 243. The followingpassage o" 12 of the 12 ^"^""^^ 1234 arranged in | com- 12 12 " | 123 **" | s"*^'^*- [ | earth | por-tion| is | me 34 34 12 | Christ^ian of the 4 [ part" 123 1234 |K 123 est Si J stands order. each bar. occupied by 1234 of | em-pire | fair" the | most a in ed civiliz- " alone ai-e of the to 4 1234 Ihended be 123 123 1334 ^^ 1234 4 time common " the Hence one any as bar " earth " m liquids, utterance. 12341234 1. 234 " must two each eighth twentieth t, and as word in the ^-^g| seo-on.di \ ceut-uvy \ ^^ jj^ " accordingto regularbeat, 1, 2, 3, 4. 1234 Silence, e " the word and and time same uttered be ninth in the that there means long vowels, o be prolonged 2z|2. If | civ 0 passage for utterance empire of " The occupiesthe would " occupiedby the " | most above Thus long time as or is bar seventh The takes seventeenth in the time. length of bar .16 the and the reading " same | the ed " | kind. man 241. Explanatimi. In occupiesthe J 20 19 18 17 ilized |0 ian " 11 | hend 15 0 , . | Christ 10 | em-th the of the \ 0 compre | Home 14 |part est " J* of 9 em 13 IJ fair |0 tury " 8 | 0 the ra " 4 3 I sec the 6 ^^ in bar, as deliveiy. in e each cases 34 of man this 1234 |k-i-nd. rhythmical 106 DRILL precedesthe dash A the of absence accented accented an BOOK. and syllable, a cypher indicates : syllable " with | you then | 0 to decide | whether that | freedom | voice | 0 the | kingdoms | of Europe | 0 at | whose I 0 a Iwoke from the | sleep of | ages, | 0 to | run a ca|reerof I virtuous I emu |lation | 0 in | everything | great and | | which dis|pelledthe | mists of good ; I 0 0 I 0 the | freedom | 0 and in|vitedthe | nations | 0 to be |hold Isuper|sbition, their | God ; | 0 0 | 0 whose | magic | touch 0 | kindled the | the en|thusiasm of | poetry, | 0 and the | rays of | genius, | 0 flame of | eloquence; | 0 0 | 0 the | freedom | 0 which | poured into our | lap 0 |opulence | 0 and | arts, | 0 0 | 0 and em-| in |numerable with bellished | life | 0 |insti|tutions | 0 and a | theatre of | wonders; | 00 | 0 tillit be |came im|provements, I 0 0 I 0 it is for I you | 0 to de|cide0 | 0 whether | this | freedom | 0 or | perish \ 0 for|ever.| | 0 shall |yet sur|vive, It Imains re " to (bj so the voice rises from rhetorical the (c) metre." avoid The the metre I. Regard weight accented and to the the defect the accented voice non-modulation modulation rises from rhythm, to (c) singing, (a) conversational and from rhythm to English Lessons, the avoid from (b) rhetorical to of following rules and and conversational words reading poetry 245. When metre, but of ment Abbott's " (a) modulation, arrange non-arrangement 246. with occurringat regularintervals. syllables, unaccented As POETRY. It is written poetry is metrical. 244. AH *' READ TO HOW in we must sustain the music of the sing-song. will assist the reader to preserve sing-song: " but syllables, do not give pronouncingsuch syllables. too much DRILL II. Do sing-songthe In the alter not syllable: e. g. Oh, keep let If it to be sure on the accented un- stray never ITiee. each slightlyon If it also read we italic it all syllableand force more emphasis demands the pitch where the and^a^ tempter flee; never, sing-song. syllableor word. Thy heavenlyway. unaccented, giving the on in raise the voice we the accented on happinessand From accented " me me the ; hid the And And pitch for rises voice 107 BOOK. on a drop voice,it is of level,only varying it,the tendency will be diminished. III. it,before allows sense Thus in : \ shall In the allows of and stanza with I length of syllablesand dwell Never it. monosyllable,pause, if the word. if we the pause, the pauses sing-songis restr. between words, and vary long Thus of regularity in reading the metre it On And Linden's darker yet those flresshall glow, hills of blood-st"med yet shall he the flow Of /ser, rolling rapidly. snow the as sense positions pre- following unavoidably " redder the unimportant words, on sing-song : And | soul weary words, especiallywhen conjunctions. all the \ my bathe | of heavenly seas the Vary length a " There IV. such be followingwords, the diminished word accented the If ; comes be- 108 DRILL Now observe BOOK. the pauses, and in lengthenthe syllables italics. those ^^res| An.d\\redderj/eif [shallglow, || On Linden's hlood-stained hills\\of darker be the flow 2^e^||shall And Of snow ; lser\\r6[ling\\rB.pidlj. Butl|tothe hero, whenjlhissioord Has "70?zl|the battle] |forthe free, a propheVs word, Thy\\voice\\sounds\^\k.e heard And||inits hollow tones\\2i,vQ The V. In reading third line sense be very word should word to he. thanksljof millions\\yet of should we the a in tone line should Avoid dependent end last line. as loud VII. word and Avoid with the twist 247. In cases in the high descent great and on be on which a the the last word an that noun pause. or The last the on last words finalword the of a is 7iot ending the voice last kind a descent. where the last word commences the inflection next is a his in reliques| the Brighttemple,to Egyptian Thebes |he a position pre- line, there also must be of the line. to enshrine to other. any or adjectivequalifying, proper and pitch ought defect of rarelyoccur, possessive case, no When as common upwards, instead governing a should that word on line,its variety,the last fallinginflection, For risingpitchand inflection, givingthe a leap and noun as the unless the third line. on The of that with the commence pitch; and, descending step by step on the we of pitch,but of inflection.Otherwise one of descend second of syllables be stanzas, when complete at the termination have a rising inflection. unless that line be VI. four-line sun's flies. Milton, served ob- SECTION VI. SELECTIONS These 249. with reading, italics and selections and head and both the for the transfer and pauses that them, the words be inflection, any and expressive the words with pause these to marks frequently the spirit "f tioned ques- emphasis, or pause in passage criticism. and review should pupils of emphatic expressive literaiy structure under with study reading according the reason for the notes, the In It will also be of 250. with and words the to as brought foot marks. emphasized and and PRACTICE. prepared are heavy type, inflection FOR advantage emphases pupils to other to the see may change the inflections words, effect dispense or of and violatingor neglecting elocutionary principles. reading a In 252. and mechanical with pupils following. and the inflections 2. Let the poetry. are plan each and Let phrases, the pauses be the teacher longer leading than usual, marked. very teacher Then same for it is apt as style. monotonous clauses the verse continued, " and the be not simultaneous : 1. Commence on with commence practising simultaneously the followingmethods recommended of to should method this ; but in end to for the teacher It is well 251. read a stanza let the pupils with chapter a simultaneous " not read of more than four Practise simultaneously. the practice. Bible, taking lines an entii'e read passage, practicethe this 4. In be observed. should only by if uttered be must pauses the articulation should word It is the / it lip! " for ! can part of needs all,whether over Iand nature ! his first " it that " " " causes been it renders all the sweetest vast quivers| now it is eye ! | long many the tion emana- an of sense of yeai-s the bosom visitations of received habituated ! " of reason / no unceasing it ! " the glow " arguments his last with ndture, and | into ^it ! Tnemory indulgenceof it fires emotion man \ where " a h^ngs crease in- can of it is the sacrament amongst to " ! awe it is ! pre-existing, paramount " riile,few Instinct energiesof aid asks but ditty, it is its collected re- | it debt | countless duty \ drops \it human or only the it the diminish can requitesthe have of " " so love! into great privilege ! delights it ! every own good^ soothes, its proper man stinctiv in- that " cares self-demalsj^i/e-preserving law none not " to the deductions not society it is of bond from practice,where our | refines reverence emphases alike, and Reading. primal for pay, solicitudes,honorable that than longer PIETY. beams now is eager goodj ne'er, alas a little which, softeningunder gratitiide that of as distinctly, The hymn. " FILIAL every " unison " heard singing and principle which, panting for of and sensibility unbidden, each sense on whole perfect. I. Piety be in as inflections Selections Filial the selection. observed, but perhaps a well pupils regularityand voice, just one first read other or utmost Every reading,the in individual has teacher the until verses or chapter,poem, whole a stanzas after the by themselves, can of tlie number 3. Increase Ill BOOK. DRILL man " our it is endearing most love ! reverberated returns the blessings | into vital principle Tnaster-passionsways " over each vicissitiide | 112 DRILL of all that last sad their and must awky to life, pass tasks of " breathes sweet | in the melancholy cheer the languors of decrepitude elucidates thought " consolation virtues aids " exploresthe kge BOOK. \ even in the aching awful the eye and " of moments solution dis- / Sheridan. IL WAR WITH and (Appeal I but cannot patriots,of and age Invocation.) virtuous the imagine every NAPOLEON. country, and heroes, legislators, from bending are their ele^ | to witness this contest, as if they were incapable, till it be brought to a favourable of enjoyingtheir eternal issiie, repbse. Enjoy that rep5se,illustrious immortals ! Your mantle vated seats fell when you and spirit, impatientto ascended ; and thousands, in your tread with inflamed ready steps,are your "to swear and \ that sitteth upon the throne,and liveth for ever ever,"||they will protect Freedom |in her last asylum, and desert that cause never j which you sustained by your labours, by Him and the children *' with cemented gird of men, Thy on hosts in the heroes Thine eyes of battle ! day hand, and of it shall as by the spark ; quench of the Mighty," their hearts |the with Thine bwn shall the and strong they with our tary heredi- Thy springsfrom spirit of departed : and, in every illumination bel6ng, to their while " man shall both led Thou Thy bdn/ners,open valley, and among earth forth go addition | which same Then " shields Impart, in sole Ruler Thou, success in every a Most fightingunder behold horses of ftre ! njone into And the of confidence Pour prophet beheld maker thou Inspire them ! | to whom to sword, valour, that presence! blo6d. your plain,what chariots be as burn oi by their the fire,and tow, and the together,and them." Robert Hall. in. The DANIEL dignity,and in the Belshazzab. Art thou that whom the excellence As in the gods ? and | and interpret, Read Of scarlet shall invest g61d adorn thee Own Daniel. the thy rewards G(5d,will The limbs read Zorc2 of hosts Nabonassar, O'er all the God's ; and an Companion Round the servant the king. all-ruling sceptre But outcast from of the wild death, he slew where he his word then willed,men debased browsing asses their unenvied the lord the s6ns nightI fell cold|upon And thyself. ; swelled up ; and, in its ! to heaven Became ! nations,kingdoms,languages; his heart so Arose reklm writing to the exalted,and word And world I to thy great ancestor, gave he vMled Where'er chain the " 1, the and paramount of life Lord import, all the others. to behold ! rider of Chaldea's I third " satrap robe and " ; wall, Belshazzar,be thy giftsunto " And Of thy neck race] dwells]| sages the thy the Hebrew thy fame heard Chaldea's of wisest Bafflethe His Daniel\of of their fateful in the darkness That, To " oi wisdom I have and calmness : mystic letters | flaming on Yon Of voice orotund In Of given with great be must best " BELSHAZZAR. BEFORE of Daniel answer 113 BOOK. DRILL of the peer of earth of m^n " beasts ! the his crownless desert ! pride. dews br6w, | fed And so he knew lived ; 114 DRILL That God But BOOK. o'er sovei-eign] is thou, his earth's s6n, unwarned, sceptred lords. untaught, untamed, Belshazzdr,hast arisen againstthe Lord, in the And h6use|hast quaffed 'mid thy libations, Profane and slaves gods of gold,and st6ne,and wood, To The King khigs,the of Nmnhered ! God words, and the I hear Now ** of His vessels " " twice of women, and gods, to laughed scorn. their secret hear Numbered meaning " Weighed ! ! ded!''' Divi- King, Thy reignis numbered, wanting And Severed, and in the and thyselfart weighed, balance,and thy realm given ! conqueringPersian to Milman. IV. MERCY I would * enter on my list of friends manners (Though graced with polish'd Yet the wanting sensibility) sets needlessly Who inadvertent An crawls That But The And A at he that has tread Will 2 not ANIMALS. TO evening in a worm. crush the the o^ide,and let the snail publicpath ; unwelcome, into to neatness and reptilelive. loathsome charged,perhaps,with Sacred fine sense, humanity, forewarn'd, creeping vermin, visitor and man foot upon step|may | venom, to the that sight, intrudes, scenes repdse,the alc(5ve, to the pilch of "friends" the parentheticclause in lower pitch. Return on "man," thus connecting by the emphatic tie. (Par. 220.) " " with 2. Connect creeping vermin die," reading both phrases in a louder may tone. clause in lower the a and intervening tone, L Read the word " The A chamber, Not held when, so Or their take they TJiere\ within their proper The are the Disturbs when Who, pastime in them harms Or the of economy he that nature's If man's paramount Else they free to As God His abode. an claims things that enjoy that form love mercy, are " life, them| at sovereignwisdom] Ye, therefore,who love it realm, extinguishtheirs, meanest to | to free must the " live,and was I in Who | and all are As wrong, convenience, health, safetyinterfere,his rightsand Are a : hunts she/orm'c?,designedthem : air, spacious field and privileged ; bbiindy, the range there,is guiltyof is this sum Or To blame. no of offence,they guiltless And die" refectory, may or act|incurs necessary 115 BOOK. DRILL made teach the first, them all. sons your too. Cowper. V. OF CHARGE THE BRIGADE. LIGHT 1. * Half a Half ^ All league,half a in the Rode " " valleyof the 1. Begin solemnly, pointingforward Deeper 3. Loud all the and power death the six hundred. Forward more Light to the Brigade ! right. , solemn. voice as high; fullest orotund voice, but not quickly. of the league, league owward, 2. and a in command, uttering " charge" with I)^ DRILL * BOOK. Charge for the Into valleyof the Eode said. guns," he death the six hundred. 2. * " * Was Forward there Not a man though the Some ' soldier kn^w blundered not to make Theirs not to reason Theirs but to do the why, \ and die. valleyof death the six hundred. to rightof th^m, Cmmon to leftof them, Ccmnon in/ront of th6m, and Volleyed Storm'd "Into the shot and rode jaws and of the mouth Rode to Bolemn thundered; at with Boldly they Into : r^ply, Ca/nnbn * ! dismay'd1 had one Kode 4. Ret\irn Light Brigade Theirs Into " the shell, well, death, of hell the six hundred. delivery as No. 2. Similar to No. 3. and boldness. 6. With energy 2. 7. Same as No. 5. 8. Loud 9. Dwell 10. Utter imitative. and " on " volley'dand thxmdered." with great power, but bell " not too high nor too quick. 118 BOOK. DRILL 6. ^^ When Oh, their can the wild All the glory/ac?e? chargethey made world wonder'd. Hhnour the charge they Honour the Light Brigade, Noble ! six made hundred I ! Tennyson. This selection should a good exercise VI. of hamlet's solemnity The death." Hamlet. To " Or to take No m6re The That 16. High ; but : in the of " exulting tone orotund the dislike life, of ment senti- a something after is earnest manner declamation. mind| to questidn: suffer outrageous fortune, sea 'tis a of To them? and the thousand hea/rtache, flesh is heir to, " that is the sleep| to a death. and of rapid,and arms| against a and| by ness. bold- voice,it is pervaded hy dread a he, or Tibt to b^ arrows the of weariness one wrong, by opp6singj^nd And suicide Especiallyavoid stingsand The is by 'tis nobler Whether on is not movement of and practice. mind induced excitement. without * Hamlet's great animation greatest powers soliloquy action,and hatred of of with for simultaneous feelingin The all the it demands As be read say troubles, dihy " we to ' sleep " ^ end natural sh6cks ^ consummation sustained, to the last word. slowly, as if thinking aloud. " in a To sleep," uttered die," uttered slowly as if pondering the thought. with while doubt no a solved the more it if great ; satisfactorily higher tone, as is no more than of that satisfaction." "Death risinginflection completes the utterance 1. Commence 2. " low and To " ft sleep." 3. Higher tone, expressive of relief and triumph. " be wish'd. Devoutly to To I in When give us That makes For who pause pangs The insolence of of When he himself bare and But, that the No traveller makes And ? who sweat under rather us others | the And 5. AH from " this expressive to and of delay, would a ' fardelsbear, life, weary something afterdeath. | that whose | with those ills know not we bourne the of regard,their have | we 6f 1 of cowards make native hue lose the ndme second slowly contumely, quietus make all ; us resolution! of pale cast turn currents thought; moment. of great pithand enterprises this time, unworthy takes, | bear does conscience\ With 4. The man's law's from cotintryl Thus And of scoi-ns returns, puzzlesthe will ; Is sicklied o'er delivered of dread coil. the spurns his bodkin flyto thus proud of the Than And the might undiscovered The and whips office,and patientmerit come may respect despisedlove,the That dreams ; long life : so the bear The grunt ay, therms the nib " off this mortal calamity of would a ; there's the : oppressor's wrong^ With " shuffled The To dream sleepof deaih\what have we Must * that diej to sleep; * To sleep! perchance to For 119 BOOK. DRILL awry, Shakespeare. of action. of the reconsideration solemn die, to sleep" is a more mind. his is reality on the tones breaking as deeper subject, in line to each " of bare the bodkin" evils with is delivered under love " should be read with feeling,and tremor Hamlet is thinking of Ophelia. 6. From this passage is solemn, the tone lower than the preceding line. which of man voice, for mournful , passion more very and and Pangs of probably that suffers. " melancholy. tion, indignadespised moment Commence 120 DRILL VII. The BOOK. BOADICEA. followingselection hence the is reader of the one be must kind guided by that induces the song, sing- suggestion of Section V. Observe accent. L. P. the Avoid pauses. Lengthen When of the the time | the British Bleeding her Sage I beneath Sat the Druid, Full M. P. " of rage ! if Princess Weep I upon 'Tis because warrior P. " Eome full of and aged our thy grief, eyes wafc/"less \ties tongues. our write perish! " | that wr6ngs, she that w6rd has spilt ; \ hbpelessand ahhhrr'dy Perish Deep I in Rome, for Tramples Soon |he spoke. resentment shall rdds, hoary chief, word In the bl6od " Roman spreadingoak All the terrains of H. queen, country'sgods, the Every burning weight indignant mien. an \ of much too italicized words. the from Sought, with Counsel giving ruin | as empire on a far ! the Gaul guilt. ren^wn'd, thousand I her pride shall Hark in states kiss the is at her ; ground gates. " to " shall Romans Other of Heedless Sounds, not " Shall a M.P. Such invincible the bard's Bending | as he with Felt Ruslid all them to Dying, H.P. ; fl^w, they." as celestial fire, the chords swept but Of his sweet Sh6, sway prophetic words, with Pregnant wings, kn^w, never eagles | never his None with | command. Thy posterityshall Where prize, Idrid, our world "Regions I Caesar the springs that progeny wider ; fame. to thunder, clad with Arm'd path forestsof the From name shall win the | the Then arise, soldier's a arms, Harmony, 121 BOOBu DRILL . awful lyre. monarches a in her pride, bosom glow, battle,fought,and hurVd them | at died ; the foe. as pr(5ud, Ruffians,pitiless awards Heaven Empire is on Shavfie and ?fe the vengeance bestdw'd, rhin wait for you. diie ; 122 BOOK. DRILL VIII, FROM Gromwell. Wolsey and ^ WoL. I is the The tender And bears third ^ day he then Like little wanton This many Of | in summers a rude Vain pomp I feel my That More And heart Never man and pangs to he and 1. 2. bladders, on glory. has left now m6, the mercy to service, for must ^ high-blownpride my hide ever me. how wretched open'd. Oh, |that hangs that smile of |than wars their or ! aspiret6, would princes,and f"ars * favours princes' on we ruin, women have ; he falls like Ukcifer, falls, hope agkin. * And, swim of sea ventured, hate ye ; aspect sweet siirely glory of this world, I new is,betwixt when me, stream, that Is that poor There under and a depth : my old with Wea^'u and ; full man, I have / do. boys | that length hrbke At him. nips his root, ripening, a falls,as far beyond | hlbssoms, frost frost,a killing a f6rth | thick \ upon thinks,good, easy And he To-ddy |he puts : hope, to-morrow comes greatness! to all my blushinghonours his greatness is But of mkn state ledves of And, when His Act III. So. 2. " Farewell,a long farewell This The VIII. HENRY KING when Begin L.P., median Deep and solemai I am as forg6tten, stress, slow ; pause after Hekr me, I shall Crdmwell ; be. and mournful expression. fall. falls,"as if contemplating bitterlyhis own lower the tnetaphor, making the pitch than movement " the simile in a higher or 3. Read solemn thought. the leading and more metaphor 4. Begin "Oh" mournfully but passionately,as sufferingunder a sense of injustice. of the orotund is given with dignity and all the fulness to Cromwell 5. The voice. si"eech Begin in L. P. sleep| in And Of mbre me | cold mdrble, where dull and depths of his thee a A and safe one, though thy sure but out way, sin\\fell thkt By that ruined thyselflast Love Corruption Still in wins not fall'st There, take And Had by then. it ? that hate hearts thee ; blessed a then||if thou in ; 'tis the call my now I but served all I my left kin^,He me | naked the king ; robe. my is all Cromwell, Cromwell 0 | with half the God would \ to O Cromwell. fkll'st, have, king's: own. my ; : inventory of an Serve ! martyr me just,and fear nbt at||be thy country^s. integrityto Heaven, I served Have aim'st truth's ; last penny my I dare to win Be tongues. IIprithee,lead the man ; | than honesty. more thou ends Thy God^s,and And, ambition thy right hand|| carry gentlepeace, all the Thou me. can cherish those : silence envious Let To how angels; image of his Maker, hope The To the " miss'd it, master Cromwell, I charge thee,fling away honour. rise in ; wreck, to that fall,and my of ; gldry, of shoals Found Mark " all the sounded trod the ways once mention no "5f, say, I taught thee h^ard be \ must Say, \Volsey, that And 123 BOOK. DRILL not mine in mine ! zeal age enemies, Shakespeare, 6. Increased solemnity faint in action Wolsey grows kc. "'O Cromwell." and grandeur and of voice, bu^ tone resumes to the "And, words power in the prithee." closing i Here 124 IX. THE DRILL BOOK. DYING GLADIATOR. [Indignantsympathy and impassionedappeal. M. and H. P. and Thorough Stress ; last two lines high,loud and imMedian .] 1 " before see He the me his hand leans upon Consents And gladiatorlie ; death, but to And, through his side the Like the The Ere firstof ceased with He reek'd But where And his And heart,and the " n6w is gone haiPd the wretch|| that hut by to make a a with of play, he their sire holiday, " blood,^ shall " ! ye Goths, BATTLE lay. all at " Roman ; prize, the Danube mother, his Arise sound far away was barbarians their Dacian 1 his eyes lifehe lost,nor and he expire, glut your ire !" WATERLOO. OF revelryby night, Belgium'scapital| had Begin in a cheerful, livelytone, M. whispor, of tenor, aud the'remaiuder knelL" rising on 1. half he " " his young unavenged was him, one. ; and sh6ut\\which his rude this rush'd There dr6ps | ebbing \ slow, he heeded, not, not||of THE * around it,but Butchered All last won. were The7'e\\ was There\\ the thunder-shower the inhuman heard Were a swims arena He ! gash,fall heavy, one\\by red who " ag6ny conquers low" gradually|| droop'dhead|| sinks\\ his From manly brdw his " P. but , of the gather'dthdn utter line " hush ! hark ! " in solemn, slow, and a deep tone, deep, sliiihtly 126 BOOK. DRILL '' And cheeks all their out ne'er might be repeated; If more should Since night so upon there And The those meet And swiftlyforming | in And the And near, Roused whispering with Or of war ; | ere the lips white ; alarmingdrum morning with throng'dthe citizens, While steed, clattering car, the ranks of the the soldier up rise ! could morn \ peal on peal afar thunder the beat eyes, |with impetuous speed, pouring forward deep mutual the mustering squadron,and Went giiess hot haste ; the mounting | in was piess could who awful |such sweet as ; choking sighs hearts,and young ago loveliness own Which ever hour an such 'partings, sudden were life from but pale,which praiseof at the there The ^^ fr6, and gathering tears, and tremblingsof distress, And * hurryingto was And Blushed " there and ! then Ah " " terror The star ; dumb, foe ! They cbme ! They come!" And wild and The war-note of " CamerorHs in the How Savage and of noon of Deep, slow, and 9. This stanza must But " expression of mountaineers fill the sorrow that fills the breath with and tenderness. solemn. begin with the hurry of action indicated terror, half whispering, with radical stress, Expression with passion. tone, 11. Loud and full orotund of foes ; night that pibroch thrills, shrill ! voice, and 8. ! rose Albyn'shills Lochiel,which so mountain-pipe, "Their 10. " gathering heard, and heard, t6o, have her Saxon Have 7. Tremor high the " by the words. The foe," etc. And Ardennes with Dewy years, the Over nature's Which In its neoct brave e'er Last noon Last eve green leaves, pass, \ the grass them, but above shall growthis fierymass the f6e, burning with high h6pe,shall And | her ears! grieves, | like rollingon J clansman's alas ! " be trodden verdure, when livingvalour Of inanimate beneath now each as they tear-drops, unretuming evening,to Ere them above waves Grieving,if aught ^^ thousand a Evan's,Donald's,/"me| rings in And ^ of stirring memory The daring \ that instfls the fierce native With 127 BOOK. DRILL them | beheld \ cold moulder 1^, and |full of lustylife ; proudly gay | in Beauty'scircle, j The midnight brought the signal-soundof strife, The m6rn Battle's | the marshallingin magnificentlystern thunder-clouds The earth is cover'd and the " day | ! when it,which bther thick with clay shall her 6ton Which arm^s, array close o'er The Rider - " rent, clky. heap'd and pent, cover, hdrse, friend,foe | in one " I blent. |red |burial Byron. XL THE Thus * 12. Softness 1. The the movement And PARSON. to relieve the wretched even his his I in He watch' d and duty piwupt ; tenderness | was faIlings)lean'd But of tone GOOD of wept, he expression. his pride, to virtue's at every side. ckll, prdy'd\axid feltfor 13. Firm and reverential, but marked bo calm reading-must slow, and the stress median, without force. and solemn tone by tenderness all ; to and the end. pathos; 128 DRILL I as And To a bird each fond endearment trfes, to tempt its new-fledgedoffspring H^ tried each Allured ^ art, reproved each hrighterworlds, to Beside And the b^dj where and reverend dull skies, delay, the way. partinglife was At laid, dismay'd, turns champion\stood. Despair and the led sorrow, guilt,and pain by The his control, anguish|fledthe strugglingsoul the ; Cbmfort csiXiiQ And last|faltering |accents]whisper'dpraise. ^ his At d6wn| chdrch, with Trufh\from his And fools who The service past, around CHILDREN double pious honest swky. to pray. man, rustic] ran; I follow'd with endearing wile, pluck'dhis g6wn] the to share good man's smile; ready smile]a, parent'swarmth] express'd, His Their As the grace, place; remained scoff, to came Even But unaffected lipsprevail'dwith steady z^al,each To and the venerable With And trembling wretch | to raise. meek looks]adorned His * BOOK. pleasedhim, welfare and their distress'd cares were them] his heart, his love,his griefs all his serious tall some Swells from Though Eternal thoughts]had that cliff", the round sunshine rest lifts its awful vale, and its breast midway the ]settles in given. heaven. f6rm, leaves the st6rm rollingclouds are ; spread, its h^ad. on Goldsmith. 2. Lower 3. M. and reverential tone. P. As this be read with 4. pitch, solemn simile is not more power parenthetic, and and with orotund ascends voice. in . sublimit;yof sentiment, it should DRILL XIL BARBARA On that Over marched and Forty * Up ' Bowed\ with Bravest of took show that " " " Fire ! " It rent full ten, hauled men down; set, loyaly^,t. rebel tread, hdt|left and right the out blazed the window, with his sight. ranks fiat, stood rifle-blast ; and pane and seam P., and M. tone and ridingahead. the banner with 1. Commence bne. t6wn. dust-brown the " not years glanced ; the old flag met It shivered the increase sash ; g^h. force on " " forty flags and flapp'd." 2. Firm, but right. a the came his slouched ! stIh saw he art | was Jackson Halt ; the the staft*she 6ne the street bars, Freitchie, th6n the flag| To He " the up her attic window Under and her fourscore In Up wind all in Frederick Stonewall * down, old Barbara rose She their crimson morning I looked noon t6wn, their silver stars, with the w6Xi, mountain winding d6wn, with flags Flapp'd|in Of the foot,into Frederick flags, Forty earlyfall of the over the mountains Horse * FREITCHIE. pleasantmorn Lee "When 129 BOOK. Rise in with slowness the pitch on " ag-e and the and descend on of " Freitch " 3. Military precision and sternness, tread head." than higher pitch to " " 4. " J Halt !" and " Fire !" and imitative " high, loud and slow. dignity of " " power conscious of being ie." regularityin the utterance ; give 130 DRILL Quick,as Dame * it fell from Barbara She leaned And sh6ok * But "* shade A Over The " sddness,a within like Dies a she said. ; him stirred deed and w6rd grey head 6n ! " M^rch dog ! shames ckme hair of yon a head, grey bliish of womarCs touches Who " royal will. a the face of the leader lIpe at that To sill country'sflag," nobler nature scarf; the window on must, this old your of staff, the silken with f6rth| if you spare the broken snatched far out it Sho6t, *' BOOK. : he said. J. XIII. PATRIOTIC ! while Shall die we Without Moslem The sabre victim scbrn'st th' N6 though " of age, High 6. " tremor, " " flag and on a but fervid very on Spareyour " inglorioussacrifice, hope bereft, still vengeance excited shoot. country's " and enthusiastic Pathos flag.""Why and 8. High and loud, with the sternness of command. are " on left. shook " ** shoot" " and earnestness great should warmth. Suppressed deep ski^s ! rising inflection ? 7. " sleep? burning of all earth's Life,swbrds, and 5. Tremor shades our its toil may \ from blades these die alone ? heart,where, buried Thou . wield can to of Ivan's G6d " arms tamelyf one One No our FIRE. stress,High pitch, Great passion.) orotund,Radical (^Explosive What G. have of a royal will." appeal, with falling and We'll make reeking cdves valley's our the Live\\in Till tyrants 131 BOOK. DRILL minds awe-struck m^n, their slaves shudder, when Tell of the Ghebers' of bloody glen. hearts,this pileremains brave Follow,\\ Our refugestill But his the Who sinks from " lifeand chains ; best,the holiest bed. entomb' | in d Moslem \ dead. Moore. XIV. BRUTUS great Julius not villain What - And for But so I had Than mighty space as trdsh\\ much rather such fingerswith a be may of ics world shall we base bribes, n6w\\ large honours our be and dog, a of ? stab one of all this man " sell the did shall / What foremost our March, remember. body, that his supporting robbers) Contaminaie And | touched the of ides | bleed \ for justicesake for justice? not (That stimck For March, the Remember Brutus. CASSIUS. 1 Chastisement Cassius. Did AND grasped thus the b^y ? moon Roman, Shakespeare. XV. HENRY V. (High orotund.) Fight, gentlemen of England Draw, Spur Amaze drchers,draw your proud the welkin your horses with ! fight, bold to the arrows hard, and ride your broken yeomen head : in blood ; staves. ; 132 BOOK. DRILL A are hearts\\ great thousand Advance Our Upon Victory ! them ; fair Saint sits upon ; foes our George, spleen oi fierydragons the with bosom my upon of courage word ancient Inspire us set standards, our within ! helm. our Shakespeare. XVI. defying CORIOLANUS ROMAN THE POPULACE. extend (jGreatforce,High fitch,Inflections a over ment fifth,Move- quick.) Death|| Or pull dll them Let the Be he^ls ; horses' stretch down sight; yet of beam present me ; Tarpeidn rbck. might precipitation the Below ears wild at the hills||on pileTEN That whehl, or the on mine about will I still them. thus||to Shakespeare* and Religious thought, present The the other class of rule that They poet the than must or the by finest Scriptureshave orator ; as as Scripturesdemand the works of any a alike opposedto styleof marked or in observed their reading as for own only by fixed a reading. of any great Shakespeare ; only profounder reverence authors. The the not heard be profound expressivereading. the loftiest passages Milton human tony of school readingor are It should no read we read we is Bible the composition. be read for exercises peculiar mannerism a and eloquence, poetry general styleof reading great defects,but no in Scriptures,rich The Extracts. Scripture and that solemnity hurry and mono, of pulpitdelivery peculiartones and especially all principles of good reading, 134 DRILL words, (2) by avoiding too BOOK. strong accentuation on especiallywhere syllables, (3)by frequent pauses, accented marked by uprightdash. the XVIII. TO PRAISE ANGELIC GOD. stress.) (Orotund throughout.Pitch varied, Median " Great Thy th^e 1 thunders Thy | in thy now magnified ; created but | that day th^e to \ return create | to destrhy. Mighty King, impair tJiee, can th^e, or tongue measure can giant angels; greater than Who ! infinite thought Greater the from Than What ! power Relate Is thy works, Jehovah are hound or Thy empire ? Easily the proud attempt Of spiritsapostate, and while Thou hast Thee \ to diminish,and rep^ll'd ; of number The To lessen th^e To manifest Witness Of | withdraw thee Who thy might : more thence from | createst Their seasons Earth \with Their go6d. more heaven in view hyaline,the glassysea, amplitude almost destined seeks his evil w6rld, another this new-made Numerous, Of from | againsthis purp6se ( serves | the the clear vain. impiously they thought heaven-gatenot far,founded From On counsels thy w6rshippers. usest, and Thou their and imrnense, with every star, perhaps,a world habitation ; but : her among nether stars these ocean thou | the know'st seat of m^n, circumfdsed. pleasantdwelling-place.Thrice happy m6n | DRILL And whom sStis of men, Created worship him And Over his And multiply a ; and w6rks, H61y and Their happiness | and XIX. thrice whJeat ; " is toil : here our ihy faithfail not /' this to as ours be Iis himself that think will God burn his God hath keep the promised, attend I to pray, stand that in the the keep of thy Name," our own I blessed for faith hath made him which not to overthrow to Mis all prayer vdin, who city | which theirs his themselves | therefore trade,because thee." And do the make you, the to God vain,who as not may use so sufficient |both they it a by where- means pi^dy or to not Surely | if we look to tinually, G6d, we must hourly, con- settingourselves and that and not forsake of we our safety, ever the forsake or condition p6tent. |to redding? sons Lord our that temptation% providing,and in To then faith of the meaning them into thee, think stability, use to attend not or fall not we be not lis to for indifferent for than husbandman not | as man's ; and are merchant thee tlioughtsare city,for promisesof God, concerning our matter No m6re w6ak And winnow prayed preserve will "/ have Their The the to strong and can icdtch ? plough, nor know upright/" |is so so watching carefulto not never willingto k^ep. not they safety. our oiir labour. their that think are exclude not I but " be it never adversarypower, if desired of Christ we air, or ASSURANCE. is the prayer : strengthenus, must happy, hath Satan ! to rule sea, persevere Simon, advanced worshippers CHRISTIAN "Simon, "ure in reward of race thus dwell to earth,in on jiist: hath God Image,there in his 135 BOOK. ever to strive. It was Savi6ur, in saying, Father, " should own | be be careless to keep sedulityis required. that the child of God. mother's The earth selves. our- And child,whose may shake 136 the BOOK. DBILL the world pillarsof be of the heaven moon I her beauty,the trusteth | who man unable much as in is there ; what man with keen his heart,overthrow the very sword, nor dfepth, whose preciousblood \hath of kindness, full ^7'c?|full of c4re,and change his God, the tribulation,or peril,or or nor height,nor nor far prevail so for or peril, nor principalities, ; I shed been the faithful nakedness, ever dev6ur, tribulation,nor things to c6me, believed to shall make nakedness, angels,nor | shall I have whom in know / nor life, creature other any Shall ? fdmine, nor things present,nor p6wers, nor me. d^ath, nor nor set shall neither that persuaded am persecution,nor dnguish,nor nor I ; if li^ns, beasts jleshof | that and Gdd me separationbetween my Anguish,or persecution,or famine, or N'd ; If I be of this note, who ? the light, proclaimed itself hunger, being a sw6rd1 his faith,alter his affection towards to him affection of G6d untenance co | concerning the but his head world the the lose fire have of hair singe a : may glory : if the G6d, us sun religiouslyadored it were, as their stars in to as the appalled; by nature, and ravenous have, may tremble under may am ignorant | not ; I have me full oi over pdwer: a unto ShepHim I I commit mysMf ; his own/ finger hath engraven this sentence I in the tables of my heart : Satan hath desired \to winnow I have thee I as wheat : but prayed that thy faith fail nbt." " the Therefore JEWEL the unto end; XX. (Appeal hope,I and heavens Hear, 0 spoken,"^ I have and Median ^|and nourished with gracious Hooker. pathos ; Pitch Movement give ear, mournful, M.P., slow. the a EXTRACTS. stress ; and keep \ as to keep it. shall indignation,varied ; will labour by labour, through SCRIPTURE low 1, Solemn and prdyer,I of Ris mediation of my assurance O brought 2. Pitch a and sloiv.) earth up middle : for th.fiLhrd children, and little higher, hath they speak slower. DRILL rebelled have I his ass doth against me^. master's * consider. not seed a iniquity, of The Ah knoweth ox Isrdel doth but Grib: 137 BOOK. \ children '^ \\unto yhvL,make Wash \ from doings well and now, your sins be they be let like red shall in their drink strong drink. This L.P. 4. Ascend Low, but in the to do evil ; ^ white as as as wbol. good of the be One evil of ^ the with the snmc If Wid; your learn to do fatherless* ; ' ; ye though though be wil- but ^" sicbrd, it. Isaiah very and firm to drink latter and in volume conunanding. loud. and part plaintively. louder. powerful tone. \good woe and darkness if ye for the i. in their of voice, that | that sight! own idne, and go6d evil; that ; them unto plaintive rebuke. increase and evil light for prudent pitch. the Higher stern to be passage high call bitter ; mighty are pitch and in 6. Commence 10. shall sp6ken that eyes\and own I that 8. Read be shall be devoured for sweet them 9. away oppressed,judge edt of the light\ and for and sweet 7. Rise Holy together,saith the Lbrd reason hath them I unto put ddrkness 6. the DENUNCIATION. Woe 8. the crimson, they Lord of the us XXI. for cease scarlet,they shall as and obedient,ye lingll refuse | and rebel\\ ye mouth ; eyes corrupters : | hoAikward. away put ; with the widow. plead I for Come mine gone clhan you before are judgment, relieve seek ; they anger, people my are they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked of Israel the people |laden a that " oamih'jand kn6w, not sinful nation, evildbers his men of put bitter are W6e loise | unto strength \ to 138 DRILL XXII. The A of reading BOOK. PARABLE. the followingparable should be simple, unaffected,undeclamatory,and free from peculiarintonation ; but as it is dialogue,involvinga great principleof charity,it ought to be and earnest dramatic in the impersonationof the speakers : " Matt, xviii. certain unto a And when which had not The had him would begun thousand ten of that him, and servant forgave out, and found hundred pence him and ; the of one fell down at patiencewith and went his s6rry,and into him and came : shouldst even thy fellow-servdnt can the loosed servant]went same him, and and the owed took And him him his And all. till he their thou as I had an the by vant fellow-ser- should would the pay nbt lord]all him, that said also have pity on had : debt. d6ne, they were was called he very done. was him, unto O thou compassion]on th^e 1 ARGUMENT. (Earnest but whb made. thee all. Then compassion, what saw not XXIII. What to be his besought him, saying. Have thee he had he as sold, and payment owest. prison told unto him unto servant, / forgave thee all that debt, because wicked me thou I will pay lord,after that his desirest cast on servants. worshipped him, saying, But feet, and his be to and likened forasmuch fellow- servants, which his fellow-servants I when thou But| with debt. his brought I will pay he laid hands and me, and moved was heaven] of was him and m6, throat,saying, Pay me| that Then one talents. fell down therefore servant of account children,and all that he hdd, lord So take commanded Lord, have patiencewith but kingdom reck6n, to his lord to pay, wife and is the king, which he owed Therefore " shall be not we impassioned, M. P., then againstusi say to these He| that Calm things? spared not but If not Gdd his dwn too be slow.) for Sdn, us, but deKvered Him freelygive W5 1 of charge he God! that for up all things'? It condemneth? that is risen again,who is also maketh m^rcessicm for the love of Christ ? wn'tten, For accounted are him I that nor life,nor things to shall creature\\ right hand Jesiis is in Christ are Jieightnor us| Lord. sleep,but of an and be we changed. put I that death But our 1. 2. last shall ^ For is ^ tnimp put on ^ " is death be Jesus High pitch. Deeper and more to the for : on we depth,nor from love of the Pitch O shall we ; put So not twinkling shall sound, we when this this mortal pass lip | in | where all shall irworruption, on brought to grave God varied.) trumpet is swallowed thy sting? other any viii. and i?MX)rruption, Death death, things nor powers, immortality. shall be through neither and \ incorruptible, raised put that rrumient, in the a corruptible \ must written, \ where thanks Lord this must have changed, in be day long ; conquerors, mystery a you then irmndrtality\\ on stingof The * the this mortal have O be dead shall * shall at eye, the and I show Behold, As 1 (orsw6rd) the Romans " (Movement slow. Deep orotund, XXIV. all than more separate our from us| separate persuaded nor to Grod, who slaughter. am coTne, is rather yea, of the to distress,or persecii- nor principalities, able be I killed are the For angels,nor present, nor died, TFAo shall us. things we hs. loved the at we sheepfor as that als6| Who justifieth. tribulation, or sake thy in all these Nay, which Shall that is Christ even lay anything sword or nakedness, or peril, tion,or famine, or it is God Aim with not] shall Who It is elect? 8 sliall he dll,how us 139 BOOK. DRILL is ruptible cor- shall the saying YicTORY. thj victory? | is sin, and the strengthof sin is the law. Gbd \ which giveth us the victorythrough Christ. 3. solemn. 5. 4. High and High Deep exultant. and exultant. and slow. 140 DRILL XXV. Middle reverential^ kingdom Thy And I lead | thine * this as not | is the kingdom, into void A Caution. " " against beauty to the Practise as explained a be be 6n done daily deliver pow^r, many do, it is us iis.* against and in forgive from us name. as And. trespass the thy earth,\\ bread. that but and of as in because as " words Italian style, latter the A than pressive hallowed them|| giving, the The fAmen. Hedven,\\ temptation, instead and against, pathos.) Median evU the for : gl6ry|| for Amen.t " to high, never " with our forgive we pitch varied will ddy|| us ^ver. and ever Thy us trespasses, in art come. Give Heaven. low slow, which FatherII Our prayer. and Movement stress, our lord's THE (Tone BOOK. us." The "them" broad gale. the No lirst word and A, the "us" asinca^m, good allows vocalist more emphasis " of trespass " far sings more Amen grandeur voice. class above. in reciting the whole prayer by plies im- contrasted. are is sense themselves im in and 142 DRILL 7. When the of meaning a question BOOK. is it must passage, the bearing on one be lorittertin the the spiritor language of the student. usual the marks, XXVI. The following passages words emphatic the dash by pauses in the inflections the Indicate in by marking by the and italics, : " scene It changed. was was an of eve and raw surly mood, And Sat in a high of turret-chamber to suit the seem'd That of touch The care rain, and the to Mary, listening had ancient Holyrood sighingwith stormy state blanch'd her of men's cheek " the winds uncertain her minds. smile der sad- was now. weight of royaltyhad press'dtoo heavy The traitors to her councils came, And The sceptre well Stuart all her thought of brief " Rizzio in she The songs perchancethat They won her hark They come could swords words of youth's erst years were from " the sung songs Navarre, by gallantChatelar they soothed bigot of gay zeal and her into fierce play ; smiles, domestic : " tramp they eye And she the minstrel bade lute,and of her cares, thoughts ! the " his early beguiledher broils But loved with songs half sword the dreams blighted hopes The They the day. summoned And ; to the field ; rebels sway'd, but brow wield. not She she and her on of armed come! " and men ! the ! Douglas' battle-cry lo ! the scowl of Ruthven's low hol- and and ! are are drawn, and vain " daggers gleam, tears DRILL The Then " steel is in his heart ruffian father's for my Now the Indicate the !" arm she that tears said ; tricklingfell : woman's " my the words XXVII. Art thou tie iy grouping, in related that first broke after him in italics in in proud the third the following : " thou art traitor-angel, peace ; and Unbroken heart, BeU, emphatic passages, Drew aside faithful Rizzio's slain ! the " !" farewell Who dash'd Stuart Mary 143 BOOK. Heaven, faith tillthen and rebellious he arms part of Heaven's sons. Conjured againstthe Highest"? for Say, first, XXVIII, the Nor deep tract Heaven hides nothing from thy view. of hell. Me, though just rightand the fixed laws of Heaven XXIX first create Did far at least Thus leader ; yet this your recover'd,has much loss, more Established. Note. " In the voice. When leading group the next common 25, 26. more may relation in passages than be a similar leading group marked group a words of in in is shown by and tone pitch is to be capitalsor and italics, the livering deof indicated,the small lowest capitals, group in letters. XXX. Mark related subordinate Selections Mark grouping, the THE the the " Goldsmith's from VILLAGE pauses Village." PREACHER. inflections of italicized rhetorical Deserted in words. lines 2, 5, 6. 7, 11, 12, 24, 144 BOOK. DEILL Mark the emphatic words 15, 17, 18, 19, 22, 24, 26, the In and of the sentences, (2) the from the would subjectand succeed tions. inflec- proper distinguish, (1) from members modifying their you principalsentence feelingshould should feeling 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, give them first four lines how modulations What in lines the of the the subordinate tence principalsen- predicate1 lines 9 and predominate in 10, and what in the lines that follow to the end of line 141 In what spiritshould introduced How to into the should realize the 1. Near 3. lines 21 and 5. A yonder he man 7. Remote By a many few other bent 12. More house His The 16 Whose 1 he fawn, fashion'd to raise the was known the place disclose, mansion his rose. a year ; godly race, wish'd to change, his place; seek for power, to the his heart wild, country dear, ran or garden smiled, garden-flower grows fortypounds changed, nor aims chid their 15. towns he to doctrines with the once shrubs torn to all the was e'er had 11. Far 14. He a from 9. Unskilful 13. copse, where passingrich 8. Nor delivered be characters and read, so distinguished preacher'smodest village 6. And 10. 22 be describingthe pictures1 There, where 4. The lines succeedinglines still where 2. And the had varying hour learn'd to wretched to all the wanderings,but than beard, descending,swept prize, to rise. vagrant relieved long-remember'dbeggar was : train their " pain his guest, his aged breast ; ; as 17. The 18. ruin'd 19. The now speTidthrifif kindred Claim'd Sat 21. Wept 22. Shoulder'd o*er his and And 26. Careless 26. His talk'd the their merits pity gave XXXL done, sorrow good how fields man leam'd woe were won. glow. to ; their faults to scan, or charitybegan. ere END LATTER THE stay, vices in their quite forgottheir ', night away, guests, the his to show'd crutch,and allow'd claims or, tales of wounds, his with 24. his had there,and by his^e, 2i". Pleased longer proud, no soldier,kindly bid broken 20. 145 BOOK. DRILL A OF VIRTUOUS Mark the inflections of the italicized Mark the rhetorical in lines pauses LIFE. words. 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16. What passages in the read blest is he, the and line 1. O 4. A 5. Who 6. And 7. For previous line in words from of labour quitsa world since 'tishard him Explore no the the How and clause in line succeedingpart lines of 1, 6, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, inflections. that care blest is he who youth " i. e., ^ retirement,firiend Retreats 3. How the their proper blest grouped, similarlywith modulation distinguishby emphatic the otherwise be can 3 ] you give them 8. pitch it modifies same 2. succeedinglines that in which Mark and " would How 6 from same in the to life's decliiie, in shades crowns with an where to be must never age of ease like these, ; strong temptationstry, combat, learns wretches,born mine, to mine, or tempt work the to and fly ! weep, dangerous deep ; 14:6 DRILL 9. 'No 10. To 12. Angels 13. Sinks 14. While 15. And 16. His lie on guiltystate, imploring famine spurn But in stands surly porter 11. BOOK. around to the the his latter to meet moves from befriendingvii'tue's with grave end, friend : unperceived decay, resignationgently slopesthe all his gate, w"^y ; to the last, piospects brightening heaven commences XXXII. the world ere INVOCATION TO past. POETRY. Mark the inflections of italicized words. Mark the rhetorical in lines pauses be 2,3,9, 13, 17, 18, 19, 21, 23, 24. feelingshould What should lines,and how of previousmembers the line,be grouped,and from the interveningclauses in 16th " Though " very would How should it be Give which poor you an be instead it be strengthpossest with be of the violating " of native possession ; and could " the line,without how line 19th In the states " the distinguished ? pronounce you ten "Farewell, and O !" in the shall the group " would "inclement, " how reading the first from distinguished 1 clauses must 11th How apodosis be the invocation lines and which With in predominate sKown of th' " metre in does not members " before 1 reading that designatesimple the sentence must and Why grouped ? deliver the similes in lines 22 exceptionto the rule for 24 1 deliveringsimiles ? the rule. Mark the emphatic words in lines 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, and give them 1, 3, 4, 8, 10, 15, 16, 17, their proper inflections. 1. And 3. Unfit joys invade, of shame, heart,or strike for honest catch the 4. To sensual degenerate times in these maid, , flywhere 2. Still first to loveliest thou Poetry then, sweet 147 BOOK. DRILL fame ; 5. Dear, charming nymph, neglectedand decried, 6. My shame 7. Thou crowds, in 8. That found'st 9. Thou guide by 10. Thou 11. Farewell, and 12. On Tomo's at poor arts voice he thy Pambamarca's diffs,or the polar world in snow, time, 16. Redress the 17. Aid 18. Teach erring man 21. That 22. As 23. While 24. As very trade's oceans with may self-dependent power resist the billows XXXIII. litest; away time the decay, ; dejy, sky, LUXURY. Mark the inflections on Mark the rhetorical Group by and gain ; to swift mole can ; strengthpossest, still be very labour'd the of rage proud empire hastes sweep rocks the of native states ; thy persuasivestrain to spurn pom-, clime th' inclement rigorsof slightedTruth Though tried, " thy voice,prevailingover 20. ! side, Still let that ; fervours glow, equinoctial wraps him so excel, virtue,fare thee well 15. 19. Teach woe, first,and kept'stme where'er 0! all my the nobler which where winter 14. Or me of every nurse 13. Whether bliss and of all my source solitarypride. my modulation italicized words. pauses the in lines 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10. leading words of lines 5 and 6. 148 BOOK. DBILL and inflection the maik 1. O capitals| in small feeling in of appropriateto thou luxury ! cursed exchanged 3. How do thy potionswith of 6. Boast every 8. A bloated decree, thee ! joy destroy ! vigour not draught of mass down they XXXIV. the 8th and State 7th What and word Give your takes the the where every spread a ; part unsound, ruin round. BOZZARIS. what inflection must be given to the reasons. leadingemphasis in the 4th, 6th, 7th, rhetorical in occur pauses the 2nd, 4th lines. lines % 4th Give midnight, in The Turk 6. The your his tremble at dreams, through trophiesof a modulations the reasons. guarded tent, dreaming was in made Greece, her knee Should 5. In be should variation 3. When 4. and woe grow, 9th lines % 1. At 2. sink ; largethey rank, unwieldy followingstanza, 1 own largeand more MARCO italic words What their sapp'd their strength and Down, 10. florid a 7. At 9. Till 3rd and emphasis of feeling. the to italics, 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 10, insidious thy pleasures only in sense Kingdoms by thee, to sicklygreatness grown, 6. In of thingslike these,for ill are lines by Heaven's 2. How 4. Diffuse and | the emphasis emphatic words the Mark in of the suppliancehent, his power coast and conqueror; hour ; camp, he bore of the 160 DRILL BOOK. Antony. Friends,Romans, countrymen, lend " 2. I 3. The 4. bury Caesar,not to come evil that The 5. So let it be with 6. Hath told Caesar you were 8. And grievouslyhath so, it Here, under 10. (For 11. So 12. Come 13. He 14. But 15. And 16. He 17. Whose was is an was Brutus honourable man honourable is brought this in Caesar should made Ambition 21. Yet 22. And 23. You 24. I thrice 25. Which 26. Yet 27. And, 28. I 29. But Brutus says is Brutus and be he all did see, that of the on presented him a says he sure, speak here not I to am is he an was Rome, fill : hath wept stuff ! t man. Lupercal kingly crown, Was ambitious honourable disprovewhat to to ? sterner he did thrice refuse. Brutus : : cried,Caesar ambitious was me man. honourable an just to ambitious seem have 20. funeral. general coffers the that the poor When ; captiveshome many did ransoms it. men,) honourable an ; the rest, ambitious was ; ; Caesar answer'd and he says Brutus 19. ; Brutus grievous fault friend,faithful my hath ambitious in Caesar's speak noble of Brutus they all,all I to The was a leave Brutus are 18. Did " Caesar. 7. If it 9. them is oft interr'd -with their bones good your praise him. to do lives after men me speak what this ambition : man. Brutus spoke, I do know. ? : ears ; DRILL 30. You all did love him 31. What 32. O 33. And 34. 36. If you 37. You there have he the 40. That day 41. Look ! in this 42. See 43. Through 44. And, 45. Mark 46. As 47. If Brutus 48. For 49. Judge, O ye 50. This the 51. For, when 52. Ingratitude,more 53. Quite vanquish'dhim 54. And, in his mantle 55. Even at the base ! what 58. Then 59. While gods,how I, and be you, ; angel: loved him I : stab, burst his his mighty heart face, Pompey's statue, ran and bloody treason it, traitors* arms, blood, great Caesar fell. there, my was no him saw then stabb'd; of all cut mufflingup while fall : : resolved dearly Caesar strong than of made Caesar's was Caesar the noble a dagger through: followed unkindest most tent, steel away, of Caesar know, you now. " Brutus doors, to me. ; well-beloved of as all the Oh, what Nervii cursed ; ; his unkindly knock'd, or so Brutus, was on Casca blood the how to the envious pluck'dhis rushing out 56. Which 57. this the it Cassius' place ran rent a he as overcame me Caesar, them evening,in summer's a on with I remember : put all of ] beasts, with to shed Caesar ever for him mourn back this mantle know ccmse; Bear come tears,prepare first time 'Twas till it pause to fled to brutish art is in the coffin all do 38. The then you reason. I must without not " lost their have men 35. And 39. thou judgment, Atljheart once withholds cause 151 BOOK. countrymen us flouiish'd fell down, over us. i ; ' 162 DRILL Oh 60 ! now 61. The you dint of 62. Kind 63. Our 64. Here and, ; these pity : Caesar's is when himself,marr'd as Look 'i FROM here, you by traitors. see, you behold but you " MACBETH. followingspeech explain the prevailingsentiment Macbeth's in mind. the inflections Mark graciousdrops. wounded vesture feel perceive,you you, SELECTIONS the I are souls,what, weep XXXVI. In weep BOOK. the of words, italicized and give your reasons. Point lines the out words in requiring emphasis 3, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 27, and : the following the proper mark inflections. the 21st From the line to the word of words group stronger emphasis from " Supposing the quickly should " " first line be take change would and quickly," those how would in the 25th that take which are subordinate. to finish were dependent place " wind " in on the higher pitch a the words the " at that affect the and a " well, and follow,what of inflections change tinguish line,dis- " "well meaning and of the i1* Suppose after the this " sense the " and 2. It This was were th" requirein If it done reading were effect the would the line 16, transfer were make put in reading1 done quickly: of Mr. 7, 9, 14, 15, 19. "besides," in after comma instead,what 1. Macbeth. "^ in lines the rhetorical pauses Mark when if the 'tis donSf then assassination MacreadfJs the celebrated tragedian. 'twere well trammel 3. Could his 4. With inventor plague the 11. Commends 12. To 13. First,as I 14. Strong both againstthe deed should againsthis murderer 15. Who knife Not 17. Hath 18. So 19. Will 20. The 21. And 22. Stridingthe blast,or 23. Upon 24. Shall blow the horrid 25. That shall drown 26. To 27. Vaulting ambition, 28. And Mark clear in his ; his trust; subject, then, as shut his host, the door, so meek, hath Duncan been that his virtues great office, deep pity,like the tears falls of his damnation a heaven's couriers sightless on word taking-off ; new-bom naked deed babe, cherubim, horsed of the in every the wind. sides of my which air, eye, I have no spur intent,but only itself o'erleaps the other. the inflections of all reasons in double and /z^^^tc^ plead like angelstrumpet-tongued against prick the Which Give his faculties borne teach but myself. Besides, this 16. cases poison'dchalice our 's here He his kinsman am the bear : ingredientsof lips. own we this even-handed To our timey being taught return 10. the of in these ; that here Bloody instntctions,which 9. But come. this blow here, shoal and judgment still have 8. We life to the We'ldywmp 7. that but the end-all this bank here, upon 6. But ; the be-all and be Might 5. success catch and the consequence, up surcease 153 BOOK. DRILL takes for your the important words. leading emphasis selection. in the 2nd line % 154 DRILL BOOK. Select the emphatic words in each What prevailingfeelingin the mind of Macbeth of voice should be words, and what qualities of the succeedinglines. is the he as cised exerspeaksthese in delivering the whole, and especially the emphatic words of this passage Collier puts "grief" not as" ? " so grief"for stuff" in expressiveof the state " the 10th of Lady line. is Why Macbeth's mind stuff" 1 How 1. Macbeth. does your Not 2. Doctor. so sick,my she is troubled 3. As 4. That with her from keep doctor patient, lord, thick coming Cure thou 7. Pluck from out 9. And with written rooted a weighs upon ABDIEL the inflections troubles sorrow, brain, antidote, of that the heart diseased, of the perilousstuff % SATAN. REBUKING of her of that. mind a sweet, oblivious some XXXVII. Mark to the stuff 'd bosom Cleanse 11. Which minister the memory the 8. Raze 10. not fancies rest! her 5. Macbeth. 6. Canst ? the italicized words, and give your reasons. Mark the character emphatic words of Abdiel voice,stress style, How will you part of the Mark on is described and lines 8, 19, 21, 33, 39. in the last twelve pitchshould the passage distinguishthe speech of last twelve the rhetorical pauses As lines,in what be delivered Abdiel the from the ? rative nar- lines'? in lines 9, 10, 13, 14, 18, 19. in suggests that instead of Rush Dr. " unterrified " comma after would this make the will have a be should in the sense, words What should line, there 21st the 155 BOOK. DRILL full a be and after comma faithless," stop, and semicolon a " requirein : the change reading? inflection in line 17 ? same 1. " O alienate of all 2. Forsaken 3. Determined, 4. In 5. Both good of 8. Will be not 12. Thy ; those are iron rod an for not thy wicked Well advice Impendent raging into 16. Distinguishnot y who 18. Then who 19. When 20. So on ; for can the r^ect break didst advise; I threats fly soon sudden wraths flame, feel to expect fire. thy head, devouring thee lamenting uncreate thee thou created spake recall ; cZevoteo?; lest the 15. thunder decrees didst and thou or These tents thou to bruise 14. His other forth without gone disobedience. \'6. Yet 17 indulgent laws golden sceptre which now ; henceforth quit the yoke to vouchsafed; now thee Against Is involved punishment how be troubled Messiah 11. and crime thy more 10. That fall thy see thy hapless crew and 7. Of God's 9. ! I fraud, contagion spread perfidious this 6. No Ood^ O spirit oLccursed, from seraph Abdiel, learn. shalt know." faithful found faithful only he; faithless, 21. Among the 22. Among innumerable 23. Unshakeny unseduced, unterrified false,unmoved, j the what reason. your that Give 156 DRILL 24. His loyaltyhe hept,his love,his 25. Nor number 26. To 27. Though simple. 28. Long 29. Superior,nor 30. And, with 31. On from swerve those 33. The better Against 35. Of 36. And revolted for the 37. Universal To 40. Judged 238 in par. It is now France, lightedon thee ; he turn'd doom'd. loyalty. truth maintain'd cause in arms ; hast borne to worse fought all bear thy care, worlds Milton. perverse, rhythm AND in the METRE. followingpassage, accordingto rules :" sixteen then this like glittering Oh, what or the seventeen I saw elevated the a years dauphiness,at orb, which cheeringthe joy. sustain'd well hast thou the was he approv'din sightof God, though vision. delightful and pass'd, mightier than they RHYTHM the ; multitudes testimonyof XXXVIII. Mark forth he destruction single hast reproach,far stand his back abdiel's op w(yrd mim?, aught to swift violence ; for this 39. feared God, well done truth, in 38. Than towers who fight, constant which scorn, scorn, approval wrought ainidst them of violence proud of 34. From retorted him change his or throughhostile way, 32. Servant 1/ruth zeal ; with example nor god's of BOOK. she her since I Versailles hardly seemed just above the ; and to revolution ! and of what and life, a Queen surelynever touch, a more horizon,decorating sphere she justbegan morning star, full the saw heart to move in " splendour,and must I have to 158 DRILL Full many The a Full many And of purest ray gem dark BOOK. unfathomed flower a of caves is born bear ; ocean to blush its sweetness waste serene, unseen, the desert on air. Gray. Wizard. Lochiel " For dark and But man cannot coming of life events With the Behold, where in darkness Now, Bise he ! Bise ! ye 'Tis finish'd ! Culloden is their dread bloodhounds by God gives me cast thee, Culloden's ! anointed sightI what cover I tell Lo ! beware despairingmy 'Tis the sunset And ! Lochiel with flies on his wild Their lost,and reveal; shadows before. shall for desolate thunders wrath, path ! from sweeps tempests, and his cover hu^h'd are ring thy fugitiveking. vials of billows,he and 1 mysticallore, bark Heaven day seal, may would echoes that of the flight! the on sight; my moors ; country deplores. my Gam'pbell. ELEGY The WRITTEN of qualities voice orotundf with occasional prevails; sorrow of medium the poem not measure, is so long pauses IN A read required to where tremor the median the in are poem nor a too Tnovemsnt slow. tolls the c^l/r/ew\ efiect. The knell of As character, frequent but 1. The the tenderness, pathos, or fast too decidedlymeditative to this swellingstress,and o r i. e., neither will add CHURCHYARD. COUNTRY parting day, lowing herd|winds slowlyo'er the 1^, plods his ploughman I homeward The the leaves And L. P. 159 BOOK. DRILL w6rld| to darkness way, weary to mh. cmd 2. | on Ithe glimmeringlandscape fades Now all the And beetle the Save] where stillness solemn air|a h61ds, droning flight, the distant folds luU drowsy tinkllngs| And his | icheeU sight, the : 3. I that, from yonder ivy-mantledt6wer, Save moping owl| does The Of such as, Molest wandering to the her near complain moon bow^r, secret solitaryreign. ancient] her 4. those Beneath I in The turf\in heaves the Where Each rugged 61ms, that yew-tree'sshdde. his rude cell for narrow movldering h^ap. a many laid. ever of the hamlet\slehp. forefathers 5. breezy call The The of m6m. incense-breathing swallow]twitteringfrom the cock's shrill clari6n,or The No more] shall rouse them the straw-built shM, echoingh6m, from their lowly b^d. 6. th6m| no For Or No more the blazinghearth ply her evening busy hotisewife\ run children] Or climb his to lisptheir knees]the sire's envied shall care hwm^ ; retiim. kiss to shkre. 160 DRILL BOOK. 7. Oft I did the Their How furrow oft|the jocund\did they How their sickles harvest]to how'd the stubborn yi^ld, glebe has drive their team woods | beneath br6ke : ! a-Jield their slAirdystroke ! 8. Let not Thefr Nor I moc^ Ambition and homely ^'dy*, short and useful t6i\ destinyohscure hear, with Grandeur The their disdainful a of simple am/nals] the ; smile^ 'poor. 9. hoast of heraldry, The all that And the pom'p all that beauty of pbwer, wealth e'er gave, ^ Await L. P. I the alike paths of gl6ry\lead The hour inevitable " but to the grave. 10. M. P. Nor you, ye If memory L. P. ! proud I o'er impiiteto their th6se the t6mb| no trophiesraise, Where, through the long-drawn aisles The pealing anthem\ swells 11. Can storied Back Can Ov iirn,or animated to its honour^ s mansion] call voice | provoke sSothe flattery] the fault, the note and fretted of praise. " bust, the the breath fleeting silent dull|cold ear ? dust, of death? vault, DRILL 161 BOOK. 12. H. P. Perhaps I in this neglected spot|is Idid heart\once Some Or rod the HaTids]that waked to with pregnant of celestial empire\might fire ; have sway'd, the living lyre. ecstdsyl 13. M. P. KnowUdge] to But Rich\ with L. P. the 6yes|her ample their spoilsof time |did their repressed Chill penury noble page, n^'er unrbU ; rage, the genialcurrent | oith.Q And/rd"2;e| shut. 14. M. P. Full a many its sweetness wa^te serene of caves a,JlbwW is born Full many And purest ray I unfathom'd dark The of gem ocedn\ b^ar to hlush on j unseen, the desert air, 15. dauntless little tyrant of his fields | withstood The Some with that villageHkmpden, Some I ingloriousMilton]h^re mute Some his Cromw611, guiltlessof may breast ; rest; country'sblood. 16. Th' applause of list'ning senates]to command, The To threats scatter And of pain and plenty o'er read their a ruin|to despise, smiling Iknd, history( in a nation's eyes, 17. Their 16t|forbade Their : nor circumscrib'd growing virtues,but their alone] confined crime8\ ; 162 DRILL BOOK. to I to wadej through slaughter] Forbade gates of mercy shut the And thrbne, a mankind \ on ; 18. of conscious strugglingpangs The To shrine the heap Or the blushes of quench of ingenuous shame hide: ; luxiiryand pride, kindled | at incense] With fruth\to the muse's flame. 19. the I from Far | never They kept the noiseless ignbblestrife, learn'd vale cool]sequester'd the Along wishes sober Their crowd's madding to stray, of life their of t6nor| way. 20. Yet these bones even frail Some memoridl\still erected uncouth With insult to from and rhymes protect, nigh, shapelesssculpture| d6ck'd, Implores the passing tribute of sigh. a 21. Their placeof The And their years, name, a many teach That fame and spell'd by th' unlettered elegy| supply ; around] she strews, holy text] the rustic to moralist] die. 22. For who] to a pr^y, forgetfulness anxious pleasing] This Left the Nor dumb warm being]e'er resigned, precinctsof the cheerful longing]lingeringlook cast]OTie\ day, behind? miise, 163 BOOK. DRILL 23. On breast fond some | the partingsoul reliegf pioTisdrops| the closingeye Some from Even in Even requires cries, of nature the tbmb\ the voice our ashesllive their wonted ; fires. 24. For Dost If these I in tale artless lines]their d^ad. unhonor'd of the who, mindful tJiSej relate, chance, by lonely contemplationled, shall inquire thy fate, spirit] kindred Some " 26. hoary-headed swain Haply Isome " Oft have Brushing To with the meet at the him, seen we hasty steps the say, of peep dews dawn. away. upland the sim|upon may lawn. 26. That His its old fantastic wreathes listless And yonder nodding b^ech. the foot of I at "There pore upon stretch. babbles | that brook the high, so he would noontide length| at roots by. 27. " Hard by yon w6od, smiling now as Mutteringhis wayward fancies,he Now Or drooping,w6ful, crazed with like wan, cdre,or cross'd one in in sc6m. would r6ve ; forl6rn, hopeless16ve. 28. " One I miss'd mom Along the heath, him Pud on near the accustom'd his favorite hill, tree; 164 DRILL Another Nor came up the yet beside the rill, nor ; BOOK. lawn, at the nor w6od M was : 29. '* \ next, with The Slow the through Approach, and Graved dirgesdue, church-way path we read | beneath THE rests his head Here A Large his was He j^ gave a mis'ry all to farther seek No aged thorn." him and he his soul sincere, a tear ('twasall to own. largelysend had, his merits ; birth, for her as heav'n unknown : ; he friend. wish'd) a disclose. their dread abode ; (There they, alike,in trembling hope repose,) The bosom 1st Stanza. made sitive to and tolls of the inflection higherthan preceding the 4th " curfew." J^h Stanza. " the Why Give and READING an How 1st would his God. OF eminent intransitive an THE ELEGY. reader verb, and " this affect the the 4th the 18th knell" an tury, cen- appo- emphasis,pause the 2nd line of this stanza lines ; and which grouped in pitch and reasons. (Par.198.) be of line? should 3rd and lines must line % THE Henderson, " " " of his Father ON QUESTIONS : lap of earth, his humble on his frailties from draw Or borne r6ad) the lay yon to fame recompense gain'dfrom He not bounty, did Heav'n and mark'd Melancholy And the upon frown'd Science Fair him saw EPITAPH. to fortune youth cknst (forthou the stone on in sad array. be read of the three movement with 166 BOOK. DRILL Stanza. 21st have should Why " prominence, most " and how years,"and '' name," that is supply" " prominence given? (Par, 191.) 24th does 25th and "For thee" relation 1 the Which marked the by the between the shall What clauses of (This is the a and 204, will prepare for rules a the sentences, paragraphs noun the student to answer questions.) mark and Name the pitch and What emphatic words and movement, the of reading the mark the guided by reading of principal,subordinate these of the those and 25th the made be important distinction,and very sentence, 198, 199, and should distinction the distinction the shall which and principalpassages stanza to show be made the voice how 25th in the passage stanzas, and voice 1 analysisof correct how are subordinate stanza? 24th what To " refer,and in the two subordinate be Stanzas. 29th in stanza generallywhat stanza Mark ? 28. should spirit, rhetorical its pauses. Mark three the inflections and of stanzas How its relation and appositive, by qualityof Correct voice and Where Each The line,and especially The bosom, to " in the the word third line be second " the be made it is the of which from distinguished : those heaves in his and inflection,pause give reasons in italics Beneath of emphatic words the others 1 of errors passages, are the and Epitaph. shall the last to show words the pauses emphasis in for the alteration. The the following emphatic " rugged elms, that yew-tree'sshade, the turf in many narroiv rtide forefathers cell for ever mouldering heap, a laid, of the hamlet sl^ep. For them no the more ply her eveningcare No children lisptheir sire's return Or climh\his 11. to run knees prevention of this kind Rule I.,par. 172, predicate when is That exception is the last. example When as instances the he final word should exception be or cautious in pitch, in " then i. e. to descend grammatical the when sentence following example, clause reader no the form. inverted excepting in such may but all in descent in syllable an such pitch on " mand " " inflection,as in to , in the shall be command, the every " questions According marked, as however, of experience, however, out, the there ' a of clauses inflections tbat series in the as is carried syllable. Thus slightlyrise when, the in and taste independent following give must Good falling inflection give a to this the this rule to is proper, modifications governing verb, risinginflection. question beginning It falling inflection. a and the separate and several are with extensions exception an there a Exceptions. similarity,that end ; to sliare. risinginflection. a they precede inverted,take allow the | kiss bum, : III.,par. 172, every of monotonous last may the envied Occasional with end should the to Rule According " verb a shall busy housewife Stanza for the blazinghearth Or Inflections. with 167 BOOK. DRILL if it were printed c6m^^^^ In the same last word of the dependent so preceding As such of plenty scatter read pain their the o'er a as "is the "eyes risinginflection. the ruin to But to command. despise. smiling land. a nation's eyes, lot forbkde. the as and history in logicalsubject of long the a sentence inflections that end risinginflection is has each several members, member when subject may or the last given to or one be immediately subject. exceptions are reader,they clauses it takes threats compound, varied "land." and The Their it is " applause of listening senates And the despise The To When ** read way must not be purely optional and regarded as left to strict rules. the taste of the Examination Questions. SECTION 1. What voice 2. What How 4. Where 6. Name body engaged are in the of production ? is the act 3. of the organs I. them upon they are is the the the of structure lungs, and how does the air 'i with connected air 1 external 1 larynx various the / throat parts of the engaged in producing voice. 6. Explain the action and nature of the diaphragm in ducing pro- voice. SECTION 7. Describe 8. the Explain the explosive active and methods and 9. 10. Define abrupt Explain the method Describe, in 12. Give and of if III. CHAPTER tones. managing the possible delineate, sounding ah, a breathing. vocal organs for ducing pro- tones. pure 11. impure chest. executing deep, effusive, expulsive, II. and pure passive of SECTION II. list of the awe, vowel o, oo, sounds. a, ee. the forms of the mouth does 13. What names 14. Name the 15. What defects Rush Dr. and observed are and give them, vowels compound 169 BOOK. DRILL in give why? their sounding ^ constituents. in finefand a as in male 16. of corrupt sound What in house ou is given,and how rected cor- 1 ^ 18. corruptionof is the 17. What behold, "c. Explain words as ability ity char- y % method the i in such of practicefor sounding the vowels. {Chapter T.) the method 19. Explain 20. Explain and give a or 21. Select What 23. What explosivepractice. table of vowels accordingto their length quantity. a passage and in the number 22. of is meant mark table vowels according to their (p. 22). by articulation and liquids, are off the what ? (Ohap. VI.) do power they possess in speech1 24. Describe 25. Name the processes all the atonies or JB. Name their 27. the labials^and Name for securingcomplete articulation. a^^pirants. correspondingsub-tonics explain the or action sub- vocals. of mouth the in utteringthem. 28. Name and Nasal 29. describe the action sounds, Aspirates and Explain how to correct the errors of Dentals, Palate sownds, Linguals. in connection with h. 170 DRILL BOOK. SECTION 30. What is modulation 31. What is meant .32. Explain 33. Write the out Draw 35. Explain the a of method What is meant 38. Name the 39. Describe show describe and practice, how of Inflection (1) body. for it may and be used. its difference and practisinginflections, by Quality of essentials of the : voice from explain the practice. 37. viz. for practice. method scale a discrete f piano. a scale and concrete (Chap. II.) Pitch. Draw of of gamut ladder, and 34. 36. board musical a method the ? the terms by key IIL a conditions Method of (3) Position Voice ? voice. pure for practice on qualityof voice, breathing. (2) Carriage of of and form of the mouth the and its organs. 40. vowel What How must we Describe 42. Describe 43. What 44. Define stress. 45. What effect the the best has corrected for and practice, whyl voice. preparatory exercises compositionis be are practise1 the orotund 41. to sounds the orotund violent 1 force on for best the acquiringit, adapted for throat,and % ? how is it DRILL 46. Name 47. Define 48. State leadingforms the three kinds compositions to of is most of stress forms of stress. of them. each the 171 BOOK. which of each these appropriate . 49. What stress Psalms lightand For 1 hatred of strong 60. the Name appropriatefor is most of 51. Explain grammaticaland 62. What rhetorical 63 54. Select 55. What is Define 57. What 58. Give 69. What mark to rhetorical pauses 56. sions expres- state what positions com- pauses. the determine place for the ? pause caution stress,and rhetorical of the sentence sentence, and a For compositions? the IV. parts of speech requirea Wliat and suit. best SECTION divisions Lost ? forms derivative they gay Paradise be before pause off the observed them 1 pauses. in attending to the 1 Inflection. is the difference the between pitch and inflection ] general principlesfor rising and inflection to an tions. fallinginflec- introductorydependent clause or phrase? 60. What and 61. What inflection for the nominative of address, for appeals exclamations'? inflection to negative sentences ? 172 BOOK. DRILL 62. What exceptionto 63. What class of questions takes fallinginflection 64. What is the 65. When have this rule i a and rising, what class a 1 rule for 1 inflecting appositives dependent phrases and clauses a failing inflection 1 66. "7hat 67. In a series of What 69. Define 70. When 71. What 72. Select any 73. Define 75. When 76. How circumflex are is the inflections " the inflections 1 are forms or ? and appropriate? it with mark high, low, appropriate] when and monotone, passage, Fitch and middle all the " and proper tions. inflec- distinguishit In/lection. do are which qualifyingwords the 78. In complex sentences, what what and pitch to subordinate requiregreater prominence 1 clauses delivered? predicate? pitch is given the subordinate sentence principalsentence, are parts receive the higher pitch? explanatoryphrases and pitchis given to 77. What 80. How what ? Inflections. simple sentences, 79. What inflections falling independent clauses Circumflex from In take sentences is the rule for antithetical clauses 68. 74. of forms and takes why clauses parenthetical to the piincipal, clause 1 the same ? rendered 1 pitch as the 174 98. DRILL Select a emphatic 99. Define 100. What 101. Select 102. Define and passage BOOK. italicize the parts requiring tie. Transition. is a the passage Imitative general and rule for explain Modulation^ transition the with 'I necessary examples. transition. the ENGLISH GRAMMAR C. P. MASON, BY Fellow With Univeksitt op Examination Upwards in of three years send to country sent immediately He A. P. KNIGHT, Incomparably that high schools J. KING. chapter the the work Canadian the in rank of England and the I have * being to study It is an teachers classes its best has doubt itself doubtful such it the and high a works^the witli meet fore be- points pive to school edition twenty-fii-st a sufficient Toronto. fail of judges reached The hitherto School of pecially es- Enghsh. is of cannot it will class-book in grammar discussion S. H. valuable most our public. Caledonia, Dufferin M., the SHAW, to H. iu high same preciation ap- the S., Omemee. M., H. just such into introduced see a book Avithout as teachers many scliools, our by explanation, rules stereotyped subject and excellent and reliable advanced its method definition and thereby making abim- the P. work. It S. I., BeUevUle that grammars Col. Cobourg Institute. will be and. South weU received by pupils. JOHNSTON, all the a., H.M., B. C.MacHENRY, JOHN Of a of classes Canadian attractive. even D. there. Province. illustrations dant the advanced Mason'sGrammaris teach nspectox hed Institute. senior the to definitions It no hoping been have fotmd H. of JOHN * CoUegiate Principal, of country. in this "" be and estimation teachers publi for offered treatise methods excellent been LEWIS, philosophical Asa school grammar of difficidt sentences Analysis far beyond English any pubhc. RICHARD its grammar Kingston book text M.A., L.L.D., the on place H.M., yet wiU gi-ammar instruction for the Mason's to best has a best Mtison. me M.A., the the me S., OakviUe M., H. 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We have be text at last an elementary may teacher entrusted into hands without the of the most iuexperienced fear of its being abused. anj JOHN from of some reach of most in all the fashion. same with teach task to make it esteem of * * so With this in teacher every in work. Our junior classes and best within in position com- book for do most ex- after the well as without do can and this with it. little For book in market. aid East the Bruce, latiguage agreeable use my to influence if Walkerton. will teacher district, and, my the orally, can branch, important the 1 will best teachers best Inspector of am from Picton. to oldest its Aaluable the study highly that far placed the little inexperienced S, CLENDENING, W. * this the Lessons" as "'Language pupils just entering upon question has no superior by and heard exercises S. 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