So by long living on a single lie,

Nay, on one truth, will creatures get its dye;

Red, yellow, green, they take their subject's hueExcept when squabbling turns them black and blue! 3. I have sinuous shells of pearly hue

Within, and they that luster have imbibed

In the sun's palace-pōrch, where, when unyoked,
His chariot-wheel stands midway in the wave:
Shake one and it awakens, then apply

Its polished lips to your attentive ear,
And it remembers its august abodes,

And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.

4 Warriors and statesmen have their meed of praise, And what they do, or suffer, men record;

But the long sacrifice of woman's days

Passes without a thought, without a word;
And
many a lofty struggle for the sake

Of duties sternly, faithfully fulfilled—

For which the anxious mind must watch and wake,
And the strong feelings of the heart be stilled—
Goes by unheeded as the summer wind,

And leaves no memory and no trace behind!

Yet it may be, more lofty coŭrage dwells

In one meek heart which braves an adverse fate,

Than his whose ardent soul indignant swells,

Warmed by the fight, or cheered through high debate. The soldier dies surrounded: could he live,

Alone to suffer, and alone to strive?

4. Slow Rate is used to express grandeur, vastness, pathos, solemnity, adoration, horror, and consterna

tion; as,

1. 0 thou Eternal One! whose presence bright
All space doth occupy, all motion guide;
Unchanged through time's all-dev'astating flight;
Thou only God! There is no God beside!

2. The curfew tōlls the knell of parting day;

The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea;

3.

The plowman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean-roll!
Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain:
Man marks the earth with ruin-his control
Stops with the shōre;-upon the watery plain
The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain
A shadow of man's ravage, save his own,

When, for a moment, like a drop of rain,
He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan,
Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown.

V. MONOTONE.

ONOTONE consists of a degree of sameness of sound, or tone, in a number of successive words or syllables.

2. A perfect Sameness is rarely to be observed in the delivery of any passage. But very little variety of tone will be used in reading either prose or verse which contains elevated descriptions, or emotions of solemnity, sublimity, or reverence.

3. The Monotone usually requires a low tone of the voice, loud or prolonged fōrce, and a slow rate of utterance. It is this tone only, that can present the conditions of the supernatural and the ghostly.

4. The Sign of Monotone is a horizontal or even line over the words to be spoken evenly, or without inflection; as, I heard a voice saying, Shall mortal man be more just than Gòd! Shall a man be more pure than his Maker!

EXERCISES IN MONOTONE.

1. Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst

formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, Thou art Gòd.

2. Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations, also, of the hills moved, and were shaken, because he was wròth. There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured. He bowed the heavens, also, and came down, and darkness was under his fèet; and he rode upon a cherub, and did fly'; yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.

8. Man dieth, and wasteth awày: yea, man giveth up the ghóst, and where is hè? As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth úp, so man lieth down, and riseth not; till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.

4. High on a throne of royal state, which far

Outshone the wealth of Ormus or of Ind,

Or where the gorgeous East, with richest hand,
Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold,
Satan exalted såt!

5. How reverend is the face of this tall pile,
Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads,
To bear aloft its arched and ponderous roof,
By its own weight made steadfast and immovable,
Looking tranquillity! It strikes an awe
And terror on my aching sight: the tombs
And monumental caves of death look cold,
And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart.
6. Our revels are now ended: these our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits, and
Are melted into air, into thin air;

And like the baseless fabric of this vision,

The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itsèlf—
Yea, all which it inhèrit, shall dissolve,
And, like this unsubstantial pageant, fáded-
Léave not a rack behind.

7.

I am thy father's spirit;

Doomed for a certain term to walk the night,
And, for the day confined to fast in fires,

Till the foul crimes, done in my days of nature,
Are burnt and purged awày. But that I am forbid
To tell the secrets of my prison-house,

I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word

Would harrow up thy soul; freeze thy young blood;
Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their sphères;
Thy knotted and combined locks to part,

And each particular hair to stand on end,
Like quills upon the fretful pòrcupine:
But this eternal blazon must not be

To ears of flesh and blood:-List-list- list!—
If thou didst ever thy dear father love,
Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.

8. Earth yawned; he stood the center of a cloud:
Light changed its hue, retiring from his shroud:
From lips that moved not and unbreathing frame,
Like caverned winds, the hollow accents came:
"Why is my sleep disquieted?
Who is he that calls the dead?
Is it thou, O king? Behold,
Bloodless are these limbs and cold;
Such are mine; and such shall be
Thine, to-morrow, when with me:
Ere the coming day is done,
Such shalt thou be, such thy son.
Fare thee well, but for a day;
Then we mix our moldering clay.
Thou, thy race, lie pale and low,
Pierced by shafts of many a bow;
And the falchion by thy side,
To thy heart, thy hand shall guide:
Crownless, breathless, headless fall,
Son and sire, the house of Saul!"

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VI. PERSONATION.

ERSONATION consists of those modulations, or changes of the voice, necessary to represent two or more persons as speaking, or to characterize objects and ideas.

2. Personation applies both to persons, either real or imaginary, and to things. When properly employed in reading dialogues and other pieces of a conversational nature, or in making sound, by skillful modulations, "an echo to the sense," it adds much to the beauty and efficiency of delivery.

Personation

Persons

Things

3. The Student will exercise his discrimination and ingenuity in studying the character of persons or things to be represented, fully informing himself with regard to their peculiarities and conditions, and so modulate his voice as best to personate them.

EXERCISES IN PERSONATION.

1. Maud Muller looked and sighed: "Ah, me!
That I the Judge's bride might be!
He would dress me up in silks so fine,
And praise and toast me at his wine.
My father should wear a broadcloth coat;
My brother should sail a painted boat.
I'd dress my mother so grand and gay,
And the baby should have a new toy each day.
And I'd feed the hungry and clothe the poor,
And all should bless me who left our door."

2. The Judge looked back as he climbed the hill,
And saw Maud Muller standing still: