If I but catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. 2. Who shall separate us from the love of CHRIST? Shall tribulation? or distress? or FAMINE? 3. Roll on, thou deep and dark-blue ocean-roll! 3. Moderate Force is used in ordinary assertion, narration, and description; as, Remember this saying, "The good paymåster is lord of another man's pûrse." He that is known to pay punetually, may, at any time, raise all the money his friends can spare. 4. Gentle Force is used to express caution, fear, secrecy, and tender emotions; as, Q They are sleeping! Who are sleeping? One remains that slumber deep: III. QUALITY. UALITY has reference to the kinds of tone used in speech. They are the PURE TONE, the OROTUND, the ASPIRATED, the GUTTURAL, and the TREMBLING. Pure Tone Quality Aspirated Guttural Trembling 2. The Pure Tone is a clear, smooth, round, flowing sound, accompanied with moderate pitch; and is used to express peace, cheerfulness, joy, and love; as, Methinks I love all common things The common âir, the common flower; From hearts that have no other dower, No other wealth, no other power, For all else fortune teârs away? 3. The Orotund is the pure tone deepened, enlarged, and intensified. It is used in all energetic and vē’hement forms of expression, and in giving utterance to grand and sublime emotions; as, 1. Strike-till the last armed foe expires; 2. "FORWARD, THE LIGHT BRIGADE! Into the valley of Death rode the six hundred. 4. The Aspirated Tone is an expulsion of the breath more or less strong-the words, or portions of them, being spoken in a whisper. It is used to express amazement, fear, terror, horror, revenge, and remorse; as, 1. How ill this taper burns! Ha! who comes here? Cold drops of sweat hang on my trembling flesh, 2. While thronged the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering with white lips, "The foe! they come, they come !" 5. The Guttural is a deep under-tone, used to express hatred, contempt, and loathing. It usually occûrs on the emphatic words; as, Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward! Thou cold-blooded slave! Thou wear a lion's hide? Doff it, for shame, and hang A cälf-skin on those recreant limbs. 6. The Tremulous Tone, or Tremor, consists of a tremulous iteration, or a number of impulses of sound of the least assignable duration. It is used in excessive grief, pity, plaintiveness, and tenderness; in an intense degree of suppressed excitement, or satisfaction; and when the voice is enfeebled by age. The tremulous tone should not be applied throughout the whole of an extended passage, but only on selected emphatic words, thus avoiding monotony. In the second of the following examples, where the tremor of age is supposed to be joined with that of supplicating distress, the tremulous tone may be applied to every accented or heavy syllable capable of prōlongătion, which is the case with all except those of pity and shortest ; but even these may receive it in a limited degree. 1. Stay, jailer, stay, and hear my woe! For what I am, too well I know, And what I was, and what should be! 2. Pity the sorrows of a poor old man, Whose trembling limbs have borne him to your door, IV. ᎡᎪᎢᎬ . RATE' refers to Movement in reading and speak ing, and is QUICK, MODERATE, or SLOW. 1 Exercise on Rate.-For a general exercise, select a sentence, and deliver it as slowly as may be possible without drawling. Repeat the sentence with a slight increase of rate, until you shall have reached a rapidity of utterance at which dis tinct articulation ceases. Having done this, reverse the process, repeating slower and slower. Thus you may acquire the ability to increase and diminish rate at pleasure, which is one of the most important elements of good reading and speaking. Quick Poate Moderate 2. Quick Rate is used to express joy, mirth, confusion, viölent anger, and sudden fear; as, 1. The lake has bûrst! The lake has burst! Down through the chasms the wild waves flee: Away to the eager awaiting sea! 2. And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, 3. Moderate Rate is used in ordinary assertion, narration, and description; in cheerfulness, and the gentler forms of the emotions; as, When the sun walks upon the blue sea-waters, Enrich me with sweet words. 4. Slow Rate is used to express grandeur, vastness, pathos, solemnity, adoration, and horror; as, 1. O thou Eternal One! whose presence bright All space doth occupy, all motion guide; Unchanged through time's all-děv'astating flight; Thou only God! Thêre is no God beside! 2. The eûrfew tolls-the knell of parting day; The lowing herd winds slowly ō'er the lea; The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darknèss and to me. V. MONOTONE. MONOTONE consists of a degree of sameness of tone, in a number of successive words or syllables. 2. A perfect Sameness is rarely to be observed in reading any passage or sentence. But very little variety of tone is to be used in reading either prose or vērse which contains elevated descriptions, or emotions of solemnity, sublimity, or reverence. 3. Monotone usually Requires a low tone of the voice, loud or prolonged force, 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; as, God, whose wrath no man can resist, and under whom they stoop that bear up the world. EXERCISES IN MONOTONE. 1. Lord, Thou hast been our refuge from generation to generation. Before the mountains were made, or the earth and the world were formed, from eternity and to eternity, Thou art God. 2. Remember, I beseech Thee, that Thou hast made me as the clay, and Thou wilt bring me into dust again. Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh; Thou hast put me together with bones and sinews. 3. The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, 4. The solemn temples, the great globe itself— And, like this unsubstantial pageant, faded— I am thy father's spirit ; Doomed for a certain term to walk the night, Till the foul crimes, done in my days of nature, |