Misery:-" Wailing and woe, and grief, and fear, and pain." Calling:—" Awake! arise! or be forever fallen!" Denial: "I give thee, in thy teeth, the lie!" "The truth of his whole statement I do most peremptorily deny." Challenge:-" Pale, trembling coward! there I throw my gage." "Draw, villain, draw, and defend thy life!" Exultation:-"Poison, and Plague, and yelling Rage are fled!" Adoration:-"Azr, earth, and sea, resound His praise abroad!" Melancholy:-"Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste"Grandeur: :—“ Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain!" Anger: Pathos: Command: "And dar'st thou, then, To beard the lion in his den, The Douglas in his hall? And hop'st thou hence unscathed to go?- For I am poor and miserably old!" "Chieftains forego! The man who strikes makes me his foe." 66 Hold, hold! for your lives!" Earnest Entreaty :-"Hear me! oh! hear me !" "Farewell fear! Despair: Madness: Pity: Distraction:· "Sickness, and want, and feeble, trembling · -"Blow, wind, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!" Gloom:- "Thou drear and howling wilderness!" Vastness and Sublimity:-" Boundless, endless, and sublime!" Self-reproach:-" O fool! fool! fool!" Commiseration:-"Poor fool and knave, I have one part in Imprecation: my heart That's sorry yet for thee!" You taking airs, with lameness! You nimble lightnings, dart your blinding flames Into her scornful eyes!" Accusation:- "Nathan said unto David, Thou art the man!'" "All the treasons, for these eighteen years, Complotted and concocted in this land, Fetch from false Mowbray their chief spring Joy: "Joy, joy! shout, shout aloud for joy!" Sorrow: Delight: 66 Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe!" "Oh! pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!" "Ah! lady, now full well I know "Of bloom ethereal the light-footed Dews." 2.- Short "Quantities," and "Immutable" Syllables. Instan [The object in view, in the following examples, is to exhibit the explosive" mode of utterance, and to impart the power of concentrating and condensing expression into the shortest sounds. taneous execution is, in these examples, the point to be aimed at; the voice to be charged with the utmost impetuous force of utterance, on every expressive syllable; and any approach to prolongation to be carefully avoided, as tending to weaken the proper effect. The "explosion," in many of these instances, should resemble the startling abruptness of a sudden and violent blow.] · Wrath :-" Back to thy punishment! false fugitive." Maddened Resolve:-"I'll fight till from my bones my flesh be hacked!" Reproach: "Up! sluggards, up!" "Wicked, remorseless wretch!" Indignation:-"Thou impious mocker, hence!" Terror: "Be ready, gods, with all your thunderbolts! Dash him in pieces!" "Whence is that knocking?" Command: :- "Sound, tuckets!" Scorn: · "You, wretch! you could enjoy yourself, like a butcher's dog in the shambles, battening on garbage, while the slaughter of the brave went on around you." Contempt: · "Thou tattered starveling!" "The swaggering upstart reels!" Mirth: ."Come, and trip it, as ye go, On the light fantastic toe!" Boasting:- "I have seen the day, with my good biting falchion I would have made them skip!" Threatening :—"This day's the birth of sorrows: this hour's work Will breed proscriptions!" "Faithful to whom? to thy rebellious crew! Amazement : :- "What! fifty of my followers at a clap!” Revenge: "Batter their walls down, raze them to the ground!" Shouting:"Victory! victory! Their columns give way! press them while they waver; and the day is ours!" Anger:-"Thou muttering, malapert knave!" Derision: 66 Ay! sputter away, thou roasting apple! Spit forth thy spleen! 't will ease thy heart." Horror: 66 I could not say, Amen, "Amen Stuck in my throat! Warning: Bitterly shall ye rue your folly!” Remorse: An honest man, my neighbor, — there he stands, Was struck, struck like a dog,-by one who wore The badge of Ursini,”— Whip me, ye devils! From the possession of a sight like this." 3. Variable "Quantities," and "Mutable" Syllables. [The design of the following exercises, is to attract the student's attention to the partial change of "quantity," which emotion produces on "mutable" syllables, according to the characteristic tone, in each instance. True, natural, and full" expression," requires, for example, that awe, solemnity, reverence, and similar feelings, should be uttered with a comparative prolongation of " quantity," when the structure of syllables will admit the change, and that hurry, agitation, alarm, and other moods of mind tending to the same effects, should be expressed with a rapid enunciation, and "quantities” ren dered as brief as possible.] 1.-Impatience, and Revenge. [MACDUFF, AFTER HEARING OF THE MASSACRE OF HIS FAMILY BY THE ORDER OF MACBETH.]-Shakspeare. "But gentle Heaven, Impatience: (S. q.1) "Cut short all intermission: front to front, Revenge: (L. q.2) "Within my sword's length set him; - if he 'scape, 1 Shorter quantity. 2 Longer quantity. 2.-Cheerfulness, and Scorn. Cheerfulness: (S. q.) [THE BANISHED DUKE, IN THE FOREST, TO HIS FRIENDS.]-Shakspeare. "Now my co-mates, and brothers in exile, Scorn: (L. q.) [SATAN TO ITHURIEL AND ZEPHON.]-Milton. "Know ye not me? Ye knew me once no mate 3.-Reproachful Interrogation, and Indignant Surprise. Reproachful Interrogation: (S. q.) [DEMOSTHENES TO THE ATHENIANS.] "Will you forever, Athenians, do nothing but walk up and down the city, asking one another' What news?' Indignant Surprise: (L. q.) "What news!' Can anything be more new than that a man of Macedonia should lord it over Athens, and give laws to all Greece?" 4.-Surprise, and Contempt. Surprise: (S. q.) [BANQUO, TO MACBETH, ON THE VANISHING OF THE WITCHES.]-Shaks peare. “The earth hath bubbles, as the water has; And these are of them." Contempt: (L. q.) [FROM DRYDEN'S ODE FOR SAINT CECILIA'S DAY.] "War, he sung, was toil and trouble, |