RULE III. Whatever member intervenes between the verb and the accusative case, is of the nature of a parenthesis, and must be separated from both by a short pause. Example. "I knew a person who possessed the faculty of distinguishing flavours in so great a perfection, that, after having tasted ten different kinds of tea, he could distinguish,/without seeing the colour of it,/—the particular sort which was offered him.” RULE IV. ADDISON. Whatever words are put into the case absolute, must be separated from the rest by a pause. Example. “If a man borrow ought of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or die,/ the owner thereof being with it,/—he shall surely make it good." RULE V. Words or phrases in apposition, or when the latter only explain the former,-have a short pause between them. Example. 1. "Spencer,/ the poet,/ lived in the reign of Queen Elizabeth." 2. " Hope, the balm of life, soothes us under every misfortune." RULE VI. Who and which, when relative pronouns, and that, when it stands for who and which, always admit of a pause before them. Examples. 1. “A man can never be obliged to submit to any power, unless he can be satisfied,/ whois the person,/ who has a right to exercise it." 2. " LOCKE. Many of Johnson's works, which you so much admire,/ were written in great haste." 3. "Nothing is in vain,/ that rouses the soul: nothing in vain, that keeps the ethereal fire alive and glowing." RULE VII. When that is used as a casual conjunction, it ought always to be preceded by a short pause. Example. "The custom and familiarity of these tongues do sometimes so far influence the expressions in these epistles,/ that one may observe the force of the Hebrew conjugation." RULE VIII. LOCKE. Where there is no pause in the sense at the end of a verse, the last word must have exactly the same inflection it would have in prose. Example. "Over their heads a crystal firmament, Whereon a sapphire throne, inlaid with pure RULE IX. MILTON. In reading blank verse, care must be taken to steer between the one extreme of ending every line with a pause; and the other, of running one line into another more rapidly than in prose. RULE X. A simile, in poetry, ought always to be read in a lower tone of voice than that part of the passage which precedes it. Sublime, grand, and magnificent description in poetry, requires a lower tone of voice, and a sameness nearly approaching to a monotone. SELECTIONS IN VERSE. ADDRESS TO MONT BLANC. pause HAST thou a charm to stay the morning-star O dread and silent mount! I gazed upon thee, Didst vanish from my thought: entranced in prayer, Yet, like some sweet, beguiling melody, So sweet, we know not we are listening to it, Thou first and chief, sole sovran of the vale! Co-herald wake, O wake, and utter praise!. Your strength, your speed, your fury, and your joy, And who commanded (and the silence came), Here let the billows stiffen, and have rest?” Ye ice-falls! ye that from the mountain's brow Who made you glorious as the gates of heaven God! sing, ye meadow-streams, with gladsome voice! Ye living flowers, that skirt the eternal frost! Utter forth, God! and fill the hills with praise! Once more, hoar mount! with thy sky-pointing peaks, Oft from whose feet the avalanche, unheard, Shoots downward, glittering through the pure serene, |