in Parliament assembled, whose Parliamentary trust he has betrayed. I impeach him in the name of all the Commons of Great Britain, whose national character he has dishonored. I impeach him in the name of the people of India, whose laws, rights, and liberties, he has subverted; whose properties he has destroyed; whose country he has laid waste and desolate. I impeach him in the name and by virtue of those eternal laws of justice which he has violated. I impeach him in the name of human nature itself, which he has cruelly outraged, injured, and oppressed, in both sexes, in every age, rank, situation, and condition of life. Х § 65. Exercises in Time. (See § 37.) Quick Time. 1. THE ENCounter. Scott. Expressive Movement. Middle Pitch. Forth from the pass in tumult driven, The archery appear: For life! for life! their flight they ply, - Before that tide of flight and chase, Orotund Quality. "Down! down!" cried Mar, "your lances down! Like reeds before the tempest's frown, That serried grove of lances brown And closely shouldering side to side, What a world of merriment their melody foretells! Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells Bells, bells, bells From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells. Time moderate, changing to quick at the tenth line. Pitch middle. Then the Master, With a gesture of command, Waved his hand; And at the word, Loud and sudden there was heard, All around them and below, The sound of hammers, blow on blow, She starts! she moves! she seems to feel And spurning with her foot the ground, She leaps into the ocean's arms! 4. FROM ALEXANDER'S FEAST. Dryden. Slow Time. Orotund Quality. - Middle Pitch, changing to low. He sung Da-ri'us great and good, Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen, Fallen from his high estate, Deserted at his utmost need, The various turns of fate below, And now and then a sigh he stole, And tears began to flow! Quick Time. Aspirate and Orotund Quality. — Transitional Modulation. Revenge, revenge! Ti-mo'the-us cries, See the furies arise! See the snakes that they rear, How they hiss in their hair, And the sparkles that flash from their eyes! Behold a grisly band, Each a torch in his hand! These are the Grecian ghosts that in battle were slain, And unburied remain, Inglorious on the plain! Give the vengeance due, To the valiant crew: Behold how they toss their torches on high, How they point to the Persian abodes And glitt'ring temples of their hostile gods! The princes applaud with a furious joy, And the king seized a flambeau, with zeal to destroy: To light them to their prey, And like another Helen fired another Troy! 5. FAULCONBRIDGE TO KING JOHN. Shakespeare. Moderate Time, changing to quick. — Orotund Quality. — Middle and High Pitch. But wherefore do you droop? why look you sad? Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire; And fright him there? and make him tremble there? To meet displeasure farther from the doors; And grapple with him, ere he come so nigh. § 66. Exercises in Pause. (See § 38.) It is not pretended that every good reader, or even the same reader at different times, will use the same pauses; and those marked in these and other Exercises are not given to prescribe rules, but to form the pupil's ear and to show him the significance of the pause in giving point and effect to certain emotions. The dotted lines generally indicate a break in an otherwise continuative tone. The long dash indicates that division of the sentence at which the principal suspensive pause must be suggested to the hearer. 1. To employ the best years... of this fleeting existence ... in the pursuits of folly. and the indulgences of sense ... degrades a man ... from his rank in the creation even below the brutes. placed under his command. 2. The young, the healthy, . . . and the prosperous ... should not presume on their advantages. ... ... 3. Humanity,... justice, . . . generosity, . . . and public spirit are the qualities that chiefly recommend . . . man to man. ... 4. It is pleasant to be virtuous and good, because that... is to excel many others; it is pleasant to grow better, because that .. is to excel ourselves; it is pleasant to mortify and subdue our lusts, because that... is victory; it is pleasant to command our appetites and passions, because that is empire. 5. We make provision for this - life . . . as though it were never to have an end, and for the other - life though it were never to have a beginning. as the art of 6. Of all the discoveries of modern ages printing... has certainly done most... for the improvement of mankind. 7. A man of a polite imagination can converse with a picture . . . and find an agreeable companion in a statue. 8. This is some fellow Who, having been praised for bluntness, doth affect Quite from his nature. ... He CANNOT flatter . . . IIE! And they will take it . . . so; if not... he's PLAIN. These kind of knaves I know, which in this . . . PLAINNESS Than twenty silly, ducking observants, That stretch their duties nicely. ΕΙ 9. GRATTAN'S DENUNCIATION OF MR. FLOOD. ΕΙ Sir, you are much mistaken if you think that your talents have been as great as your life has been reprehensible. You began your parliamentary career with an acrimony and personality which could have been justified only by a supposition of virtue. After a rank and clamorous opposition, you became |