the power 66 to trip it as he goes," in the mood of gay description, light satire, vivid dialogue, and droll humor.

The three principal faults of " movement," which are exemplified in the common practice of reading, are uniform slowness, or, perhaps, a drawling style; habitual rapidity, which prevents all deep and impressive effect, and, perhaps, causes indistinctness of enunciation; a uniform "moderate" "movement," which never yields to any natural influence of emotion, - -so as to become appropriately expressive, and pass from grave to gay, or the reverse, by a change in the gait of the voice, but utters, automaton-like, all feelings in the same unmeaning and mechanical style; the voice marching on, with one uniform measured step, over all varieties of surface, as regards the tenor of language and the subject.

The following examples of "movement" should be assiduously practised, in conjunction with the elements and with tables of words, selected as exercises for this purpose, from the chapter on enunciation. The repetition of such exercises should be continued till the student can execute with perfect precision, and with the utmost readiness, all the "movements" enumerated in the classification.

EXAMPLES OF "MOVEMENT."

I." Slowest Movement."

Amazement, Awe, and Horror.

[FROM BYRON'S DREAM OF DARKNESS.]

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("Aspirated pectoral quality:" Suppressed force: "Median stress:" "Lowest pitch :" Prevalent "monotone:" Extremely long pauses.)

"I had a dream which was not all á dream.

The bright sun was extinguished; and the stars
Did wander darkling in the eternal space,
Rayless, and pathless; and the icy earth

Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air;

Morn came, and went,—and came, and brought no day. "The world was void:

The populous and the powerful was a lump,

Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless,—
A lump of death-a chaos of hard clay.
The rivers, lakes, and ocean, all stood still;
And nothing stirred within their silent depths:
Ships, sailorless, lay rotting on the sea;

And their masts fell down piecemeal: as they dropped,

They slept on the abyss without a surge;

The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave;
The moon, their mistress, had expired before;
The winds were withered in the stagnant air;

And the clouds perished: Darkness had no need
She was the universe."

Of aid from them,

2.-Profound Reverence, Solemnity, and Adoration.

[DERZHAVIN'S HYMN.]-Bowring.

("Effusive and expulsive orotund :" "Pectoral quality:" "Subdued" force : "Median stress:" "Low pitch :" Prevalent "downward slide," occasional "monotone:" Pauses extremely long.)

“Thou from primeval nothingness didst call
First chaos, then existence :-Lord! on thee
Eternity had its foundation;-all

Sprung forth from Thee,-of light, joy, harmony,
Sole origin:all life, all beauty thine.

Thy word created all, and doth create;
Thy splendor fills all space with rays divine.
Thou art, and wert, and shalt be! Glorious! great!
Light-giving, life-sustaining Potentate!"

II." Slow Movement."

1.-Reverence, Gratitude, and Praise.

[FROM THE BOOK OF PSALMS.]

("Effusive orotund quality:" "Subdued " force: "Median stress :" "Low pitch :" Prevalent "downward slide:" Long pauses.)

"O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is Thy name in all the earth! who hast set Thy glory above the heavens.

"When I consider Thy heavens, the work of Thy fingers ; the moon and the stars, which Thou hast ordained; what is man that Thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that Thou visitest him?

For Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honor. Thou madest

him to have dominion over the works of Thy hands: Thou hast put all things under his feet.

“O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is Thy name in all the earth!"

2.-Sublimity, Majesty, and Power.

[FROM DAVID'S PSALM OF PRAISE, ON HIS DELIVERANCE FROM HIS

ENEMIES.]

("Expulsive orotund :" "Impassioned" force: "Radical and Median stress:""Low pitch:" Prevalent " downward slide," occasional " monotone:" Long pauses.)

“Then the earth shook and trembled: the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth. There went up a smoke out of his nostrils; and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it. He bowed the heavens, also, and came down; and darkness was under his feet; and he rode upon a cherub, and did fly; and he was seen upon the wings of the wind; and he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies. The Lord thundered from heaven, and the Most High uttered his voice; and he sent out arrows and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them. And the channels of the sea appeared; the foundations of the world were discovered at the rebuking of the Lord, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils."

3.-Splendor.

[THE PALACE OF PANDEMONIUM.]-Milton.

("Effusive and expulsive orotund :" "Moderate" force: "Median stress:""Low pitch :" Prevalent" monotone :" Pauses of moderate length.)

"Anon out of the earth a fabric huge
Rose like an exhalation, with the sound
Of dulcet symphonies, and voices sweet,
Built like a temple, where pilasters round
Were set, and Doric pillars, overlaid
With golden architrave; nor did there want

Cornice, or frieze, with bossy sculptures graven;
The roof was fretted gold. Not Babylon,
Nor great Alcairo, such magnificence
Equalled in all their glories, to enshrine
Belus, or Serapis, their gods; or seat

Their kings, when Egypt with Assyria strove
In wealth and luxury. The ascending pile
Stood fixed her stately height: and straight the doors
Opening their brazen folds, discover wide

Within, her ample spaces, o'er the smooth
And level pavement: from the arched roof,
Pendent by subtle magic, many a row
Of starry lamps, and blazing cressets, fed
With naptha and asphaltus, yielded light
As from a sky."

("Pure tone :"

"Moderate" force: "Unimpassioned radical stress :" :""Middle pitch :" Varied "slides :" Moderate pauses.) "The city and republic of Carthage were destroyed by the termination of the third Punic war, about one hundred and fifty years before Christ. The city was in flames during seventeen days; and the news of its destruction caused the greatest joy at Rome. The Roman senate immediately appointed commissioners, not only to raze the walls of Carthage, but even to demolish and burn the very materials of which they were made; and, in a few days, that city, which had once been the seat of commerce, the model of magnificence, the common storehouse of the wealth of nations, and one of the most powerful states in the world, left behind no trace of its splendor, of its power, or even of its existence. The history of Carthage is one of the many proofs that we have of the transient nature of worldly glory; for, of all her grandeur, not a wreck remains. Her own walls, like the

calm ocean, that conceals forever the riches hid in its unsearchable abyss, now obscure all her magnificence."

2.- Descriptive Style.

[ASPECT OF EGYPT.]-Addison.

(“Pure tone:" "Moderate" force: "Unimpassioned radical” and gentle "median stress:" "Middle pitch :" Varied "slides:" Moderate pauses.)

"There cannot be a finer sight than Egypt, at two seasons of the year. For, if we ascend one of the pyramids, in the months of July and August, we behold, in the swollen waters of the Nile, a vast sea, in which numberless towns and villages appear, with several causeways leading from place to place; the whole interspersed with groves and fruit-trees, whose tops only are visible; -all which forms a delightful prospect. This view is bounded by mountains and woods, which terminate,—at the utmost distance the eye can discover, the most beautiful horizon that can be imagined. In winter, on the contrary, that is to say, in the months of January and February, the whole country is like one continuous scene of beautiful meadows, whose verdure, enamelled with flowers, charms the eye. The spectator beholds, on every side, flocks and herds dispersed over all the plains, with infinite numbers of husbandmen and gardeners. The air is then perfumed by the great quantity of blossoms on the orange, lemon, and other trees, and is so pure that a wholesomer or more agreeable is not to be found in the world; so that nature being then dead, as it were, in all other climates, seems to be alive only for so delightful an abode."

3.-Didactic Style.

[REASON AND INSTINCT.]-Addison.

("Pure tone:" "Moderate" force: "Unimpassioned radical stress:" :""Middle pitch :" " Varied slides:" Moderate pauses.) "One would wonder to hear skeptical men disputing for the reason of animals, and telling us it is only our pride and prejudices that will not allow them the use of that faculty.