5. Oh, with what pride I used

To walk these hills, and look up to my God,

And bless him that the land was free. 'Twas free-
From end to end, from cliff to lake, 't was free!—
Free as our torrents are that leap our rocks,
And plow our valleys, without asking leave!
Or as our peaks, that wear their caps of snow
In very presence of the regal sun!

6. Stand! the ground's your own, my braves!
Will ye give it up to slaves?

Will ye look for greener graves?

Hope ye mercy still?

What's the mercy despots feel?

Hear it-in that battle peal!
Read it on your bristling steel!

Ask it-ye who will.

7. It is in vain to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace; but there is no peace. The war is actually begun. The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms!

8. O Liberty! O sound once delightful to every Roman ear. 0 sacred privilege of Roman citizenship-once sacred, but now trampled upon.

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EXAMPLES IN SHORT QUANTITY.

Brutus. Hear me, for I will speak:

Must I give way and room to your rash choler?

Shall I be frightened when a madman stares?

Cassius. O ye gods! ye gods! must I endure all this?
Brutus. All this! ay, more: fret till your proud heart break;

Go show your slaves how choleric you are,

And make your bondsmen tremble. Must I budge?
Must I observe you? Must I stand and crouch
Under your testy humor? By the gods,
You shall digest the venom of your spleen,

Though it do split you; for, from this day forth,
I'll use you for my mirth, yea, for my laughter,
When you are waspish.

K. N. E.-6.

2. Ye stand here now like giants, as ye are! The strength of brass is in your toughened sinews; but to-morrow some Roman Adonis, breathing sweet perfume from his curly locks, shall with his lily fingers pat your red brawn, and bet his sestérces upon your blood. Hark! hear ye yon lion roaring in his den? 'Tis three days since he tasted flesh, but to-morrow he shall break his fast upon you, and a dainty meal for him ye will be!

3. So you will fly out! Can't you be cool, like me? What good can passion do? Passion is of no service, you impudent, insolent, overbearing reprobate! There, you sneer again! Don't provoke me! You rely upon the mildness of my temper! you do, you dog! You play upon the meekness of my disposition! Yet, take care! the patience of a saint may be overcome at last! But, mark! I give you six hours and a half to consider this. If you then agree, without any condition, to every thing on earth that I choose, why, confound you! I may in time forgive you; if not, s'death! don't enter the same hemisphere with me! don't dare to breathe the same air or use the same light with me! but get an atmosphere and a sun of your own! I'll strip you of your commission! I'll lodge a five and three-pence in the hands of trustees, and you shall live on the interest! I'll disown you! I'll disinherit you! and, hang me! if I ever call you Jack again!

MELODY.

Melody relates to the melodious utterance of words in speech. No other vocal qualifications or attainments of a reader, an actor, or an orator, will so win and retain attention, or give so much pleasure to the ear as a rich musical voice, and a melodious utterance.

To obtain a better command of melody of speech, practice upon passages which require long quantity, subdued force, and long pauses. Words which are best suited for practice in long quantity are of that class which are accented on open vowels, and terminate either with open vowels or subvowels; of the sub-vowels, the nasals and the liquids admit of the longest and most melodious vanish.

The principal charm in reading poetry consists in melody. Melodious utterance is mainly the result of the musical vanish given to words of the class before named, hence the importance of being able to give the open vowels and the sub-vowels with varying degrees of force in long quantity, and a delicate, rich, musical vanish on the last syllable of the emphatic word.

Give the following words affirmatively, interrogatively, and negatively, with the longest quantity and the greatest melody you can command consistent with easy and natural utterance: Bold, noble, round, all, storm, fall, prayer, snare, arm, calm, star, roll, law, cause, seem, queen, moan, groan, now, vow, toil, coil, roar, time, thine, view, knew, world, furled, hurled, wound, doom, soon, cool, same, name, vain.

EXAMPLES IN MELODY.

1. The scene was more beautiful far to my eye, Than if day in its pride had arrayed it;

2.

3.

The land-breeze blew mild, and the azure, arched sky
Looked pure as the spirit that made it;

The murmur rose soft, as I silently gazed

On the shadowy waves' playful motion,

From the dim, distant hill, 'till the light-house fire blazed
Like a star in the midst of the ocean.

No more, no more

The worldly shore

Upbraids me with its loud uproar!

With dreamful eyes,

My spirit lies

Under the walls of Paradise!

On this I ponder,

Where'er I wander,

And thus grow fonder,

Sweet Cork, of thee;

With thy bells of Shandon,
That sound so grand on

The pleasant waters

Of the river Lee,

4. Thou art, O God! the life and light
Of all this wondrous world we see;
Its glow by day, its smile by night,
Are but reflections caught from thee.
Where'er we turn, thy glories shine,
And all things fair and bright are Thine!

5. Tell me, thou mighty deep,

Whose billows round me play,
Know'st thou some favored spot

Some island far away,

Where weary man may find
The bliss for which he sighs,
Where sorrow never lives,

And friendship never dies?

The loud waves rolling in perpetual flow,
Stopped for awhile, and sighed to answer-"No!"

QUALITY.

Quality has reference to the kind of voice with which we speak. There are as many different kinds or qualities of voices as there are voices. Every one's voice has its peculiar characteristic, and this peculiar quality enables us to distinguish persons as readily as by their names. A good voice, with respect to quality, is one, the tones of which are pure, round, full, smooth, clear, sweet, and musical. Of all the good qualities, purity of tone in the human voice is every way the most important. The bad qualities of the voice are impurity, roughness, hoarseness, harshness, wheeziness, flatness, hollowness, shrillness, and the nasal twang.

The good qualities of the voice are the most easy, audible, and agreeable, and it is to them that attention should be chiefly given with a view to improvement in vocal expression. The training required for this consists in exercising frequently and carefully on all the good qualities of the voice.

PAUSE.

Pauses are necessary, not only to take breath, but in order to give the hearer a more clear perception of the meaning of each clause and sentence, and a more perfect understanding of the whole passage.

The length of the pause can not in any case be determined by rules. There are, however, a few general principles which may be safely observed: one is, that the pause should be in proportion to the rate of utterance, the pause being comparatively long when the utterance is slow, and short when it is quick. They should correspond in frequency and duration with those that we make when we express ourselves in ordinary, animated, or in serious conversation, and not in any formal or artificial manner. Although there is a measure for words in poetry, there is no measure for pauses.

The pauses that are made in the natural flow of speech have no definite and invariable proportion. Every word or group of words conveying a distinct idea should be followed by a pause. In the natural flow of conversation we notice pauses of various lengths-some scarcely perceptible, others long enough for the speaker to take breath, others much longer.

The Grammatical Pauses, indicated by punctuation marks, are not a sufficient guide to the reader, either as to when or how long he ought to pause. A good reader will frequently pause where no grammarian would insert a point.

The Rhetorical Pause consists in suspending the voice, either directly before or directly after, or both before and after, the utterance of a word that is intended to be very significant or expressive.

The pause before the word awakens curiosity and excites expectation; after the word, it carries the mind back to what has already been said. A pause of greater or less