,

Her beauty and her chivalry; and bright

The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men.
A thousand hearts beat happily, and when

Music arose with its voluptuous swell,

Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again,

And all went merry as a marriage-bell."

Grave' example for lower pitch' and less than 'moderate compass.'

“And, — when I am forgotten, as I shall be,

And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention

Of me more must be heard of,

say I taught thee;
Say, Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory,
And sounded all the depths and shoals of honor,
Found thee a way, out of his wreck, to rise in,
A sure and safe one, though thy master missed it.
Mark but my fall, and that that ruined me.
Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition:
By that sin fell the angels; how can man then,
The image of his Maker, hope to win by 't?

Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's,

Thy God's, and truth's: then, if thou fall'st, O Cromwell!
Thou fall'st a blessed martyr!"

VOLUME.

6 Full volume' is the most essential element in the truthful expression of noble' sentiment.

1. "MIND is the NOBLEST part of man; and of mind, VIRTUE is the NOBLEST distinction. HONEST MAN, in the ear of Wisdom, is a grander name, is a more high-sounding title, than peer of the realm, or prince of the blood. According to the eternal rules of celéstial precedency, in the immortal heraldry of Náture and of Heaven, VÌRTUE takes place of all things. It is the nobility of ANGELS! It is the MAJESTY of GÒD!”

In addition to 'full volume,' 'noble' pieces demand slow time, or long quantity and pauses, long slides, and loud but smooth-swelling force on the emphatic words. Full volume distinguishes manly sentiments from the thin or fine tone of childlike emotions.

use.

2.

"But strew his ashes to the wind,

Whose sword or voice has served mankind.
And is he dead whose glorious mind

Lifts thine on high?

To live in hearts we leave behind,
Is not to die.

"Is 't death to fall for Freedom's right?
He's dead alone that lacks her light!
And murder sullies in Heaven's sight
The sword he draws:-
What can alone ennoble fight?
A noble cause!"

STRESS.

Stress is not the degree but the kind of emphatic force we The same degree of loudness may be given to a syllable abruptly and suddenly, as in sharp command, or smoothly and gradually, as in the noble examples given above. This sudden and harsh kind of force we will call abrupt stress;' the other smooth stress.'

PRINCIPLE.

Abrupt stress' should be given to all abrupt or harsh ideas, and pleasant or smooth stress' to all good or pleasant ideas.

Mere command is abrupt; indignation, anger, defiance, revenge, &c., are all abrupt in their very nature; and, therefore, must be read with the abrupt stress.'

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ABRUPT STRESS.

1. Impatient command.

"Hènce! home you idle creatures, get you home.

You blocks, you STONES, you WORSE than senseless things!
Be gone!

Run to your houses, fall upon your knèes,

Pray to the gods to intermit the PLAGUE

That needs must light on this ingràtitude.”.

The force must be thrown with an abrupt jerk on the emphatic syllables.

2. Anger. (Loud as well as abrupt' force and long slides.')

"CASSIUS. That you have wronged me doth appear in this;
You have condemned and noted Lucius Pella,
For taking bribes here of the Sardians;
Wherein, my letter, praying on his side,
Because I knew the man, was slighted off.

BRUTUS. You wronged yourself to write in such a case.
CAS. In such a time as this is it not meet
That every nice offence should bear its comment?
BRU. Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself
Are much condemned to have an itching palm;'
To sell and mart your offices for gold
To undeservers.

CAS. I an itching palm?

1

You know that you are Brutus that speak this,
Or, by the gods, this speech were else your last.
BRU. The name of Cassius honors this corruption,
And chastisement does therefore hide his head.

Chastisement?

CAS.
BRU. Remember March, the ides of March remember.
Did not great Julius bleed for justice's sake?
What villain touched his body, that did stab,
And not for justice? What! shall one of us,

That struck the foremost man of all this world,
But for supporting robbers, shall we now
Contaminate our fingers with base bribes,
And sell the mighty space of our large honors,
For so much trash as may be grasped thus?
I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon,

3. Defiance. (Very abrupt' and 'loud,' with long slides.

“I have returned, nót as the right honorable member has said, to raise another stórm, —I have returned to protect that constitution, of which I was the parent and the founder, from the assassination of such men as the honorable gèntleman and his unworthy associates. They are corrupt- they are SEDÌTIOUS — and they, at this very mòment, are in a conSPIRACY against their country! Here I stand for impeachment or trial! I dàre accusation! I DEFY the honorable gentleman! I defy the GOVERNMENT! I defy their whole PHÀLANX! Let them come fòrth! I tell the ministers I will neither give them quarter, nor take it!”

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4. Indignation.

"Who is the man, that, in addition to the disgraces and mischiefs of the war, has dared to authorize and associate to our arms the tomahawk and scalping-knife of the savage ?to call into civilized alliance the wild and inhuman inhabitant of the woods?-to delegate to the merciless Indian the defence of disputed rights, and to wage the horrors of his barbarous war against our brethren? My lords, we are called upon as members of this house, as men, as Christian men, to protest against such horrible barbarity."

SMOOTH STRESS.

All pleasant and good ideas demand smooth stress' or force, free from all abruptness.

In 'joyous' pieces, when the time is fast, the stress must be given with a lively, SPRINGING swell of the voice, which throws the force smoothly on the middle of the sound. Hence it is called the median' stress.

1.

Animated and joyous' examples for smooth stress.
"His cares flew away,

And vísions of happiness dànced o'er his mind.

"He dreamed of his hòme, of his dear nàtive bowers,
And pleasures that waited on life's merry mòrn;
While memory each scene gayly covered with flowers,
And restòred every róse, but secréted its thòrn."

In the following example of 'noble,' manly joy, the happy median stress swells with the same smooth, springing force as above, but with more fulness and longer quantity and pauses.

2. "Fellow Citizens, I congratulate you, I give you joy, on the return of this anniversary. I see, before and around me, a mass of faces, glowing with cheerfulness and patriotic pride. This anniversary animates and gladdens and unites all American hearts. Every man's heart swells within him, every man's port and bearing becomes somewhat more proud and lofty, as he remembers that seventy-five years have rolled away, and that the great inheritance of liberty is still his; his, undiminished and unimpaired; his, in all its original glory; his to enjoy, his to protect, and his to transmit to future generations."

'Subdued' example for gentle but happy median or smooth stress.

"At last, Malibran came; and the child sat with his glance riveted upon her glorious face. Could he believe that the grand lady, all blazing with jewels, and whom everybody seemed to worship, would really sing his little song? Breath