A Quarterly Magazine VOL. V. INCLUDING NUMBERS SEVENTEEN, EIGHTEEN, NINETEEN EDITED BY PAUL M. PEARSON If PUBLISHED BY 31, 33 AND 35 WEST FIFTEENTH STREET Volume V, No. 1. Whole No. 17. Expression in Reading BY ROBERT LLOYD.* 'Tis not enough the voice be sound and clear, 'Tis modulation that must charm the ear. When desperate heroines grieve with tedious moan, The same soft sounds of unimpassioned woes That voice all modes of passion can express Which marks the proper word with proper stress; Some o'er the tongue the labored measures roll And even in speaking we may seem too just. In vain for them the pleasing measure flows Some placid natures fill the allotted scene * Robert Lloyd was an English poet of the middle eighteenth century. |