1. 2. 3. BUGLE SONG.1 The splendor falls on castle walls, O hark, O hear! how thin and clear, And thinner, clearer, farther going! O sweet and far, from cliff and scar, The horns of Elf-land faintly blowing! O love, they die in yon rich sky; They faint on hill, or field, or river: Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow forever and forever. Blow, bugle, blow! set the wild echoes flying, And answer, echoes, answer-dying, dying, dying! 4. The Aspirated Tone is an expulsion of the breath more or less strong-the words, or portions of them, being spoken in a whisper. It is used to express amazement, fear, terror, horror, revenge, and remorse; as, 1. How ill this taper burns!— Ha! who comes here?— Cold drops of sweat hang on my trembling flesh, 2. The ancient Earl, with stately grace, And whisper, in an under-tone, "Let the hawk stoop, his prey is flown." 3. And the deep thunder peal on peal afar; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning star; 1 The Bugle Song is a most happy combination of the pure tone and the orotund. While thronged the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering with white lips-"The foe! they come, they come!" 5. The Guttural is a deep under-tone, used to express hatred, contempt, and loathing. It usually occurs on the emphatic words; as, Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward! Thou cold-blooded slave! Thou wear a lion's hide? Doff it, for shame, and hang A calf-skin on those recreant limbs. Whose treason, like a deadly blight, And blasts them in their hour of might! Be drugged with treacheries to the brim- With joys, that vanish while he sips, His country's curse, his children's shame, Beholding heaven, and feeling hell! A plague upon them! wherefore should I curse them? I would invent as bitter-searching terms, 6. The Tremulous Tone, or tremor, consists of a tremulous iteration, or a number of impulses of sound of the least assignable duration. It is used in excessive grief, pity, plaintiveness, and tenderness; in an intense degree of suppressed excitement, or satisfaction; and when the voice is enfeebled by age. The Tremulous Tone is not applied throughout the whōle of an extended passage, but only on selected emphatic words, as otherwise the effect would be monotonous. In the second of the following examples, where the tremor of age is supposed to be joined with that of supplicating distress, the tremulous tone may be applied to every accented or heavy syllable capable of prolongation, which is the case with all except those of pity and shortest; but even these may receive it in a limited degree. 1. O love, remain! It is not yet near day! Nightly she sings in yon pomegranate-tree: 2. Pity the sorrows of a poor old man, 3. Whose trembling limbs have bōrne him to your door, Whose days are dwindled to the shortèst span: O give relief, and Heaven will bless your store. I have lived long enough: my way of life IV. ATE1 refers to movement in reading and speaking, and is QUICK, MODERATE, or SLOW. (Quick Beate Moderate Slow 2. Quick Rate is used to express joy, mirth, confusion, violent anger, and sudden fear; as, 1. Away! away! our fires stream bright 1 Exercise on Rate.-For a general exercise, select a sentence, and deliver it as slowly as may be possible without drawling. Repeat the sentence with a slight increase of rate, until you shall have reached a rapidity of utterance at which dis tinct articulation ceases. Having done this, reverse the process, repeating slower and slower. Thus you may acquire the ability to increase and diminish rate at pleasure, which is one of the most important elements of good reading and speaking. And their ǎrrowy sparkles of brilliant light 2. Away! away to the rocky glen, 3. Where the deer are wildly bounding! The lake has burst! The lake has burst! Down through the chasms the wild waves flee: Away to the eager awaiting sea! 4. And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, 3. Moderate Rate is used in ordinary assertion, narration, and description; in cheerfulness, and the gentler forms of the emotions; as, 1. No life worth naming ever comes to good, 2. It spoils their eyeballs while it spares their tongues, When the first larvæ on the elm are seen, The crawling wretches, like its leaves, are green; They, like the foliage, change their tint to brown: |