3. So by long living on a single lie, Nay, on one truth, will creatures get its dye; Red, yellow, green, they take their subject's hue- Within, and they that luster have imbibed In the sun's palace-pōrch, where, when unyoked, Its polished lips to your attentive ear, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there. 4. Warriors and statesmen have their meed of praise, But the long sacrifice of woman's days Of duties sternly, faithfully fulfilled— For which the anxious mind must watch and wake, And leaves no memory and no trace behind! Yet it may be, more lofty coŭrage dwells In one meek heart which braves an adverse fate, Than his whose ardent soul indignant swells, Warmed by the fight, or cheered through high debate. The soldier dies surrounded: could he live, Alone to suffer, and alone to strive? 4. Slow Rate is used to express grandeur, vastness, pathos, solemnity, adoration, horror, and consterna. tion; as, 1. 0 thou Eternal One! whose presence bright Unchanged through time's all-děv'astating flight; 2. The curfew tōlls the knell of parting day; The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea; The plowman homeward plods his weary way, 3. Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean-roll! When, for a moment, like a drop of rain, MON V. MONOTONE. ONOTONE consists of a degree of sameness of sound, or tone, in a number of successive words or syllables. 2. A perfect Sameness is rarely to be observed in the delivery of any passage. But very little variety of tone will be used in reading either prose or verse which contains elevated descriptions, or emotions of solemnity, sublimity, or reverence. 3. The Monotone usually requires a low tone of the voice, loud or prolonged fōrce, and a slow rate of utterance. It is this tone only, that can present the conditions of the supernatural and the ghostly. 4. The Sign of Monotone is a horizontal or even line over the words to be spoken evenly, or without inflection; as, I heard a voice saying, Shall mortal man be more just than God! Shall a man be more pure than his Maker! EXERCISES IN MONOTONE. 1. Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, Thou art God. 2. Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations, also, of the hills moved, and were shaken, because he was wroth. There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured. He bowed the heavens, also, and came down, and darkness was under his feet; and he rode upon a cherub, and did fly'; yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind. 3. Man dieth, and wasteth awày: yea, man giveth up the ghóst, and where is hè? As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth úp, so man lieth down, and riseth not; till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. 4. High on a throne of royal state, which far 5. Outshone the wealth of Ormus or of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East, with richest hand, How reverend is the face of this tall pile, 6. Our revels are now ended: these our actors, And like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, 7. 8. I am thy father's spirit; Doomed for a certain term to walk the night, Till the foul crimes, done in my days of nature, I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul; freeze thy young blood; And each particular hair to stand on end, To ears of flesh and blood:-List-list- list!— Earth yawned; he stood the center of a cloud: 66 'Why is my sleep disquieted? Who is he that calls the dead? Is it thou, O king? Behold, PE VI. PERSONATION. ERSONATION consists of those modulations, or changes of the voice, necessary to represent two or more persons as speaking, or to characterize objects and ideas. 2. Personation applies both to persons, either real or imaginary, and to things. When properly employed in reading dialogues and other pieces of a conversational nature, or in making sound, by skillful modulations, "an echo to the sense," it adds much to the beauty and efficiency of delivery. Personation Persons Things 3. The Student will exercise his discrimination and ingenuity in studying the character of persons or things to be represented, fully informing himself with regard to their peculiarities and conditions, and so modulate his voice as best to personate them. EXERCISES IN PERSONATION. Maud Muller looked and sighed: "Ah, me! He would dress me up in silks so fine, 2. The Judge looked back as he climbed the hill, |