Divided pair! forgive the wrong, Confiderable emotions must arise in the breast, on hearing this well read. If you reach the heart, you need no better criterion by which you may judge of your merit in reading it. In The full, low, manly tone of voice is so abfolutely neceffary in those who wish to excel in reading, that we fhall give the scholar a poem in which he may practise it to the greateft advantage and effect. perufing moft poetical productions, if you occafionally introduce it, it gives a richness and variety that afford a confiderable delight. In the compofition we are now about to recommend to the reader, this particular quality may be exercised throughout every part of it, without the leaft fear of violating the meaning or fpirit of the poet. OUR SAVIOUR's PASSION. The Author not known, LET there be a dignified folemnity in your voice, and your look accord with the gravity of the fcene. let BEHOLD th'astonish'd fun starts back, No light his blacken'd beams difplay; Dark Darkness her fable wing expands, No moon, the lovely queen of night, Now you must be peculiarly folemn, and your voice very low and full. One dark, black, difmal gloom of clouds And veils the univerfal whole. See how the rending clouds divide! And grumble thro' the angry sky. Mark those words in particular that keep up the awful grandeur of the fcene-fuch as forky lightnings," 66 66 glaring," awful thunders," "grumble," "angry," and all those of the fame kind, The frighted rocks are burft in twain; The furges of the bellowing deep. Mark Mark all thofe kind of words which we before recommended-fuch as "frighted rocks," "yawning earth," "furious whirlwinds," "bellowing deep," &c. &c. Thou deep! why doft thou lafh the shore? Why do the dead awake? Ye hills! why do ye shake? Why burst with opening wide? Involv'd in gloom and night? You must read these various questions with as much variety as you can; ftill, of course, preserving the folemn grandeur that breathes through the whole. Now look up with a degree of awe and dread. See yonder! where the Lord of Life, His flesh is furrow'd with the rod! Ала And now, O! horror-bearing scene! The executioner extends! For this, the dead awake; For this, the lightnings flame; For this, convulfions tear the universal frame. The laft line with great deliberation and energy. The four ORIENTAL ECLOGUES by Mr. COLLINS, have been long admired for their great poetical merit, and we think they afford many and various opportunities for a reader of nice difcrimination to exert his powers with confiderable effect. We fhall, therefore, here infert them; particularly advising, in the perufal, an even regular tone of expreffion, and a Smooth 3 fmoothness of delivery, which will well accord with the peculiar harmony of the verfe in which thefe beautiful compositions are written. ECLOGUE I. SELLM, OR THE SHEPHERD'S MORAL. Scene, a Valley near Bagdat. Time, the Morning. As you will have to lower your voice after the fix first lines, you had better begin on a little higher key than you otherwife would.-Observe the fmoothness of tone which we before recommended, and carefully avoid any thing like a check or jerk in your voice, but let it flow, as it were, like a regular and uniform stream, "YE Perfian maids, attend your poet's lays, "Well may your hearts believe the truths I tell; When |