Dull, cold-heavy and low-to be pronounced as if a comma was placed between the two words.

Perhaps in this neglected fpot is laid

Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire, Hands, that the rod of empire might have sway'd,

Hands to raife the voice at this word, with a fhort pause, ere you proceed, gives a great beauty to the line.

THE LAST LINE IN THE 13TH VERSE.

And froze the genial current of the foul.

The words marked to be spoken with care and deliberation. We have nothing further to remark until we

come to

VERSE 22, LAST LINE.

Nor caft one longing ling'ring look behind.

longing ling'ring-These ought to be particularly marked, especially the last, which, to give it its full force, must be delivered in a flow, dragging tone of voice, if we may fo exprefs ourselves.

On fome fond breast the parting foul relies,

Some pious drops the clofing eye requires;

Thefe lines ought to be fpoken in a plaintive tone, as evidently conveying the full effect and meaning intended

by the author. The remainder we leave to the taste and judgment of the scholar, particularly recommending him never to lofe fight of that folemn mournful tone of utterance, throughout the whole, which impreffes the hearer with that awful gravity fo plainly the intention of the Poet.

In the delivery of fome paffages fo much depends upon fuch a nicety of expression, look, and manner in the reader, as we before observed in our advertisement, that it will be impoffible for us upon paper to point out the exact method. Graces like thefe, which give, perhaps, the greatest beauty, and we may say a kind of bewitching ornament to a poem, cannot be methodized into rule, but must be left to the mind and genius of the reader to find out; and we do not despair but that in the course of our progrefs through this work we shall materially affift him in the refearth.

HOW TO READ

OTHELLO's APOLOGY TO THE SENATE.

MOST potent, grave, and reverend figniors,

To be delivered in a slow-reffectful, and deliberate

manner.

My very noble and approv'd good masters;
That I have ta'en away this old man's daughter,
It is most true;

Thefe

These marked words in a manner expreffive of a modeft ingenuous confeffion.

true, I have married her;

True with a voice a little higher than the juft preceding words, with a short sudden pause, still keeping up the tone, as if something elfe was to follow, and then proceed.

The very head and front of my offending

Hath this extent; no more. Rude am I in fpeech,
And little bleft with the foft phraje of peace;

These words, if delivered, although not directly in echo to the sense, in a soft, perfuafive manner, have an effect peculiarly pleasing, and which was the method the late Mr. Barry adopted with fuch amazing fuccefs.

For fince these arms of mine had feven years pith,

Till now fome nine moons wafted, they have us'd
Their dearest action in the tented field;

Thefe three lines, fpoken in a bold, energetic tone, form a fine contrast to the manner we advised the preceding marked words to be delivered.

And little of this great world can I fpeak

More than pertains to feats of broils and battle;

Bold and forcible.

And therefore,

keeping your voice up and stopping a little, then gently falling to the remainder of the line,

In fpeaking for myfelf. Yet, by your patience,
I will a round unvarnifh'd tale deliver,

Of my whole course of love,

in a frank and open manner.

what drugs, what charms,

What conjuration, and what mighty magic,

here keep your

voice up as above.

(For fuch proceedings I am charg'd witha!)

In a lower tone, and in a more eafy, careless delivery.

I won his daughter with.

Her father lov'd me, oft invited me;

Still queftioning me the story of my life,
From year to year; the battles, fieges, fortunes,
That I have paft.

Battles, fieges, fortunes. The two first of these ought to be delivered with ftrength and boldness, the laft with a kind of half figh, as if infinuating the various viciffitudes and changes he had experienced.

I ran it thro' ev'n from my boyish days To the very moment that he bade me tell it. Wherein I fpoke of most disaftrous chances, Difaftrous-spoken with a gentle motion of the head, as if you were to pronounce emphatically the word unlucky.

Of moving accidents by flood and field;

Of hair-breadth "fcapes in th' imminent deadly breach,

Immi

Imminent-If you speak this word with the voice a little higher and a short paufe ere you proceed, you will find it of confiderable advantage to the line. We have remarked two or three times before, where this method may be practifed with great effect, and Mr. Garrick ufed to be particularly fortunate in the frequent use of it. It will be impoffible for us to mark every word where it may be introduced with propriety, the number being fo great. The genius of the reader in many places muft find them out, and we will occafionally. refresh his recollection as we go on.

Of being taken by the infolent foe,
And fold to flavery;

These lines ought to be delivered in rather a plaintive tone, as if expreffing with forrow and regret that part of his fufferings.

of my redemption thence;

Of battles bravely, hardly fought;

Bravely, hardly-Here is a fine opportunity of raising the voice, and paufing a fhort time ere you proceed, as mentioned above-hardly ought to be pronounced affectingly and with pathos.

of victories,

For which the conquerors mourn'd fo many fell.

The marked words with plaintiveness and feeling.

Sometimes I told the ftory of a fiege,

Wherein I had to combat plagues and famine.