As not behind in hate, if what was urg'd, 5 When he, who most excels in fact of arms, Of all his aim, after some dire revenge. 15 Scorning surprise. Or could we break our way 25 Th' almighty Victor to spend all his rage, 30 To perish rather, swallow'd up and lost EXERCISE 17. Aside the Devil turn'd For envy, yet with jealous leer malign Milton. Ey'd them askance, and to himself thus plain'd. 40 Imparadis'd in one another's arms, The happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill Of bliss on bliss; while I to Hell am thrust, 5 Yet let me not forget what I have gain'd 10 Suspicious, rèasonless! Why should their Lord 15 O fair foundation laid whereon to build They taste and die; what likelier can ensue? .. are to succeed." 30 (°) So saying, his proud step he scornful turn'd, But with sly circumspection, and began, Through wood, through waste, o'er hill, o'er dale his roam. Milton. EXERCISE 18. Page 27. bottom. Difference between the common and the intensive inflection. I place this here, rather than under Inflections, because, intensive slide so often stands connected with emphasis. The difficulty to be avoided may be seen sufficiently in an example or two. There is a general tendency to make the slide of the voice as great in degree, when there is little stress, as when there is much; whereas, in the former case, the slide should be gentle, and sometimes hardly perceptible. Common slide. To play with important truths; to disturb the repose of established ténets; to subtilize objéctions; and elude proof, is too often the sport of youthful vanity, of which maturer experience commonly repènts. Were the miser's repentance upon the neglect of a good bárgain; his sorrow for being over-réached; his hope of improving a súm; and his fear of falling into want; directed to their proper objects, they would make so many Christian graces and virtues. Intensive slide. Consider, I beseech you, what was the part of a faithful citizen? of a prudent, an active, and an honest minister? Was he not to secure Eubœa, as our defence against all attacks by séa? Was he not to make Beotia our barrier on the mídland side? The cities bordering on Peloponnesus our bulwark on that quarter? Was he not to attend with due precaution to the importation of corn, that this trade might be protected, through all its progress, up to our own hárbours? Was he not to cover those districts which we commanded, by seasonable detachments, as the Proconesus, the Chersonesus, and Ténedos? To exert himself in the assémbly for this purpose, while with equal zeal he laboured to gain others to our interest and alliance, as Byzantium, Abydus, and Euboea? - Was he not to cut off the best, and most important resources of our enemies, and to supply those in which our country was deféctive?-And all this you gained by my counsels, and my administration. EXERCISES ON MODULATION. The reader will be able from the following examples, to choose those which are appropriate to rotundity of voice, fulness, loudness, time, rhetorical pause, &c. To assist in cultivating the bottom of the voice, I have selected examples of sublime or solemn description, which admit of but little inflection; and some which contain the figure of simile. Where the mark for low note is inserted, the reader will take pains to keep down his voice, and to preserve it in nearly the grave monotone. 1. (.) 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.He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.At the brightness that was before him, his thick clouds pàssed, hailstones and coals of fire. - The Lord also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voicè; hailstones and coals of fire. 2. (.) And then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven; and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of Man, coming in the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory.--And he shall send his angels, with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. 3. (.) And the heaven departed as a scroll, when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. 2 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bond-man, and every free-man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; 3 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:-For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand? 4. And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat upon it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. 5 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. 6 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. 5. 'Tis listening Fear and dumb Amazement all: The Thunder raises his tremendous voice. 5 The lightnings flash a larger curve, and more Enlarging, deep'ning, mingling peal on peal 6. 'Twas then great Marlb'rough's mighty soul was prov'd, 15 That in the shock of charging hosts unmov'd, 20 Inspir'd repuls'd battalions to engage, 25 Calm and serene he drives the furious blast; 7. Rous'd from his trance, he mounts with eyes aghast, When o'er the ship, in undulation vast, 35 And fatal lightnings blast the hostile shores; |