of one emotion to that of another.

Some passages re

quire frequent and entire changes of every trait of voice, to keep up with the perpetually shifting effect of sentiment and expression, in the language of the composition. The following are but a few specimens of the requisite exercises in this department of elocution; but they may suffice to suggest the mode in which practice should be conducted.

INVOCATION OF LIGHT.-Milton.

Sublimity.

"Orotund Quality," Full Force, "Median Stress," ""Low" Pitch, Prevalent "Falling Inflection," and "Monotone," "Slow Movement," Long Pauses, Moderate Emphasis, Powerful "Expression."

"Hail holy Light! offspring of Heaven first-born, Or of the Eternal co-eternal beam

May I express thee unblamed? Since God is Light,
And never but in unapproached light

Dwelt from eternity; dwelt then in thee,
Bright effluence of bright essence increate!
Or hear❜st thou, rather, pure ethereal stream
Whose fountain who shall tell? Before the sun
Before the heavens thou wert, and, at the voice
Of God, as with a mantle didst invest

The rising world of waters, dark and deep,
Won from the void and formless infinite.
Thee I revisit now with bolder wing,

Escaped the Stygian pool, though long detained
In that obscure sojourn, while on my flight
Through utter and through middle darkness borne,
With other notes than to the Orphean lyre

I sung of chaos and eternal night,

Taught by the heavenly Muse to venture down
The dark descent, and up to re-ascend,

Though hard and rare. Thee I revisit safe,
And feel thy sovereign vital lamp.

Deep Pathos.

"Quality" as before, Force "Subdued," " Stress" as before, "Lowest" Pitch, "Semitone" and plaintive effect of "minor" intervals, "Slowest Movement," Pauses as before, Tender and subdued "Expression."

"But thou

Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain

To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn;
So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs,
Or dim suffusion veiled.

Tranquility, Solemnity, and Sublimity.

"Quality" as before, Force "Moderate," ," "Stress" as before, "Middle" Pitch, "Inflection " varied, "Movement" and Pauses "Moderate," "Expression" moderate.

"Yet not the more

Cease I to wander where the muses haunt
Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill;
Smit with the love of sacred song. But chief
Thee Zion, and the flowery brooks beneath,
That wash thy hallowed feet, and warbling flow,
Nightly I visit; nor sometimes forget

Those other two, equalled with me in fate,
(So were I equalled with them in renown,)
Blind Thamyris and blind Mæonides
And Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old;

Beauty, added to the preceding emotions.

"Quality" as before, Force softened, "Stress" as before, Pitch deepened, Prevalent "Monotone," "Movement" slower, Pauses longer, "Expression " ardent but gentle.

"Then feed on thoughts that voluntary move
Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird
Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid
Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year
Seasons return.

Deep Pathos.

"Quality" as before, Force "Subdued," "Stress" as before, Pitch "Low," Prevalent "Semitone" and occasional "Minor Thirds," "Movement Slow," Pauses long, "Expression" deeply plaintive "But not to me returns

Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn,
Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose,
Or flocks or herds, or human face divine;

Deep Grief and Melancholy.

"Aspirated Orotund Quality," Force "Suppressed," "Vanishing Stress," "Lowest " Pitch, Prevalent "Falling Inflection," "Slowest Movement," Long Pauses, Strong Emphasis, Intense “Expression."

"But cloud, instead, and ever during dark
Surround me, from the cheerful ways of men
Cut off; and, for the book of knowledge fair,
Presented with a universal blank

Of Nature's works, to me expunged and rased;
And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.

Sublime and Devout Aspiration.

"Pure Orotund Quality," Earnest and " 'Empassioned" Force "Median Stress," "Middle" Pitch, Prevalent "Falling Inflection," "Moderate Movement," Moderate Pauses, Strong Emphasis, Intense "Expression."

"So much the rather, thou, celestial Light,

Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers
Irradiate; there plant eyes; all mists from thence
Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell
Of things invisible to mortal sight!"

* The distinction between "suppressed” and “subdued” force, is that the latter is "pure," the former "aspirated." "Subdued" force merges the breath wholly in sound: "suppressed" force merges, partially, sound in breath, and causes a slightly hoarse or whispering effect to the ear.

SOLILOQUY OF SATAN.-Milton.

Hatred.

"Aspirated Orotund Quality," Intense Force, "Thorough Stress,”
Pitch varying from "Low" to " Middle,” Prevalent “Falling In-
flection," "Movement" varying from "Slow" to "Moderate,"
and thence to "Rapid," Pauses varying in length with the rate
of the "Movement," Intense Emphasis, and Fierce " Expression.”
"O thou, that with surpassing glory crowned,
Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god

Of this new world, at whose sight all the stars
Hid their diminished heads, to thee I call,
But with no friendly voice, and add thy name
O sun! to tell thee how I hate thy beams,

Regret.

"Pure Orotund Quality," Softened Force, "Median Stress," "Low" Pitch, Prevalent "Falling Inflection" of "Minor Third," "Slow Movement," Long Pauses, Subdued "Expression."

"That bring to my remembrance from what state

I fell, how glorious once! - above thy sphere,

Till pride and worse ambition threw me down,

Warring in heaven against heaven's matchless king.

Remorse.

Style, in all respects, as before, but "Expression" deepened in

"Ah! wherefore?

every trait.

He deserved no such return
Of me, whom he created what I was
In that bright eminence, and with his good
Upbraided none. Nor was his service hard.
What could be less than to afford him praise,
The easiest recompense, and pay him thanks
How due!-

Self-Reproach.

Style, as before, but deepened, and rendered more intense, through

out.

"Yet all his good proved ill in me,

And wrought but malice; lifted up so high,
I'sdained subjection, and thought one step higher
Would set me highest, and in a moment quit
The debt immense of endless gratitude
So burdensome, still paying, still to owe:
Forgetful what from him I still received;
And understood not that a grateful mind
By owing owes not, but still pays, at once
Indebted and discharged. What burden then?

Grief and Regret.

"Pure Orotund Quality," Intense but "Subdued" Force, "Vanishing" and tremulous "Stress," Pitch varying from "High" to “Middle,” “Plaintive Inflection" of "Minor Third,” “ Slow Movement," Long Pauses, "Expression" intense, but plaintive and subdued.

"Oh! had his powerful destiny ordained

Me some inferior angel, I had stood

Then happy; no unbounded hope had raised
Ambition!

Hesitation.

"Aspirated Orotund Quality," "Suppressed" Force, "Radical Stress," ," "High" Pitch, Prevalent "Falling Inflection," "Moderate Movement," Pauses Long, Earnest "Expression."

As great might have aspired, and me, though mean,
Drawn to his part.

Envy.

"Aspirated Pectoral and Guttural Quality," "Empassioned" Force, 'Explosive Radical Stress," "Low" Pitch, "Falling Inflection,"

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