private men, puts himself at the head of his broken

troops, - darts into the thick of the battle,

legions, and overthrows the enemy!

rescues his

5. Animated Didactic Style, in Public Discourse.

("Expulsive Orotund:" "Moderate" Force: Energetic "Radical" and "Median Stress.")

Blood, says the pride of life, is more honorable than money. Indigent nobility looks down upon untitled opulence. This sentiment pushed a little farther, leads to the point I am pursuing. Mind is the noblest part of man; and of mind, virtue is the noblest distinction.

Honest man, in the ear of Wisdom, is a grander name, is a more high-sounding title than peer of the realm, or prince of the blood. According to the eternal rules of celestial precedency, in the immortal heraldry of Nature. and of Heaven, Virtue takes place of all things. It is the nobility of angels! It is the majesty of God!

II. "LOW" PITCH.

This designation applies to the utterance of those feelings which we are accustomed to speak of as "deeper than ordinary. Low notes seem the only natural language of grave emotions, such as accompany deeply serious and impressive thoughts, grave authority, or austere manner.

EXAMPLES OF "LOW" PITCH.

1. Grave and Impressive Thought.

("Pure Tone:" "Moderate" Force: "Unimpassioned Radical” and Moderate "Median Stress.")

AGE.-Finlayson.

That no man can promise to himself perpetual exemption from suffering, is a truth obvious to daily observation. Nay, amid the shiftings of the scene in which we are placed, who can say that, for one hour, his happiness is

secure? The openings through which we may be assailed are so numerous and unguarded that the very next moment may see some message of pain piercing the bulwarks of our peace. Our body may become the seat of incurable disease. Our mind may become a prey to unaccountable and imaginary fears. Our fortune may sink in some of those revolutionary tempests which overwhelm so often the treasures of the wealthy. Our honors may wither on our brow, blasted by the slanderous breath of an enemy. Our friends may prove faithless in the hour of need, or they may be separated from us forever. Our children, the fondest hope of our hearts, may be torn from us in their prime; or they may wound us still more deeply by their undutifulness and

misconduct.

2. Rebuke.

("Vanishing Stress: " ") "Expulsive Orotund: " Declamatory" Force.)

CARDINAL WOLSEY TO NOBLES.

Shakespeare.

Now I feel

Of what coarse metal ye are moulded, — envy.
How eagerly ye follow my disgraces,

As if it fed ye! And how sleek and wanton
Ye appear in everything may bring my ruin!
Follow your envious courses, men of malice;
You have Christian warrant for them, and, no doubt,
In time will find their fit reward.

3. Grave, Austere, Authoritative Manner.

"Expulsive Orotund: ""Declamatory" Force: Firm "Median Stress.")

CATO, IN REPLY TO CESAR'S MESSAGE THROUGH DECIUS.

- Addison.

My life is grafted on the fate of Rome.
Would he save Cato, bid him spare his country.
Bid him disband his legions,

Restore the commonwealth to liberty,

Submit his actions to the public censure,

And stand the judgment of a Roman Senate,
Bid him do this, and Cato is his friend.

This designation applies to the notes of those emotions which are of the deepest character, and which are accordingly associated with the deepest utterance. These are chiefly, the following: deep solemnity, awe, amazement, horror, despair, melancholy, and deep grief.

EXAMPLES OF "VERY LOW" PITCH.

1. Deep Solemnity and Awe.

"Effusive and Expulsive Orotund: " "Subdued" Force: "Median Stress.")

HAMLET'S SOLILOQUY.- Shakespeare.

To be, or not to be, that is the question :
Whether 't is nobler in the mind, to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,

And by opposing end them? To die, to sleep, —
No more; and, by a sleep, to say we end

The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 't is a consummation

Devoutly to be wished. To die, - to sleep ;

To sleep! perchance to dream; —ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect,
That makes calamity of so long life:

For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin?

2. Deep Solemnity, Sublimity, and Awe.

"Effusive and Expulsive Orotund:" "Subdued and Suppressed" Force: "Median Stress.")

CATO, IN SOLILOQUY. — Addison.

It must be so ;

Plato, thou reasonest well!

Else, whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,
This longing after immortality?

Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror,
Of falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul
Back on herself, and startles at destruction?
'Tis the Divinity that stirs within us:

'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter,
And intimates Eternity to man.

Eternity! thou pleasing, - dreadful thought!
Through what variety of untried being,

Through what new scenes and changes must we pass!
The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before me;
But shadows, clouds, and darkness rest upon it.

IV. "HIGH PITCH.

The higher portion of the musical scale is associated with the notes of brisk, gay, and joyous emotions, with the exception of the extremes of pain, grief, and fear, which, from their preternaturally exciting power, compress and render rigid the organic parts that produce vocal sound, and cause the peculiarly shrill, convulsive cries and shrieks which express those passions.

To give the voice suppleness, pliancy, and mobility, much attention must be bestowed on practice for the regulation of pitch. The following examples should be carefully repeated in conjunction with the elements and detached words, till the "high pitch" of joy is perfectly at command.

EXAMPLES OF "HIGH" PITCH.

1. Delight.

ODE TO A SKYLARK. — Shelley.

("Expulsive Orotund: " 'Impassioned" Force: Expulsive "Median Stress.")

Hail, to thee, blithe spirit!
Bird thou never wert,
That from Heaven, or near it,
Pourest thy full heart

In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.

Higher still, and higher,

From the earth thou springest,

Like a cloud of fire;

The deep blue thou wingest,

And singing still, dost soar, and soaring, ever singest.

2.

("Pure Tone:" "High" Pitch: "Loud" Force.)

THE ODE ON THE PASSIONS.-Collins.

But oh how altered was its sprightlier tone, When Cheerfulness, a nymph of healthiest hue, — Her bow against her shoulder flung,

Her buskins gemmed with morning dew, —

Blew an inspiring air, that dale and thicket rung,

The hunter's call, to Faun and Dryad known.

The oak-crowned Sisters, and their chaste-eyed Queen, Satyrs and Sylvan boys, were seen

Peeping from forth their alleys green:

Brown Exercise rejoiced to hear,

And Sport leaped up, and seized his beechen spear.

Last came Joy's ecstatic trial

He, with viny crown advancing,

First to the lively pipe his hand addressed;

But soon he saw the brisk awakening viol,