-. Repetition of words and phrases, and any succession of ticulars, generally require force of utterance increasing h the repetition or emphasis of the cumulative kind. The whole summit of the hill, which commanded the city, zed like a volcano. Not a breeze whispered, not a bird flapped its wings. The horrors of war were the burden of his song. Christianbears all the marks of a divine original. 2. Interjections and Exclamations. OH! SACRED TRUTH! thy triumph ceased a while. How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood. O CALEDONIA! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child. SWEET TEVIOT! on thy silver tide O FOOLS! and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets ve written concerning me! They shouted; FRANCE! SPAIN! ALBION! VICTORY! This is the main point, - not universal progress, but human not progress everywhere, but progress somewhere. Crafty men contemn studies; simple men admire them. Contemporaries appreciate the man, rather than the merit ; at posterity will regard the merit, rather than the man. We are not to inquire into the justice or injustice, the onor or dishonor,* of the deed; nor whether it was lawful unlawful,* wise or unwise.* What i To any suspension of the voice in discourse, longer than a momentary rest, the term pause is applied. The pauses required in order clearly to display the sentiment and thought are called rhetorical, to distinguish them from the grammatical points, which relate simply to the grammatical construction of words and sentences. The pauses peculiar to poetry, and designed to increase the beauty and melody of verse, are termed harmonic. These are usually considered as two; the one being called the casural, and the other the final harmonic pause. The punctuation marks denote only incidentally the places of either the rhetorical or harmonic rests of the voice; being together by much the most numerous, while the former, especially the comma, occurs sometimes where there should be no pause in reading or speaking. Nor can the length of any required stop be inferred with much certainty from the common stop mark used. At the same stop mark in different situations, though in near connection, the intervals of rest may materially vary. The length of pauses is not fixed and invariable, and so cannot be brought under precise rules. There are, however, a few general principles which may be safely observed as far as they have application. 1. One is, that pause should be proportioned to the rate of utterance-the intervals of rest being comparatively long when the rate is slow, and short when it is quick. 2. Another is, that the relative length of pause must be modified by the degree of connection in the thought, and by the completeness of the sense. Thus the pause at the end of a sentence must usually be two or three times longer than those separating its parts; and that at the end of a paragraph, several times longer than those between its sentences. So, also, the closer the connection of sense between clauses, sentences, or paragraphs, the shorter comparatively must be their intervening pauses. 3. A third principle is, that a pause may be lengthened in proportion to the degree of emphasis which may happen to accompany it. What is meant by pause? Which are rhetorical pauses? To what do the grammatical points relate? Name the pauses peculiar to poetry. Can the length of a pause be told by the stop mark? Is there any fixed length for pauses? To what should the length of pauses be proportioned? By what RULES FOR RHETORICAL AND HARMONIC PAUSES. 1. A pause is required after the nominative case, when it onsists of more than one word, or is emphatic. 2. An adjective, placed after its noun, should be separated om it by a short pause. 3. Before the relative pronouns, who, which, that and what, pause is generally necessary. 4. There should be a pause before a verb in the infinitive ode, depending upon another verb. 5. Before conjunctions, prepositions, or adverbs of time and militude, a pause is usually required. 6. Before and after an intervening phrase, there should be short pause. 7. A pause is required between the parts of a sentence hich may be transposed. 8. After words placed in opposition to each other, there hould be a pause. 9. A slight pause should mark an ellipsis, or an omission of 10. A long pause may be made before or after a word or ause expressive of intense feeling or solemn emotion. 11. The casural pause occurs at or near the middle, and le final pause at the end, of a poetic line. What is rule first? Rule second? Rule third? Rule fourth? Rule th? Rule sixth 2 Rule seventh ? Rule eighth 2 Rule ninth ? Rule |