of beauty and ornament is poured forth on the face of nature! What a magnificent spectacle presented to the view of man! What supply contrived for his wants! What a variety of objects set before him to gratify his senses, to employ his understanding, to entertain his imagination, to cheer and gladden his heart! Indeed, the very existence of the universe is a standing goodness of the Creator. memorial of the EXERCISE XIII. RULE 10. When excessive joy is accompanied by strong excitement, it should be read on an elevated key, and sometimes even on the shouting pitch, with the prevailing falling inflection. Excessive Joy. 1. Ye crags and peaks, I'm with you once again! I hold to you the hands you first beheld, To show they still are free. Methinks I hear And bid your tenant welcome to his home QUESTION. What the rule for excessive joy accompanied by strong excite ment? 2. Go ring the bells, and fire the guns, Give back their cradle shout: Of honor, liberty, and fame; "To arms! they come! the Greek! the Greek!” Narrative. He woke to die 'midst flame, and smoke, Shouting. "Strike- till the last armed foe expires; Boz-zar-is, (Marco,) a Grecian commander, who fell in an attack on the Turks at Lapsi, August 20th, 1823. He expired in the moment of victory. EXERCISE XIV. RULE 11. The language of anger, vexation, excessive bodily pain, unsuppressed fear, aların, and terror; is loud, high, vehement, and rapid in movement, varying, however, according to the intensity of excitement. The falling inflection prevails in the expression of these emotions. NOTE. The language of suspicion, apprehension, and suppressed tear, usually requires a suppressed voice, or an aspirated under-tone, combined with the tremor or intermittent stress. Impatience, Anger, and Contempt. Brutus. Go to; you are not Cassius.* Cassius. I am. Bru. I say you are not. Cas. Urge me no more; I shall forget myself: Have mind upon your health; tempt me no further. Bru. Away, slight man! Cas. Is 't possible? Bru. Hear me, for I will speak. Must I give way and room to your rash choler? Shall I be frightened when a madman stares? Cas. Must I endure all this? Bru. All this? ay, more. break: Fret till your proud heart Go, show your slaves how choleric you are, And make your bondmen tremble. Must I budge? Under your testy humor? QUESTION. What is the rule for the language of anger, vexation, fear, alarm, and terror? *Cas'si-us (Cafus,) the friend of Brutus, and a conspirator against Cæsar. You shall digest the venom of your spleen, Cas. Is it come to this? Bru. You say, you are a better soldier: Let it appear so; make your vaunting true, And it shall please me well. For mine own part, I shall be glad to learn of noble men. Cas. You wrong me every way—you wrong me, Brutus: I said an elder soldier, not a better: Did I say better? I Bru. If you did, I care not. Cas. When Cæsar lived, he durst not thus have moved me. Bru. Peace, peace; you durst not so have tempted him. Cas. I durst not? Bru. No. Cas. What! durst not tempt him? Bru. For your life you durst not. Cas. Do not presume too much upon my love; may do that I shall be sorry for. you Bru. You have done that should be sorry There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats; For I am armed so strong in honesty, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring To you for gold to pay my legions, for. Was that done like Cassius? Should I have answered Caius Cassiàs so? Dash him to pieces! Cas. I denied you not. Bru. You did. Cas. I did not; - he was but a fool That brought my answer back. Brutus hath rived my heart, A friend should bear a friend's infirmities; But Brutus makes mine greater than they are. Bru. I do not, till you practice them on me. Cas. You love me not. Bru. I do not like your faults. Cas. A friendly eye could never see such faults. Bru. A flatterer's would not, though they did appear As huge as high Olympus.* Pain, Alarm, and Unsuppressed Fear. 1. Search there; nay, probe me; search my Pull-draw it out wounded reins; Oh! I am shot! A forked, burning arrow Sticks across my shoulders; the sad venom flies A bolt of ice runs hissing through my body; 2. But ere we could arrive the point proposed, * O-lym'pus, a celebrated mountain in Thessaly, the top of which, Homer represents as the dwelling of the gods. |