2. O Thou! whose balance does the mountains weigh,
Whose will the wild tumultuous seas obey,

Whose breath can turn those watery worlds to flame,
That flame to tempest, and that tempest tame.

3. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day; The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea; The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. "Elegy in a Country Churchyard."

PAUSING

GRAY.

Pausing is of two kinds: Grammatical and Rhetorical. The grammatical pause indicates the synthetical structure of a sentence. The rhetorical pause gives greater clearness and expression to spoken language, by dividing words more particularly into groups.

1. How often, oh, how often,

In the days that had gone by,

I had stood on that bridge at midnight
And gazed on that wave and sky!

How often, oh, how often,

I had wished that the ebbing tide
Would bear me away on its bosom
O'er the ocean wild and wide!

"The Bridge."

2. Blow, blow, thou winter wind,

Thou art not so unkind

As man's ingratitude;

Thy tooth is not so keen,
Because thou art not seen,

Altho thy breath be rude.

LONGFELLOW.

Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky,
That dost not bite so nigh
As benefits forgot:
Tho thou the waters warp,
Thy sting is not so sharp,
As friend remember'd not.

"As You Like It."

SHAKESPEARE.

3. Nothing is more natural than to imitate (by the sound of the voice) the quality of the sound (or noise) which any external object makes, and to form its name accordingly. A certain bird is termed the Cuckoo, from the sound which it emits. When one sort of wind is said to WHISTLE, and another to ROAR; when a serpent is said to HISS, a fly to BUZZ, and falling timber to CRASH; when a stream is said to FLOW, and hail to RATTLE; the analogy between the word and the thing signified is plainly discernible. BLAIR.

4. The atrocious crime of being a young man, which, with so much spirit and decency, the honorable gentleman has charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny. PITT.

5. Forth march'd the chief, and, distant from the crowd, High on the rampart raised his voice aloud.

As the loud trumpet's brazen mouth from far,
With shrilling clangor sounds th' alarm of war;
So high his dreadful voice the hero rear'd;

Hosts dropp'd their arms, and trembled as they heard. "The Iliad."

HOMER.

6. Cæsar entered upon his head-a helmet upon his left arm— a shield upon his brow-a cloud in his right hand-his trusty sword in his eye-fire!

7. There is a tide in the affairs of men

Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
Omitted, all the voyage of their life

Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat,
And we must take the current when it serves
Or lose our ventures.

"Julius Cæsar."

SHAKESPEARE.

8. "Make way for liberty!" he cried,
Then ran with arms extended wide,
As if his dearest friend to clasp;
Ten spears he swept within his grasp.
"Make way for liberty!" he cried;
Their keen points met from side to side;
He bowed amongst them like a tree,
And thus made way for liberty.

"Arnold Winkelried.”

MONTGOMERY.

9. And I think, in the lives of most women and men, There's a moment when all would go smooth and even, If only the dead could find out when

To come back and be forgiven.

"Aux Italiens."

BULWER-LYTTON.

INFLECTION

Inflections are glides of the voice from one pitch to another, and may be Rising, Falling or Circumflex.

Rising inflection indicates suspension of sense, and is used in contingent and negative clauses, in interrogative clauses answered by "yes" or "no," in statements generally accepted as true, in language of entreaty and in parentheses. It is frequently used in expressions of love, tenderness and kindred feeling.

Falling inflection denotes completion of sense and is used in positive clauses, in interrogative clauses not answered by "yes" or "no," and in emphatic language.

Circumflex inflection is used in language of double meaning, irony, insinuation, etc.

Monotone, a single unvaried sound, may be used very effectively to express awe, reverence, dignity and power. It is particularly useful where a maximum amount of carrying power is desired, as in speaking in large buildings.

RISING INFLECTION

1. When you Athenians become a helpless rabble, without conduct, without property, without arms, without order, without unanimity; when neither general nor any other person hath the least respect for your decrees, when no man dares to inform you of this your condition, to urge the necessary reformation, much less to exert his influence to effect it: then is your constitution subverted. DEMOSTHENES.

2. If every ducat in six thousand ducats
Were in six parts, and every part a ducat,

I would not draw them: I would have my bond. "Merchant of Venice." SHAKESPEARE.

3. Tho he who excels in the graces of writing might have been, with opportunities and application, equally successful in those of conversation; yet, as many please by extemporary talk, tho utterly unacquainted with the more accurate method, and more labored beauties, which composition requires, so it is very possible that men wholly accustomed to works of study, may be without that readiness of conception, and affluence of language, always necessary to colloquial entertainment.

4. If a cool determined courage, that no apparently hopeless struggle could lessen or subdue,—if a dauntless resolution, that shone the brightest in the midst of the greatest difficulties and dangers, if a heart ever open to the tenderest affections of our nature and the purest pleasures of social intercourse,—if an almost child-like simplicity of character, that, while incapable of craft or dissimulation in itself, yet seemed to have an intuitive power of seeing and defeating the insidious designs and treacheries of others,-if characteristics such as these constitute their possessor a hero, then, I say, foremost in the rank of heroes shines the deathless name of Washington!

5. They tell us, sir, that we are weak,-unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs, and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemy shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power.

PATRICK HENRY.

6. Has our Maker furnished us with desires which have no correspondent objects, and raised expectations in our breasts with no other view than to disappoint them? Are we to be forever in search of happiness without arriving at it, either in this world or in the next? Are we formed with a passionate longing for immortality, and yet destined to perish after this short period of existence? Are we prompted to the noblest actions, and supported through life under the severest hardships and most trying temptations, by hopes of a reward which is visionary and chimerical?—by the expectation of praises which we are never to realize and enjoy?