Examples for the longest quantity' and fullest swell' of the median or smooth stress. "O liberty! O sound once delightful to every Roman ear! O sacred privilege of Roman citizenship! once sacred, trampled on !" "Ye crags and peaks, I'm with you once again ! How high you lift your heads into the sky! "Ye guards of liberty, I'm with you once again.” "The land that bore you—O! Do honor to her! Let her glory in Your breeding." "These are Thy glorious works, Parent of Good. Almighty Thine this universal frame, now Thus wondrous fair! Thyself how wondrous, then!” 6 Example for noble' but happy median stress.' "The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. "He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: He leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul." QUALITY OF VOICE. Quality of voice is 'pure' or 'impure.' It is pure' when all the breath used is vocalized. It is impure' or aspirated when only a part of the breath is vocalized. PRINCIPLE. Pure quality' should be used to express all pure ideas; that is, all good and agreeable ideas. Impure quality,' or aspirated, should be used to express all impure ideas; that is, all bad or disagreeable ideas. Examples of impure quality.' ་ Painful earnestness or anxiety demands this aspirated quality' with ' abrupt stress.' 1. "Take care! your very life is endangered !" 2. “Oh! 't was a fearsome sight! Ah me! 3. "While thronged the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering with white lips, "The foc! they come, they come !" 4. "He springs from his hammock, he flies to the deck, Amazement confronts him with images dire, Wild winds and mad waves drive the vessel a wreck: "Like mountains the billows tremendously swell: In vain the lost wretch calls on mercy to save; And the death-angel flaps his broad wing o'er the Extreme aspiration should mark the fear and horror in the following words of Macbeth. 6. "I am astonished, shocked, to hear such principles confessed, - to hear them avowed in this house, or in this country; - principles equally unconstitutional, inhuman, and unchristian!” 'Bold' and 'impassioned' examples for very abrupt stress and aspirated quality' on the emphatic words. 7. "It was the act of a coward, who raises his arm to strike, but has not the courage to give the blow! I will not call him villian, because it would be unparliamentary, and he is a privy councillor. I will not call him fool, because he happens to be chancellor of the exchequer. But I say he is one who has abused the privilege of parliament and freedom of debate, to the uttering of language which, if spoken out of the house, I should answer only with a blow! I care not how high his situation, how low his character, or how contemptible his speech; whether a privy councillor or a parasite, my answer would be a blow!” 8. "The wretch, who, after having seen the consequences of a thousand errors, continues still to blunder, and whose age has only added obstinacy to stupidity, is surely the object of either abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his gray hairs should secure him from insult." 9. "If ye are beasts, then stand here like fat oxen waiting for the butcher's knife." This quality of voice demands that the aspirates and the less resonant consonants be made very prominent in the enunciation, while the purer vowels and the liquid, pleasant consonants reserve their prominence till pure tone is required. All examples of aspirated quality' require abrupt stress. •Contemptuous and ironical' example. 10. "But base ignoble slaves, slaves to a horde Strong in some hundred spearmen, only great Examples of pure quality.' 1. a name." "That which befits us, imbosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness and courage, and the endeavor to realize our aspirations." Example of pure tone,' with lively, median stress 2. "It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles, and surely never lighted on this orb, which sho hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. "I saw her just above the horizon. decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendor, and joy." 'Lower pitch' and slower time.' Long quantity,' and prolonged median stress. 3. "O! what a revolution! and what a heart must I have to contemplate without emotion, that elevation and that fall! Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her, in a Nation of gallant men, in a Nation of men of honor, and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. "But the age of chivalry is gone, and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever." The following selection from Shelley's "To a Skylark." is full of rapturous beauty, and requires the purest tone and the smoothest and happiest median stress,' prolonged with swelling fulness on the emphatic words:— 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; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. "In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run, Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun. "All the earth and air With thy voice is loud, As, when night is bare, From one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed "What thou art, we know not; What is most like thee? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody. "Better than all measures Of delightful sound, That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground! "Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, From my lips would flow, The world should listen then, as I am listening now." • Noble' example for 'pure tone,' to be given also with full ▪median stress.' "We wish that this column, rising towards heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may |