2. THE OROTUND is a full, deep, round, and pure tone of voice, peculiarly adapted to the expression of sublime and pathetic emotions.

1.

EXAMPLES.

'Tis midnight's holy hour-and silence now

Is brooding like a gentle spirit o'er

The still and pulseless world. Hark! on the winds
The bell's deep tones are swelling,-'tis the knell

Of the departed year!

3. THE ASPIRATED TONE of voice is not a pure, vocal sound, but rather a forcible breathing utterance, and is used to express amazement, fear, terror, anger, revenge, remorse, and fervent emotions.

EXAMPLES.

1. Oh, coward conscience, how dost thou affright me !

2.

The lights burn blue. It is now dead midnight;

Cold, fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh.

For this, of all their wrongs the worst
Great Spirit, let them be accursed.

4. THE GUTTURAL QUALITY is a deep, aspirated tone of voice, used to express aversion, hatred, loathing, and contempt.

1.

2.

EXAMPLES.

Thou worm! thou viper! to thy native earth
Return! Away! Thou art too base for man
To tread upon! Thou scum! Thou reptile!
Tell me I hate the bowl?

Hate is a feeble word:
I loathe, abhor, my very soul

With strong disgust is stirred,
Whene'er I see, or hear, or tell,
Of the dark beverage of hell!

QUESTIONS.-What, of the Orotund voice? Give an example of the Orotund voice. Describe the Aspirated Tone of voice. What is it used to express? Give examples. What is said of the Guttural Quality? Give examples.

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REMARK. Whenever a habit of reading or speaking in a nasal, shrill, harsh, or rough tone of voice is contracted by the pupil, no pains should be spared in eradicating it, and in securing a clear, full, round, and flexible tone.

(p.)

(f.)

Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows,
And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows;
But when loud surges lash the sounding shore,
The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar.

(87.)

(=)

When Ajax strives some rocks vast weight to throw,
The line, too, labors, and the words move slow;
Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain,

(99)

Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main.

Quick! Man the boat! Away they spring

The stranger ship to aid,

And loud their hailing voices ring,

As rapid speed they made.

(<) Shall man, the possessor of so many noble faculties, with all the benefits of learning and experience, have less memory, less gratitude, less sensibility to danger than the beasts! (<) Shall man, bearing the image of his Creator, sink thus low?

(=)

Speeds the blithe tone, and wakes an answer up

In rock and forest, till the vale hath talked

With all its tongues, and in the fastnesses

(>)

(sl.)

(pp.)

(Po.)

(f.)

(0°)

(f.)

Of the far dingle, (p.) faint and (pp.) fainter heard,
Dies the last sullen echo.

He said, and on the rampart hights arrayed
His trusty warriors, few, but undismayed;
Firm-paced and slow, a horrid front they form,
Still as the breeze, (oo) but dreadful as the storm!
Low, murmuring sounds along their banners fly,
REVENGE, OF DEATH!-the watchword and reply;
Then pealed the notes, omnipotent to charm,
And the loud tocsin tolled their last alarm!

Campbell

(sl.) At length o'er Columbus slow consciousness breaks,

(0°) "LAND! LAND !" cry the sailors; (f.) "LAND! LAND!-he awakes,

('') He runs,-yes! behold it! it blesseth his sight!

The land! O dear spectacle! transport! delight!

(sl.) His speech was at first low-toned and slow. Sometimes his voice would deepen, (oo) like the sound of distant thunder; and anon, ('') his flashes of wit and enthusiasm would light up the anxious faces of his hearers, (<) like the far-off lightning of a coming storm.

He woke to hear his sentry's shriek,

(0°) TO ARMS! they come, (f.) the GREEK! the GREEK!

(0°)

Huzza for the sea! the all-glorious sea!
Its might is so wondrous, its spirit so free!

And its billows beat time to each pulse of my soul,
Which, impatient, like them, can not yield to control.

Away! away! o'er the sheeted ice,

Away! away! we go;

On our steel-bound feet we move as fleet

As deer o'er the Lapland snow.

SECTION V.

THE RHETORICAL PAUSE.

RHETORICAL PAUSES are those which are frequently required by the voice in reading and speaking, although the construction of the passage admits of no grammatical pause.

These pauses are as manifest to the ear, as those which are made by the comma, semicolon, or other grammatical pauses, though not commonly denoted in like manner by any visible sign. In the following examples they are denoted thus, ( | ).

EXAMPLES.

1. And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide,

But through them there rolled not the breath of his pride;
And the foam of his gasping|| lay white on the turf,

And cold as the spray of the rock-beaten surf.

This pause is generally made before or after the utterance of some important word or clause, on which it is especially desired to fix the attention. In such cases it is usually denoted by the use of the dash

EXAMPLES.

1. Earth's highest station ends in~" HERE HE LIES!"

2.

And, lo! the rose, in crimson dressed,

Leaned sweetly on the lily's breast,
And blushing, murmured-"LIGHT!"

3. The path of wisdom is—THE WILL OF GOD.

4.

There, in his dark, carved oaken chair

Old Rudiger sat―DEAD!

A. G. Greene.

QUESTIONS.-What are Rhetorical Pauses ? What is said of this pause? Give an example. When is the Rhetorical Pause generally made? Give examples.