It must be so': 'tis not for self`
That we so tremble on the brink';
And', striving to o'erleap the gulf',
Yet cling to being's severing link.
Oh'! in that future let us think'

To hold each heart the heart that shares.
With them the immortal waters drink',

And', soul in soul', grow deathless theirs.,

SECTION VII.

Musick.-SHAKSPEARE.

There's naught so stockish', hard`, and full of rage',
But musick', for the time', doth change its nature`.
The man that hath no musick in himself',
And is not moved with concord of sweet sounds',

Is fit for treasons', stratagems', and spoils;

The motions of his spirit', are dull as night,
And his affections', dark as Erebus':-

Let no such man be trusted'.

Mercy. IB.

The quality of mercy is not strained';
It droppeth as the gentle dew from heaven
Upon the place beneath: it is twice blessed';
It blesseth him that gives', and him that takes`.
'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown':
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power',
The attribute to awe and majesty',

Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
But mercy is above this sceptred sway':
It is enthroned in the heart of kings';

It is an attribute to God himself`;

And earthly power doth show most like to God's
When mercy seasons justice`.

Solitude.-IB.

Are not these wōōds'..

More free from peril than the envious courts'?
Here feel we but the penalty of Adam`,

render them all as regular iambuses—a thing not at all designed by the poet-but this would be a gross dereliction from every principle of correct taste, and be apt to degenerate into a singsong, or mere gingling of rhymes.

REMARKS ON SECTIONS VII. AND VIII.

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Final Pause. In reading the first selection in section 8th, the final pause is demanded at "bow," " appear," survey," 'scene," and "repair;" but in the selection of blank verse from Pollok, which follows it,

The seasons' difference; as the icy fang',
And churlish chiding of the winter's wind';
Which', when it bites and blows upon my body',
Even till I shrink with côld', I smîle', and sây',
"THIS'.. is no flâttery': THESE'. . are counsellors
That feelingly persuade me what I am`.
Swêêt are the uses of adversity;

Which', like the tôad`, ugly and venomous',
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head`;

And this'.. our life', exempt from publick haunt',
Finds tongues in trees, books.. in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones', and GOOD'.. in every thing.".

SECTION VIII.

Anticipation.-CAMPBELL.

At summer eve', when heaven's aerial bōw'
Spans with bright arch the glittering hills below',
Why to yon mountain turns the musing eye',
Whose sunbright summit mingles with the sky'?
Why do those cliffs of shadowy teint appear'
More sweet than all the landscape smiling near` ?-
'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view',
And robes the mountain in its azure hue'.
Thus', with delight', we linger to survey'
The promised joys of life's unmeasured way`;
Thus', from afar', each dim-discovered scene'
More pleasing seems than all the past hath been`;
And every form that fancy can repair
From dark oblivion', glows divinely there'.

The Miser.-POLLOK.

But there is one in folly farther gone,
With eye awry, incurable', and wild',-
The laughing-stock of demons and of men',
And by his guardian angel quite given up`-

The miser, who', with dust inanimate

Holds wedded intercourse'. Ill guided wretch'!
Thou mayst have seen him at the midnight hour'—
When good men sleep', and in light winged dreams
Send up their souls to God'-in wasteful hall',
With vigilance and fasting worn to skin

as well as in the three selections from Shakspeare, in section 7th, no such pause is allowable: see pages 140 and 141.

In the selection from Pollok, section 8th, the intervening adjunct beginning with the phrase, "The laughing-stock," and ending with, quite given up," and that, likewise, commencing with, "When good men sleep," and closing with, "their souls to God," should both be pronounced in a lower tone than the rest of the paragraph, though not quite so low as is ordinarily adopted in pronouncing the parenthetick clause

And bone', and wrapped in most debasing rags-
Thou mayst have seen him bending o'er his heaps,
And holding strange communion with his gold';
And as his thievish fancy seems to hear

The night-man's foot approach', starting alarmed',
And in his old', decrepit, withered hand',
That palsy shakes', grasping the yellow earth
To make it sure'. Of all God made upright',
And in their nostrils breathed a living soul',

Most fallen', most prone', most earthly', most debased';
Of all that sell eternity for time',

None bargain on so easy terms with death'.

Illustrious fôôl! Nây, most inhuman wretch'!

He sits among his bags', and', with a look

Which hell might be ashamed of', drives the poor
Away unalmsed, and midst abundance dies',
Sorest of evils'! dies of utter want'.

PROMISCUOUS PIECES.

SECTION 1.

Hamlet's reflections on Yorick's scull.-SHAKSPEARE.

ALAS', poor Yorick"!-I knew him', well', Horatio': a fellow of infinite jest', of most excellent fancy'. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times'; and now', how abhorred in my imagi. nation is this scull'! My gorge rises at it'. Here hung those lips that I have kissed', I know not how oft'. Where are your gibes',* now? your gambols'? your songs'? your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one', now', to mock your own grinning'? quite chap-fallen'? Now get you to my lady's chamber', and tell her', if she paint an inch thick', yet to this favourt she must come.'

Note. In order to promote the attainment of good reading, the author begs leave once more to insist on the importance of teachers' requiring their pupils to read each section many times over, even until they can enunciate it both accurately and eloquently, before they are allowed to proceed to another section. It should be borne in mind, that the higher degrees of excellence in Elocution, are to be gained, not by reading much, but by pronouncing what is read with a strict regard to the nature of the subject, the structure of the sentences, the turn of the sentiment, and a correct and judicious application of the rules of the science.

SECTION II.

Reflections on the Tomb of Shakspeare.—IRVING.

As I crossed the bridge over the Avon on my return', I paused to contemplate the distant church in which Shakspeare lies buried', and could not but exult in the malediction which has kept his ashes undisturbed in its quiet and hallowed vaults'.

What honour could his name have derived from being mingled', in dusty companionship', with the epitaphs', and escutcheons', and venal eulogiums of a titled multitude'? What would a crowded corner in Westminster Abbey have been', compared with this reverend pile', which seems to stand in beautiful loneliness as his sole mausoleum'! The solicitude about the grave', may be but the offspring of an overwrought sensibility'; but human nature is made up of foibles and prejudices'; and its best and tenderest affections are mingled with these factitious feelings'. He who has sought renown about the world', and has reaped a full harvest of worldly favour', will find', after all', that there is no love', no admiration', no applause', so sweet to the soul as that which springs up in his native place'. It is there that he seeks to be gathered in peace and honour', among his kindred and his early friends'. And when the weary heart and the failing head begin to warn him that the evening of life is drawing on', he turns as fondly as does the infant to its mother's arms', to sink to sleep in the bosom of the scene of his childhood'.

How would it have cheered the spirit of the youthful bard', when', wandering forth in disgrace upon a doubtful world', he cast back a heavy look upon his paternal home', could he have foreseen', that', before many years', he should return to it covered with renown'; that his name would become the boast and the glory of his native place'; that his ashes would be religiously guarded as its most precious treasure'; and that its lessening spire', on which his eyes were fixed in tearful contemplation', would one day become the beacon', towering amidst the gentle landscape', to guide the literary pilgrim of every nation to his tomb'!

SECTION III.

On Studies.-LORD BACON.

(Those words put in Italicks, are emphatical. Two dots (..) denote the shortest rhetorical pause; three dots, (.......) a longer pause, and so on.)

STUDIES'. serve for delight', for ornament', and for ability' Their chief use for delight', is'. . in retired privacy'; for ornament', in discourse'; and for ability', in the arrangement and disposition of business': for expert men can execute', and', peraEs-kutsh'inz. Màw-so-lè'ům. In'fant-not, in'funt. not, buz'um. Lånd'skåpe-not, land’skip.

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