A moment there was awful pause— 66 When Berkeley cried, Cease, traitor! cease; The other shouted, "Nay, not so, When God is with our righteous cause; His holiest places then are ours."-T. B. Read. BRUTUS. How ill this taper burns! Ha! who comes here? I think it is the weakness of mine eyes That shapes this monstrous apparition. It comes upon me. Art thou anything? Art thou some god, some angel, or some devil, That makest my blood cold and my hair to stare? Speak to me what thou art. GHOST. Thy evil spirit, Brutus. BRU. Why comest thou? GHOST. To tell thee thou shalt see me at Philippi. BRU. Well; then I shall see thee again? GHOST. Aye, at Philippi. BRU. Why, I will see thee at Philippi, then. [Exit GHOST.] Now I have taken heart, thou vanishest: Ill spirit, I would hold more talk with thee. While the Union lasts, we have high, exciting, gratifying prospects spread out before us, for us and our children. Beyond that I seek not to penetrate the veil. God grant that, in my day at least, that curtain may not rise! God grant that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind! When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance, rather, behold gorgeous ensign of the Republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a single star obscured-bearing for its motto no such miserable interrogatory as What is all this worth?" nor those other words of delusion and folly, "Liberty first, and Union afterwards"-but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment-dear to every true American heart-LIBERTY and UNION, now and forever, ONE AND INSEPARABLE!-Webster. LESSON XXXVII: Articulation.-Continued.-Difficult The following list of words and sentences contains specimens of nearly every difficult combination of consonant-sounds that you are likely to meet in reading. Some are, of course, very rarely found, but all should be practised in order to attain flexibility and accuracy in the use of the agents of articulation. Acts, facts, lists, ghosts, depths, droop'st, adopts, fifths, laughst, hookst, desks, satst, help'st, twelfths, thefts, milk'st, halt'st, limp'st, attemptst, want'st, thinkst, warpst, dwarfst, hurtst, sixths, eighths, texts, protects, stifl'st, sparkl'st, waken'st, robb'st, amidst, width, digg'st, rav'st, writh'st, prob'dst, hundredths, begg'dst, besieg' dst, catch'dst, troubl'st, trifl'st, shov❜lst, kindl'st, struggl'st, puzzi'st, shieldst, revolv'st, help'dst, trembl'dst, trifl'dst, shov'ldst, involv'dst, twinkl'dst, fondl'dst, dazzl'dst, rattl'dst, send'st, wak'n'dst, mad d'n'dst, lighten'dst, ripen'dst, hearken'dst, doom'dst, o'erwhelm'dsts, absorbst, regard'st, curb'dst, hurl'dst, charm'dst, return'dst, starv'dst, strength'ns, strength'n'd, wrong'dst, lengthen'dst, sooth'dst, act'st, lift'st, melt'st, hurt'st, want'st, shout'st, touch'd, parch'd, help'dst, bark'dst, prompt'st, touch'dst, rattl'st. Put the cut pumpkin in a pipkin. Coop up the cook. A big mad dog bit bad Bob. Keep the tippet ticket. Kate hates tight tapes. Geese cackle, cattle low, crows caw, cocks crow. The bleak breeze blighted the bright broom blossoms. Dick dipped the tippet and dripped it. Giddy Kittie's tawdry gewgaws. The needy needlewoman needn't wheedle. Fetch the poor fellow's feather pillow. A very watery western vapor. Six thick thistle sticks. She says she shall sew a sheet. The sun shines on the shop signs. A shocking sottish set of shopmen. A short soft shot-silk sash. A silly shatter-brained chatterbox. Fetch six chaises. She thrust it through the thatch. Thrice the shrew threw the shoe. The slow snail's slime. I snuff shop snuff, do you snuff shop snuff? She sells seashells. Some shun sunshine. The sweep's suitably sooty suit. A rural ruler. Truly rural. Literally literary. Robert loudly rebuked Richard, who ran lustily roaring round the lobby. His right leg lagged in the race. Amidst the mists with angry boasts he thrusts his fists against the posts, and still insists he sees the ghosts. Around the rugged rocks the ragged rascal ran. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. Theophilus Thistle, the successful Thistle sifter, in sifting a sieve full of unsifted thistles, thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb; now if Theophilus Thistle, the successful thistle sifter, in sifting a sieve all of unsifted thistles, thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb, see that thou, in sifting a sieve full of unsifted thistles, thrust not three thousand thistles through the thick of thy thumb. Success to the successful thistle sifter. My dame has a lame tame crane, My dame has a crane that is tame; Let my dame's lame tame crane Drink and come home again. Laid in the cold ground [not coal ground]. Half I see the panting spirit sigh [not spirit's eye]. Be the same in thine own act and valor as thou art in desire [not thy known]. Oh, the torment of an ever-meddling memory [not a never meddling]. All night it lay an ice-drop there [not a nice drop]. Oh, studied deceit [not study]. A sad dangler [not angler]. Goodness centres in the heart [not enters]. His crime moved me [not cry]. Chaste stars [not chase tars]. She could pain nobody [not pay]. Make clean our hearts [not lean]. His beard descending swept his aged breast [not beer]. Did you say ten minutes to wait or ten minutes to eight? A sore eye saw I. Why y? Thou straightest, fastest strokes struck'dst, Stephen. TO THE TEACHER :-Many of the above sentences have been taken from Prof. Bell's excellent work, The Principles of Elocution," to which I am glad to refer all teachers who wish to be abreast of the times in our art. Be careful that pupils do not overdo the sound of s so frequent in many of these combinations; in combinations like sts, in lasts, posts. etc., the difficulty is not with the 8, but to bring out properly th The separation of similar sounds, as of two s's in successi can only be effected by an instant of perfect jaw-relaxation between them. It is taken for granted that the teacher understands the actions of the various agents of articulation sufficiently well to be able to point out such technical exercises for overcoming special deficiencies as may be necessary in addition to those I have given. LESSON XXXVIII. Facial Expression. The forehead, eyes, nose and mouth are the agents of facial expression. Facial expression comes in order of succession before gestures of any part. The face is next the brain, and is the first part to receive impressions from it. A smooth FOREHEAD denotes calmness, serenity. The brow drawn down and contracted indicates mental concentration, perplexity, antagonism, resistance to pain, according to the degree of contraction. The brow lifted indicates interested or eager attention, surprise. The brow lifted and contracted denotes sorrow, grief, patient endurance of mental or physical suffering. The brow rises with the "patient shrug." |