5. Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Or Flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death? 6. If ye are beasts, then stand here like fat oxen, waiting for the butcher's knife! If ye are men,-follow me! Strike down yon guard, gain the mountain passes, and there do bloody work, as did your sires at old Thermopylæ ! -E. Kellogg. 7 When can their glory fade? -Tennyson. 8. The charge is utterly, totally and meanly false? 9. Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil, rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things. Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face: now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known. And now abideth faith, hope, charity,-these three; but the greatest of these is charity.-Bible 1. EXAMPLES IN WAVE OR CIRCUMFLEX. Oh, a wonderful stream is the river of Time, -B. F. Taylor. 2. It took Rome three hundred years to die; and our death, if we perish, will be as much more terrific as our intelligence and free institutions have given to us more bone and sinew and vitality. May God hide me from the day when the dying agonies of my country shall begin! O thou beloved land, bound together by the ties of brotherhood, and common_interest, and perils, live forever-one and undivided!-Lyman Beecher. 3. And this man Is now become a god; and Cassius is A wretched creature, and must bend his body, He had a fever when he was in Spain, And, when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake: 'tis true, this god did shake: His coward lips did from their color fly; And that same eye, whose bend doth awe the world, 4. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled, that force must be called in to win back our love? 5. None dared withstand him to his face, But one sly maiden spake aside : "The little witch is evil-eyed, Her mother only killed a cow, Or witched a churn, or dairy-pan, But she, forsooth, must charm a man.” 6. My feet are wearied and my hands are tired, And with desire have I long desired 7. Rich in a dozen paltry villages! Strong in a hundred spearmen! but only great in that strange spell a name! 8. The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. 9. I saw a man Deal Death unto his brother. Drop by drop -E. Evans Edwards. 10. O Rome! Rome! thou hast been a tender nurse to me. Ay! thou hast given to that poor, gentle, timid shepherd-lad, who never knew a harsher tone than a flute-note, muscles of iron and a heart of flint; taught him to drive the sword through plaited mail and links of rugged brass, and warm it in the marrow of his foe:-to gaze into the glaring eye-balls of the fierce Numidian lion even as a boy upon a laughing-girl! 11. Alternate the Rising and Falling Circumflex in the following: Did you say no, or no? I said no, not no. OUTLINE OF GESTURE. GESTURE. Gesture is posture or action, expressive of sentiment and emotion. While Speech is the verbal manifestation of thought and feeling, Gesture is the silent, but no less eloquent expositor of the same workings of the soul. It supplements speech, and by its added grace, emphasis, and illustration, furnishes to the hearer a picture complete in all its parts. It is not the object to present here a series of rules upon which the student is expected to rely. True art never cables itself to mechanical forms-its inspiration and power emanate from the soul of the speaker. There are, however, certain natural laws which control all our actions, and upon these are based the Topics presented in the following outline: Gesture, with reference to sentiment, is divided into CONVERSATIONAL, ORATORICAL, DRAMATIC. CONVERSATIONAL GESTURES are used in unemotional lan. guage. The position should be erect, easy and natural; the arm movements should usually centre at the elbow, and the expression of the countenance be open and cheerful. ORATORICAL GESTURES delineate the earnest, the lofty, and the sublime. Hence, the position is not only erect, but active; the arm movements are mainly from the shoulder, and the expression of the face is confident and animated. DRAMATIC GESTURES relate to the drama and to all deeply impassioned language. They are the exponent of the passions, and require great intensity of feeling in position, movement, and facial expression. NOTE.-Any one of the divisions above named may be found closely combined with either, or both of the others, as shown in the following examples: So through the night rode Paul Revere ! And so through the night went his cry of alarm A cry of defiance, and not of fear, A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door, --Longfellow. Then suddenly rang a sharp, low cry! -Hamilton Aide, "Lost and Found.” |