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ADDRESS TO MONT BLANC.

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Rise, O ever rise i
Rise like a cloud of incense from the earth!
Thou kingly spirit throned among the hills,
Thou dread ambassador from earth to heaven,
Great Hierarch! tell thou the silent sky,
And tell the stars, and tell yon rising sun,
Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God."

INVECTIVE V. WARREN HASTINGS.

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COLERIDGE.

breathing their last and fervent prayer, that the dry earth might not be suffered to drink their blood, but that it might rise up to the throne of God, and rouse the eternal Providence to avenge the wrongs of their country."-SHERIDAN.

PERORATION OF THE ORATION AGAINST VERRES,

Oliberty!-O sound once delightful to every Roman ear! O sacred privilege of Roman citizenship!-Once sacred, now trampled upon !"-CICERO.

DIAGRAM IV.-INVOCATORY POSITION.

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HARRAM Y.--ENTREATY AND DENIAL.

Magram This diagram shows the position in which a boy should stand, who is being addressed by anday, and up who addresses another speaker in A speaker who delivers himself singly to an

that one most remote from the audience, throwing the weight of the body also on that side. It must be

DIAGRAM VI.-RELATIVE POSITIONS.

carefully noted, that when a boy is not speaking, the arms must hang naturally by the sides, unless what is spoken by one, is of such importance as to excite agitation and surprise in the other; or he may, with propriety, occasionally stand with his arms folded, or with the right hand in the left breast, or the reverse, as shown in diagram 7. Where more than two speakers are introduced, as in some extracts from plays, the speakers should be arranged in a picturesque manner, agreeably to the laws of perspective; and it is in these scenes that the positions of repose, represented in diagram 7, may be most advantageously introduced. In the delineation of character, the most unerring

guide is nature. If the speaker possess sufficient judgment and skill, and allow himself to be actuated solely by the feelings he may be endeavouring to portray, he will rarely err.*

The compiler has to acknowledge his deep obligations to William Creswick, Esq., for several valuable suggestions in the remarks on Gesture and Action.

RHETORICAL PUNCTUATION.

The following simple and useful rules are extracted from Mr. Walker's Rhetorical Grammar. The pause is to be made on the word immediately preceding the slanting line, thus /.

RULE I.

When a nominative consists of more than one word, it is necessary to pause after it.

Example.

"The great and invincible Alexander,/ wept for the fate of Darius."

RULE II.

Whatever member intervenes between the nominative case and the verb, is of the nature of a parenthesis, and must be separated from both of them, by a short

pause.

Example.

"Money,/like manure,/ does no good till it is spread."

* Quintilian mentions having seen actors, who, after performing pathetic characters, wept and sobbed for a long time after they had laid aside their masks.

Vidi ego sæpe histriones atque comodos, cum ex aliquo graviore actu personam deposuissent, flentes adhuc egredi."