RULE III. Whatever member intervenes between the verb and the accusative case, is of the nature of a parenthesis, and must be separated from both by a short pause. Example. "I knew a person who possessed the faculty of distinguishing flavours in so great a perfection, that, after having tasted ten different kinds of tea, he could distinguish,/— without seeing the colour of it,/-the particular sort which was offered him." ADDISON. RULE IV. Whatever words are put into the case absolute, must be separated from the rest by a pause Example. If a man borrow ought of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or die,/ the owner thereof not being with it,/-he shall surely make it good." RULE V. Words or phrases in apposition, or when the latter only explain the former, have a short pause between them. Example. 1. "Spencer,/ the poet,/ lived in the reign of Queen Elizabeth." 2. Hope, the balm of life,/ soothes us under every misfortune." RULE VI. . Who and which, when relative pronouns, and that, when it stands for who and which, always admit of a pause before them. Examples. 1. "A man can never be obliged to submit to any power, unless he can be satisfied,/ who is the person,/ who has a right to exercise it." LOCKE. 2. " Many of Johnson's works, which you so much admire,/ were written in great haste." 3. "Nothing is in vain,/ that rouses the soul: nothing in vain,/ that keeps the ethereal fire alive and glowing." RULE VII. When that is used as a casual conjunction, it ought always to be preceded by a short pause. Example. "The custom and familiarity of these tongues do sometimes so far influence the expressions in these epistles,/ that one may observe the force of the Hebrew conjugation.” RULE VIII. LOCKE. Where there is no pause in the sense at the end of a verse, the last word must have exactly the same inflection it would have in prose. Example. "Over their heads a crystal firmament, Whereon a sapphire throne, inlaid with pure RULE IX. MILTON. In reading blank verse, care must be taken to steer between the one extreme of ending every line with a pause; and the other, of running one line into another more rapidly than in prose. RULE X. A simile, in poetry, ought always to be read in a lower tone of voice than that part of the passage which precedes it. Sublime, grand, and magnificent description in poetry, requires a lower tone of voice, and a sameness nearly approaching to a monotone. SELECTIONS IN VERSE. ADDRESS TO MONT BLANC. HAST thou a charm to stay the morning-star Rave ceaselessly; but thou, most awful form! O dread and silent mount! I gazed upon thee, Didst vanish from my thought: entranced in prayer, Yet, like some sweet, beguiling melody, So sweet, we know not we are listening to it, Co-herald wake, O wake, and utter praise! And you, ye five wild torrents, fiercely glad! Your strength, your speed, your fury, and your joy, And who commanded (and the silence came), 66 Here let the billows stiffen, and have rest?" Ye ice-falls! ye that from the mountain's brow Who made you glorious as the gates of heaven God! sing, ye meadow-streams, with gladsome voice! Ye living flowers, that skirt the eternal frost! Ye wild goats, sporting round the eagle's nest! Ye eagles, playmates of the mountain storm! Ye lightnings, the dread arrows of the clouds Ye signs and wonders of the element! Utter forth, God! and fill the hills with praise! Once more, hoar mount! with thy sky-pointing peaks, Oft from whose feet the avalanche, unheard, Shoots downward, glittering through the pure serene, |