PART III.

GENERAL CLASSES OF IDEAS.

learned separately the use of each element of vocal , we are prepared to take up their united use in the ading of the various classes of ideas.

Unemotional Ideas.

tional ideas should have moderate standard force and slides and volume, middle pitch, smooth stress, quality of voice, and moderate compass and variety

is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the n of forest trees. It argues, I think, a sweet and nature, to have a strong relish for the beauties of , and a friendship for the hardy and glorious sons rest. He who plants an oak looks forward to future 1 plants for posterity. Nothing can be less selfish . He cannot expect to sit in its shade and enjoy its but he exults in the idea that the acorn which he has the earth shall grow up into a lofty pile, and shall flourishing, and increasing, and benefiting mankind, r he shall have ceased to tread his paternal fields. W. Irving.

Earnest Ideas.

st ideas should have loud standard force, long slides, e time, with long quantity on the emphatic syllables, bitch, slightly aspirated quality, and abrupt stress and mpass and melody.

Who, then, caused the strife

at crimsoned Naseby's field, and Marston's Moor? was the Stuart; so the Stuart fell!

victim, in the pit himself had digged!

Whether we look, or whether we listen,
We hear life murmur, or see it glisten;
Every clod feels a stir of might,

An instinct within it that reaches and towers,
And, groping blindly above it for light,
Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers;
The little bird sits at his door in the sun,
Atilt like a blossom among the leaves,
And iets his illumined being o'errun
With the deluge of summer it receives.

Noble Ideas.

J. R. Lowell.

ideas should have full swelling volume and smooth with long quantity and long slides, loud force, pure middle pitch, and wide compass and melody.

wish that this column, rising towards heaven among ted spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may te also to produce, in all minds, a pious feeling of nce and gratitude. We wish, finally, that the last n the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and to gladden him who revisits it, may be something hall remind him of the liberty and glory of his counet it rise till it meet the sun in his coming; let the light of morning gild it, and parting day linger and on its summit.

Webster, Bunker Hill Monument.

Subdued and Pathetic Ideas.

ed or pathetic ideas should have soft force, short low time, gentle smooth stress, pure quality, and less derate volume and compass.

're waking, call me early, call me early, mother dear, would see the sun rise upon the glad New-year. he last New-year that I shall ever see,

you may lay me low i' the old and think no more

of me "

And sleep in dull cold marble, wh
Of me more must be heard of,
Say, Wolsey, that once trod the w
And sounded all the depths and s
Found thee a way, out of his wre
A sure and safe one, though thy r
Mark but my fall, and that that ru
Cromwell, I charge thee, fling aw
By that sin fell the angels; how
The image of his Maker, hope to
Let all the ends thou aim'st at be
Thy God's, and truth's: then, if t
Thou fall'st a blessed martyr!

Sha

Humorous and Sarcast

Good-natured wit and pleasantry ha in common with ill-natured wit and sar for the fun and wit good-naturedly, by the smooth stress. The force and with long time, and wide range of com

Good-natured Wit and

Beatrice. I wonder that you will s Benedick: nobody marks you. Benedick. What, my dear Lady

yet-living?