2.  Lives of great men all remind us
     We can make our lives sublime,
   And, departing, leave behind us
     Footprints on the sands of time.

3.  Cast your eyes over this extensive country.  Observe the salubrity of your climate, the variety and fertility of your soil; and see that soil intersected in every quarter by bold, navigable streams, flowing to the east and to the west, as if the finger of heaven were marking out the course of your settlements, inviting you to enterprise, and pointing the way to wealth.

QUICK MOVEMENT. (53)

1.  Awake’! arise’! or be forever fallen.

2.  Merrily swinging on brier and weed,
     Near to the nest of his little dame,
   Over the mountain side or mead,
     Robert of Lincoln is telling his name.

3.  Not a word to each other; we kept the great pace—­
   Neck by neck, stride by stride, never changing our place;
   I turned in my saddle and made its girths tight,
   Then shortened each stirrup and set the pique right,
   Rebuckled the check strap, chained slacker the bit,
   Nor galloped less steadily Roland a whit.

4.  Oh my dear uncle, you don’t know the effect of a fine spring morning upon a fellow just arrived from Russia.  The day looked bright, trees budding, birds singing, the park so gay, that I took a leap out of your balcony, made your deer fly before me like the wind, and chased them all around the park to get an appetite for breakfast, while you were snoring in bed, uncle.

Quality.—­We notice a difference between the soft, insinuating tones of persuasion; the full, strong voice of command and decision; the harsh, irregular, and sometimes grating explosion of the sounds of passion; the plaintive notes of sorrow and pity; and the equable and unimpassioned flow of words in argumentative style.  This difference consists in a variation in the quality of the voice by which it is adapted to the character of the thought or sentiment read or spoken.  In our attempts to imitate nature, however, it is important that all affectation be avoided, for perfect monotony is preferable to this fault.  The tones of the voice should be made to correspond with the nature of the subject, without apparent effort.

EXAMPLES. (54)

Passion and Grief

   “Come back! come back!” he cried, in grief,
     “Across this stormy water;
   And I’ll forgive your Highland chief,
     My daughter!  O, my daughter!”

Plaintive

   I have lived long enough:  my way of life
   Is fallen into the sear, the yellow leaf: 
   And that which should accompany old age,
   As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends,
   I must not look to have.

Calm

   A very great portion of this globe is covered
   with water, which is called sea, and is very
   distinct from rivers and lakes.