6. A Slurred Passage requires a pause immediately before and immediately after it; as, The plumage of the mocking-bird though none of the hōmeliest has nothing bright or showy in it. These rules, though important if properly applied, are by no means complete; nor can any be invented which shall meet all the cases that arise in the complicated relations of thought. A good reader or speaker pauses, on an ǎveraġe, at every fifth or sixth word, and in many cases much more frequently. In doing this, he will often use what may be called suspensive quantity. SUS III. SUSPENSIVE QUANTITY. USPENSIVE QUANTITY means prolonging the end of a word, without a real pause; thus suspending, without wholly interrupting, the progress of sound. 2. THIS PROLONGATION on the last syllable of a word is indicated thus, in the following examples. It is used chiefly for three purposes: 1st. To avoid too frequent a use of pauses; as, Her lover sinks-she sheds no ill-timed tear; Her chief is slain-she fills his fatal post; Her fellows flee-she checks their base career; The foe retires-she heads the rallying host. 2d. To produce a slighter disjunction than that of a pause; and thus at once to separate and unite; as, Would you kill your friend and benefactor? 3d. To break up the current of sound into small pōrtions, easily managed by the speaker without the abruptness which would result from pausing whenever this relief was needed; and to give ease in speaking; as, Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees. GENERAL RULE.-When a preposition is followed by EXERCISES IN PAUSES. 51 as many as three or four words which depend upon it, the word preceding the preposition will either have suspensive quantity, or else a pause; as, He is the pride of the whole country. STUDENTS will tell which of the preceding rules or principles is illustrated by the following exercisesboth the marked and the unmarked. EXERCISES IN PAUSES. 1. All promise is poor dilatory man. 2. Procrastination is the thief of time. 3. Weeping may endure for a night but joy cỏmeth in the morning. 4. Paul the Apostle wrote to Timothy. 5. Solomon, the son of David, was king of Israël. 9 6. He was a friend gentle ġenerous good-humored affectionate. 7. You see a gentleman, polished, easy, quiet, witty, and, socially, your equal. 8. Husbands and fäthers a heart of stōne. think of their wives and children. pity and charity being dead 7 to 10. The night wind with a desolate moan swept by. 11. Here come men women children. 12. It matters very little what immediate spot may have been the birth-place of such a man as Washington. No people can claim no country can appropriate him. The boon of Providence to the human race his fame is eternity and his dwelling-place creation. 13. Who like Washington after having emancipated a hemisphere resigned its crown and preferred the retirement of domestic life to the adoration of a land he might 9 almost be said to have created? 14. How shall we rank thee Thou more than soldier upon glōry's page, and just less than sage! All thou hast been reflects less praise on thee, PHONETIC KEY. I. TONICS. 1. a, or e; as, ale, veil: 2. à; aş, făt: 3. ä; as, ärt: 4. a, or ô; as, all, eôrn: 5. â, or ê; aş, câre, thêre: 6. ȧ; aş, åsk: 7. ē, or ï; as, wē, pïque: 8. ĕ; aş, ĕll: 9. e, i, or û; as, her, sir, bûr: 10. i, aş, içe: 11. Ĭ; aş, ill: 12. ō; aş, ōld: 13. ŏ, or a; as, on, whạt: 14. ọ, ū; oo, or u; as, do, fool, rule: 15. ù; aş, müle: 16. ů, or ỏ ; a$, úp, sơn : 17. ụ, ọ, or oo; as, bull, wolf, wool: 18. Ou, ou, or ow; as, Out, lout, owl. 1. b; aş, bib: g; aş, jig, gem: aş, nun: 8. n, II. SUBTONICS. 2. d; aş, did: 3. ğ; aş, gig: 4. j, or 5.1; aş, luil: 6. m; aş, mum: 7. n; or ng; aş, link, sing: 9. r; aş, rare: 10. Th, or th; aş, That, thith'er: 11. v; aş, valve: 12. w; aş, wig: 13. y; aş, yet: 14. z, or §; as, zine, iş : 15. z, or zh, aş, ǎzure. III. ATONICS. 1. f; aş, fife: 2. h; aş, hit: 3. k, or e; aş, kink, eat: 4. p; as, pop: 5. s, or ç; aş, siss, çity: 6. t; as, tart: 7. Th, or th; aş, Thin, pith: 8. Ch, or ch; as, Chin, rich 9. Sh, sh, or çh; as, Shot, ash, chaişe: 10. Wh, or wh; as, White, whip.—Italics, silent; aş, often (of'n): x for gs; as, ex ǎet'. |