"In yon bright track, that fires the western fkies, "They melt, they vanish from my eyes.

Look upwards when you speak the two last lines.

"But oh! what folemn fcenes on Snowdon's height "Defcending flow their glitt'ring skirts unroll;

Stop at "flow," as if there was a comma.

"Vifions of glory, fpare my aching fight!
"Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my foul!
"No more our long-loft Arthur we bewail.
"All-hail, ye genuine kings, Britannia's iffue, hail!

"Girt with many a baron bold

"Sublime their starry fronts they rear; "And gorgeous dames, and statesmen old, "In bearded majesty appear.

"In the midft a form divine!

"Her eye proclaims her of the Briton line;
"Her lion-port, her awe-commanding face,
Attemper'd fweet to virgin grace.

"What strings fymphonious tremble in the air! "What strains of vocal tranfport round her play! "Hear from the grave, great Talieffin, hear!

"They breathe a foul to animate thy clay.
"Bright rapture calls, and foaring as fhe fings,
"Waves in the eye of heav'n her many-colour'd

wings.

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"The verse adorn again,

"Fierce War, and faithful Love,

"And Truth fevere, by fairy Fiction dress'd.

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"In bufkin'd measures move

"Pale Grief, and pleafing Pain,

"With Horror, tyrant of the throbbing breast.

Soften your voice in the four next lines.

"A voice, as of the cherub-choir,
"Gales from blooming Eden bear;

1 “And diftant warblings leffen on my ear,
"That loft in long futurity expire.

Stop as if a comma after "loft"

"Fond impious man! think'st thou yon fanguine

❝cloud,

"Rais'd by thy breath, has quench'd the orb of day?
"To-morrow he repairs the golden flood,
"And warms the nations with redoubled ray.
"Enough for me: with joy I fee
"The different doom our fates affign:

"Be thine Defpair, and fcepter'd Care,

"To triumph, and to die, are mine.”

"He spoke; and, headlong from the mountain's height,

Deep in the roaring tide he plung'd to endless night.

Make a pause of fome length when you come to the two laft lines, and fpeak them, particularly the laft, in a low tone, and with the greatest folemnity.

In reading the preceding ode with propriety, you ought, however neceffary it may be in fome cafes to change the tone of your voice, never to lose fight of that grandeur and dignity which are fo apparently the intent of the writer throughout. With the pathetic which you will find proper to introduce in various parts of it, you muft blend these two effentials, or elfe the full and true effect of the whole poem will be deftroyed.

IN order to give our volume as much variety as poffible, and thereby introduce fuch parts of the different forts of poetry, with occafional remarks and inftructions, as to enable the scholar to become in time a proficient in reading most of them, we fhall now infert feveral of Gay's and Moore's fables, so much admired by all those who poffefs a true tafte for fuch compofitions-Their principal and indifpenfable qualities are ease and fluency of diction, with natural and pleafing fentiments.Thefe being their prominent features, the person who wishes to read them with juftnefs and propriety, ought to poffefs a neat flippancy of expreffion, at the fame time taking care to mark thofe places with strength and energy where the effect and meaning require it.-With these preliminary obfervations we fhall begin with a few of the fables of Mr. GAY.

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THE SPANIEL AND THE CAMELEON..

A SPANIEL, bred with all the care

That waits upon a fav'rite heir,

Ne'er felt correction's rigid hand;;
Indulg'd to difobey command.

Stop a little after "indulg'd." Let the whole fable go trippingly off the tongue, and with as little restraint as if you were speaking to a friend. ·

In pamper'd ease his hours were spent ;
He never knew what learning meant.
Such forward airs, fo pert, fo fmart,
Were fure to win his lady's heart:
Each little mifchief gain'd him praife:
How pretty were his fawning ways!

The wind was fouth, the morning fair;

He ventures forth to take the air:

He

ranges all the meadow round, And rolls upon the fofteft ground;

When near him a Cameleon feen,

Make a little paufe after "him" to introduce the word Cameleon" with more notice to the reader.

Was fcarce diftinguifh'd from the green.

Now raise your voice a little higher.

Dear emblem of the flatt'ring hoft,

What, live with clowns! a genius loft!!

To cities and the court repair;

A fortune cannot fail thee there:
Preferment shall thy talents crown,
Believe me, friend, I know the town.
Sir, fays the fycophant, like you,
Of old, politer life I knew:

Like you, a courtier born and bred,
Kings lean'd their ear to what I said.
My whisper always met fuccefs;
The ladies prais'd me for address.
I knew to hit each courtier's paffion,
And flatter'd ev'ry vice in fashion.
But Jove, who hates the liar's ways,
At once cut fhort my profp'rous days;
And, fentenc'd to retain my nature,
Transform'd me to this crawling creature
Doom'd to a life obfcure and mean,
I wander in the fylvan fcene.
For Jove the heart alone regards;
He punishes what man rewards.
How diff'rent is thy cafe and mine!
With men at least you fup and dine;
While I, condemn'd to thinneft fare,
Like those I flatter'd, feed on air..

The latter part of a fable generally prefents us with the moral upon which the whole is built. This ought to be read with apparently more care and impression, in order to give it its proper effect.

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