and lie prostrate on the earth! There, and prostrate there, I most unfeignedly recognize the divine justice, and in some degree submit to it. I am alone. I have none to meet my enemies in the gate. Indeed, I greatly deceive myself, if, in this hard season, I would give a peck of refuse wheat for all that is called fame and honor in the world. I live in an inverted order. They who ought to have succeeded me, are gone before me. They who should have been to me as posterity, are in the place of ancestors. I owe to the dearest relation, (which ever must subsist in memory,) that act of piety, which he would have performed to me."*

Indignation.

"Orotund" "Pectoral Quality," somewhat "aspirated,❞— Full Force, sometimes "Empassioned,"-"Vanishing Stress," "Low" Pitch, Prevalent "Falling Inflection," " Slow Movement," Pauses long, Strong Emphasis

Extracts from Fears in Solitude. (Writen in 1798).— Coleridge. "From east to west

A groan of accusation pierces heaven!
The wretched plead against us; multitudes,
Countless and vehement, the sons of God,
Our brethren! Like a cloud that travels on,
Steamed up from Cairo's swamps of pestilence,
Even so, my countrymen, have we gone forth,
And borne to distant tribes slavery and pangs,
And, deadlier far, our vices, whose deep taint,
With slow perdition murders the whole man,
His body and his soul!

"Thankless, too, for peace,

(Peace long preserved by fleets and perilous seas,)
Secure from actual warfare, we have loved
Too well the war-hoop, passionate for war!

*Repeat previous examples of the same emotion.

Alas! for ages ignorant of all

Its ghastly workings, (famine, or blue plague,
Battle, or siege, or flight through wintry snows,)
We, this whole people, have been clamorous
For war and bloodshed;— animating sports!
The which we pay for, as a thing to talk of,
Spectators, and not combatants! - No guess
Anticipative of a wrong unfelt,
No speculation or contingency,

However dim and vague, too vague and dim
To yield a justifying cause; and forth
(Stuffed out with big preamble, holy names,
And adjurations of the God in heaven,)

We send our mandates for the certain death
Of thousands and ten thousands! Boys and girls,
And women that would groan to see a child
Pull off an insect's leg, all read of war,

The best amusement for our morning meal!
The poor wretch who has learned his only prayers
From curses, who knows scarcely words enough
To ask a blessing from his heavenly Father,
Becomes a fluent phrase-man, absolute
And technical in victories and defeats,

And all our dainty terms for fratricide;

Terms which we trundle smoothly o'er our tongues
Like mere abstractions, empty sounds to which
We join no feeling, and attach no form!

As if the soldier died without a wound;
As if the fibres of this godlike frame

Were gored without a pang; as if the wretch
Who fell in battle, doing bloody deeds,
Passed off to heaven translated, and not killed;
As though he had no wife to pine for him,—
No God to judge him! Therefore, evil days
Are coming on us, O my countrymen !
And what if all-avenging Providence,
Strong retributive, should make us know

The meaning of our words, force us to feel
The desolation and the agony

Of onr fierce doings?"

Extracts from Isaiah IX.

V. 13. "The people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the Lord of hosts. 14. Therefore the Lord will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day. 15. The ancient and honorable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail. 16. For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed. 17. Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is a hypocrite and an evil doer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away; but his hand is stretched out still. 18. For wickedness burneth as the fire; it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke. Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts is the land darkened; and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire; no man shall spare his brother." - 21. “ For all this his anger is not turned away; but his hand is stretched out still.”

Denunciation.

19.

"Expression" as before, but moderated to a more restrained and calmer mood, by the influence of Solemnity and Regret.

Extract from Matthew VIII.

V. 21. "Wo unto thee, Chorazin! wo unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, in sackcloth and ashes. 22. But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon, at the day of judgment, than for you. 23. And thou Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be thrust

down to hell: for if the mighty works which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. 24. But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom, in the day of judgment, than for thee."

The Slave-Trade. - Dewey.

And of
Other

"The world is full of wrongs and evils, and full of wronged and suffering men. But still I do say that of all wrongs, slavery is the greatest. It denies to man his humanity, and all its highest and holiest rights. all slavery, the African is the most monstrous. men have fallen under this doom by the fate of war. They have bought life at the price of bondage. With Africa there has been no war but that of the prowling man-stealer! He has gone up among the river-glades of that ill-fated land; he has torn men and women and children, from their country and their homes, who never did him any wrong; he has hurried them to his prison-ship; he has plunged them into the dungeon of "the middle passage," - middle passage!-phrase that passes in universal speech for all the atrocities that human nature can inflict or endure, he has thrust them down into that dark, unbreathing confine, in mingling and writhing agony and despair and disease and corruption and death; he has borne them away, regardless of their tears and entreaties, and sold them into hopeless bondage in a strange land; forty millions, it is calculated,- forty millions of human beings have suffered this awful fate! Oh! it is the great. felon act in humanity! Oh! it is the monster crime of the world!"

Tenderness.

"Pure Tone," "Subdued" Force, "Median Stress," "Middle Pitch, Prevalent "Semitone,” " "Slow Movement," Long Pauses, Gentle Emphasis.

Extract from Lines to an Infant.— Coleridge.

“Poor stumbler on the rocky coast of wo,
Tutored by pain each source of pain to know!
Alike the foodful fruit and scorching fire
Awake thy eager grasp and young desire;
Alike the good, the ill, offend thy sight,
And rouse the stormy sense of shrill affright.
Untaught, yet wise! mid all thy brief alarms
Thou closely clingest to thy mother's arms,
Nestling thy little face in that fond breast
Whose anxious heavings lull thee to thy rest!

Man's breathing miniature! thou makʼst me sigh,

A babe art thou - and such a thing am I!

To anger rapid, and as soon appeased,

For trifles mourning, and by trifles pleased,
Break Friendship's mirror with a tetchy blow,

Yet snatch what coals of fire on Pleasure's altar glow!
"O Thou that rearest, with celestial aim,
The future seraph in my mortal frame,
Thrice holy Faith! whatever thorns I meet,
As on I totter with unpractised feet,

Still let me stretch my arms and cling to thee,
Meek nurse of souls through their long infancy!"

"Expression" as before, but moderated in its characteristics. Extract from Matthew, XI.

V. 28. "Come unto me, all ye that labor, and are heavy laden; and I will give you rest. 29. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me: for I am meek and lowly of heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls. is easy, and my burden is light."

30. For my yoke