to what Extent, and how most readily attainable?” 165 
word exemplification is equally Greek and Latin with respect to 
its emphatic syllable ca, and that the only existing difference is 
dependent upon the notes, of which the highest or accent is 
seated in the Grecian language upon the unemphatice syllable fi 3 
and in the Latin upon the emphatic ca: Now, for the conclu- 
sion of a period with this identical word, it would necessarily be 
expressed in the respective languages thus: 
In the Greek, . . . e 
Ia*the Lating /> 617.7 ee {be 
methods more lofty and less monotonous than ours; preserv- 
ing, in the first place, the level or common tone throughout 
every syllable preceding the accent—then rising, ad libitum 
within the diapente, upon the accented syllable ; and lastly, fall- 
ing in like manner progressively * through the scale, on every 
syllable which succeeds it. 
Although the musical reader must thoroughly comprehend 
that falling is by no means necessary to a finish; yet Lord 
Kaimes, in his * Elements of Criticism ;”? and Mr. Sheridan in 
his “ Art of Reading,” having inculcated the contrary doctrine 
to the classical world, it becomes, in a certain degree, necessary 
to refute them. Had these gentlemen been at all acquainted 
with our musical compositions, they must have seen not only the 
practicability but the frequent introduction of the ascending 
nish—of the beauty of which the Greeks were so truly sensible, 
that, even in speech, it constituted a part of their accentual va- 
riety T. 
With what excellent effect has our celebrated BRAHAM intro- 
duced this species of close, in his well-known song “ On this 
cold flinty rock, Fc.” 
(9) i) 
And. kiss from thy lids the sad tear. 
‘Of the tonical Situation of the EMPHATIC SYLLABLE. 
Observation 5.—The predominant, although by no means the 
* Aulus Gellius in his Noctes Attice, book xiii. chap. 24. has shown us 
that the habit of progressively descending, after the accent, prevailed with 
the ancients. His original words are “‘ deinde gradatim descendunt.” 
+ In the Grecian language, when the last syllable was acuted it rose. 
The Roman language being confined (in some degree, like our own,) to the 
descending period, was more monotonous.— Quint. Instit. book ‘xii. cap. LO. 
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