4 '* Whether Music is necessary to the Orator, — 



so essentially depend. Even the simpler species of our modern 

 melody, until considerably and judiciously limited both in time 

 and interval, was proved by experiment to have been injurious to 

 the Orator : neither was music, indeed, under every essayed re- 

 gulation, found materially advantageous, until all previous orato- 

 rical associations were utterly effaced ; for the accomplishment 

 of which, accent, quantity, and certain exercises connected with 

 the execution of these, were efficaciously adopted. 



It is now time that we return to the Speaker, whom we left in 

 our last paper systematically pursuing the improvement of his 

 ear and enunciative organs, by a series of muscular and musical 

 lessons arranged for the occasion, and attainable by the simplest 

 process. A comprehensive exercise of time and forte, embracing 

 all the simpler feet of antiquity, concluded the whole ; and no- 

 thing further remained than the final application of his attain- 

 ments, in the graceful and expressive delivery of those languages 

 best calculated for this salutary purpose. 



All the passages then, which I have hitherto noticed — namely, 

 that of Virgil's first Eclogue, of the ^Eneid, of the Iliad, and of 

 Ovid's Metamorphoses — those of the Epithalamium by Theo- 

 critus, and that of the first Philippic of Demosthenes, with the 

 addition of Ilqwrov ftsv down to /3=XTtco yrvsVda*, were restudied 

 and at length modulated with satisfactory chasteness and variety. 

 At this period, the Speaker was, in a m%isicul sense, so mate- 

 rially improved; and could retrace, with so much accuracy, his 

 intervals — that my Associate was readily enabled to note down 

 the Exordium of the Iliad, which, almost exactly as it was spoken, 

 has been laid before the public in The Philosophical Magazine 

 of February. The only subsequent recitations in which the 

 Speaker was exercised, were 



The first stanza and part of the 



second of Sappho's well-known 



fragment [as if a period] . . <PxIvstolI jtAO* down to \ft.?qiev , 

 The same, in Latin, by Catullus Ille mi . . dttlce ridentem. 



Lord's Prayer IIoLTeg fjfuuv . . to the end. 



Exordium of Demosthenes 



on the Peace . . . . OP/2 jotev . . U^ori/xsva (rcwS^crcTat. 



Exordium of Demosthenes 



on the Crown .. .. ngiuTov jxh . , Eua-cut ^gri<rix(7Qxi. 



Peroration on the Crown , , Mr; Sijx' u Travrs j ^eoj to the end.* 



And of all these, the last-mentioned peroration was infinitely the 

 most difficult; — so difficult indeed, when spoken in quantity, that 

 I very much doubt whether any modern organ, without previous 



• " Patrit dictum sapiens " was likewise executed. The result fully au- 

 thorized the observation of Cicero. 



discipline, 



