to ivhat Extent, and hoiv most readily attainable?" 7 



lerably recited — next claimed our attention. The theoretical 

 notion of Lord Kaiines, that each of these words should fall pro- 

 gressively through the scale : the wild and indefinite jargon of 

 Mr. Walker, whose rising and falling inflexions surpass all human 

 understanding: but, above all, the imperfect declaration of the 

 author of a practical work of some merit called " Sheridan and 

 Henderson's Poems," that the expression of these words must be 

 varied as icell as we can; — excited the curiosity of the Speaker, 

 who, after deliberation, divided and stopped the passage thus: 



" By too severe a fate, fallen ', 

 Fallen, fallen, fallen : 

 Fallen from his high estate. 

 And welt'ring in his blood." 



He then delivered it in the following manner, within the boun- 

 dary of the Diatessaron or Fourth : 



^ 



l=^g§=E=E==£==i==E==!^ 



By too se-vere a fate, fallen; HiUen, f.iilen, fallen: 



Fallen from his high e- state, and wei-t'ring in his blood. 



An example of the circumflex succeeded by a genuine acute 

 must particularly interest the sc/iolar, for whose gratification I 

 shall note down the last line of Dryden's Version of the Exordium 

 of the /Eneid, as recited by the SrEAKER. This is likewise con- 

 fined to the Diatessaron : 



^ 



I- — »W- 



=il^liil=?EgEE=?El=^== 



And tlie long glo - rics of nia-jes-tic Rome. 



Handel, the great master of our recitative, once more presents 

 himself to our view. That highly extolled passage of his '' Atha- 

 lia," of which I have so constantly spoken, and vvhicii I have also 

 promised in its original form,— shall be here exhibited to the 

 reader, accompanied by an incontestable proof that music, com- 

 posed for the specific purpose by a superior genius, must contri- 

 bute to the advancement of our elocution. 



This passage, having been intentionally reserved as our final 

 subject for experiment, was not hitlierto rehearsed by the Si'EAKER. 

 In the presence of my Associate and another intelligent amateur, 

 it wa'i now delivered to him for recital ; v,as repeatedly executed 

 by him, for oin- observation ; and underwent the minutest ."cru- 

 tiny. The nmsic, as composed by Handel, was then taken up, 

 A I played 



