Give clearly the _k_ and the _g_ forms, making a slight percussion in the back of the mouth. Finish clearly all main words. 1

With throats unslaked, with black lips baked, We could nor laugh nor wail; Through utter drought all dumb we stood! I bit my arm, I sucked the blood, And cried, A sail! a sail!

With throats unslaked, with black lips baked, Agape they heard me call: Gramercy! they for joy did grin, And all at once their breath drew in, As they were drinking all. 2

Where dwellest thou? Under the canopy. Under the canopy! Ay! Where’s that? I’ the city of kites and crows. I’ the city of kites and crows!-- Then thou dwellest with daws, too? No: I serve not thy master. 3

Strike | till the last armed foe | expires! Strike | for your altars and your fires! Strike | for the green graves of your sires! God | and your native land!

For flexibility of the lips, form well the _o_’s and _w_’s. 1

Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind as man’s ingratitude. 2

O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful, wonderful! and yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping! 3

Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. 4

O Wedding-Guest! this soul hath been Alone on a wide, wide sea: So lonely ’twas, that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.

Have care for _t_’s, _d_’s, _s_’s, the _th_ and the _st_’s. 1

Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.

Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down, ’Twas sad as sad could be; And we did speak only to break The silence of the sea! 2

What loud uproar bursts from that door! The wedding-guests are there: But in the garden-bower the bride And bride-maids singing are: And hark the little vesper bell, Which biddeth me to prayer! 3

Farewell, farewell! but this I tell To thee, thou Wedding-Guest! He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast.

He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.

Attend especially to _b_’s and in passage 2 to _p_’s. Give a very soft, slightly echoing continuation to the _ing_ in "dying." 1

Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying. Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying: Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying. 2

Hop, and Mop, and Drop so clear, Pip, and Trip, and Skip that were To Mab their sovereign dear, Her special maids of honor; Fib, and Tib, and Pinck, and Pin, Tit, and Nit, and Wap, and Win, The train that wait upon her.

EMPHASIS

Determine the exact sense and express it pointedly. The primary or central emphasis takes an absolute fall from a pitch above the general level; the secondary emphasis takes a circumflex inflection--a fall and a slight rise. Primary, Hebrew Letter Yod; secondary Gujarati Vowel Sign li. In the question, the main part of the inflection is usually rising instead of falling. The effect of suspense or of forward look requires the slightly upward final turn to the inflection. Note this in passages 4, 5, and 6. 1

In 1825 the gentleman told the world that the public lands "ought _not_ to be treated as a _treasure_." He now tells us that "they _must_ be treated as _so much treasure_." What the deliberate opinion of the gentleman on this subject may be, belongs not to me to determine. 2

Compare the two. This I offer to give you is _plain_ and _simple;_ the other full of perplexed and intricate _mazes_. This is mild; that _harsh_. This is found by experience _effectual for its purposes_; the other is a _new project_. This is _universal_; the other calculated for _certain colonies only._ This is _immediate in its conciliatory operation_; the other _remote, contingent_, full of _hazard_. 3

As Cæsar _loved me_, I _weep_ for him; as he was _fortunate_, I _rejoice_ at it; as he was _valiant_, I _honor_ him; but as he was _ambitious_, I _slew_ him. There is _tears_ for his _love_; _joy_ for his _fortune_; _honor_ for his _valor_; and _death_ for his _ambition_. 4

One moment he stood erect, strong, confident in the years stretching peacefully out before him; the next he lay wounded, bleeding, _helpless_, doomed to weary weeks of torture, to silence and the grave. 5

For no cause, in the very frenzy of wantonness and wickedness, by the red hand of Murder he was thrust from the full tide of this world’s interest, from its hopes, its aspirations, its victories, into the visible presence of death; and he _did not quail_. 6

There was no flinching as he charged. He had just turned to give a cheer when the fatal ball struck him. There was a convulsion of the upward hand--his eyes, pleading and loyal, turned their last glance to the flag--his lips parted--he fell _dead_, and at nightfall lay with his face to the stars. Home they brought him, fairer than Adonis over whom the goddess of beauty wept. 7

But the gentleman inquires why _he_ was made the object of such a reply. Why was _he_ singled out? If an attack has been made on the _East, he_, he assures us, did not _begin_ it; it was made by the gentleman from _Missouri_. Sir, I answered the gentleman’s speech because I happened to _hear_ it; and because, also, I chose to give an answer to that speech which, if _unanswered_, I thought most likely to produce _injurious impressions_.