DIRECTIONS TO THE EXERCISES. EVERY bar, as in music, is to occupy the same time. This time is to be consumed in the prounciation of the syllables contained in the bars, or the syllables and pauses, or the pauses alone, where the whole bar is devoted to rest. The mark A shows that a syllable is heavy or accented; .. that it is light or unaccented. The mark indicates that a rest or pause, is to be made. A long syllable can be extended through the whole time of a bar, and may be made heavy or accented in its opening, and light at its termination; a short one cannot fill a bar. When the mark is omitted after a short heavy syllable, standing alone in a bar, a pause is to be made as if it were present. By the use of the exercises, it will soon be perceived that most persons are deficient in rythm. By an exact observation of it, two consequences will follow; reading will cease to be laborious, and the sense will be rendered perfectly clear, as far as it is dependent on the capital point of the distribution of time, or measure. Lastly, the progress of the voice is to be distinct from the accented to the unaccented syllable, or from heavy to light, and not from light to heavy. EXERCISES. ODE, ON THE DEATH OF THOMSON. Collins. The scene of the following stanzas, is supposed to be on the Thames, near Richmond. In yonder grave a Druid lies, Re-membrance oft shall haunt the shore, eloft M Thames in Δ Δ .. | Δ And oft suspend the dashing | oar, Δ .. Δ .. Δ .. To bid his gentle spirit|rest. Δ . Δ . Δ . Δ Δ.Δ.Δ. Δ mid the varied Δ weep. | ។។ | ។ Δ . landscape ។ ។ Δ 1 Δ .. what will every | dirge a- | vail? Δ.... Δ .. Δ. Δ Or tears, which love and pity | shed, |