, Lord Tennyson_

LAUGHING CHORUS, A

LIFE AND SONG _Sidney Lanier_

LOCHINVAR _Sir Walter Scott_

MONT BLANC BEFORE SUNRISE _S.T. Coleridge_

MY LAST DUCHESS _Robert Browning_

MY STAR _Robert Browning_

PIPPA PASSES, Extracts from _Robert Browning_
I. Day.
II. The Year's at Spring.

RHODORA, THE _Ralph Waldo Emerson_

RING AND THE BOOK, THE, Extract from _Robert Browning_

SCENE FROM DAVID COPPERFIELD, I. _Charles Dickens_

SCENE FROM DAVID COPPERFIELD, II. _Charles Dickens_

SCENE FROM KING HENRY IV--"Falstaff's Recruits" _William Shakespeare_

SCENE FROM THE SHAUGHRAUN _Boucicault_

SELF-RELIANCE _Ralph Waldo Emerson_

TALE, THE--From The Two Poets of Croisic _Robert Browning_

TRUE USE OF WEALTH, THE _John Ruskin_

TRUTH AT LAST _Edward Rowland Sill_

WORK _John Ruskin_

EXERCISES FOR ELEMENTAL VOCAL EXPRESSION.

The exercises under each chapter have _primarily_ the characteristics
of that chapter, and _secondarily_ the characteristics of the other
two chapters.

CHAPTER I.

VITALITY.

MIND ACTIVITIES DOMINATED BY A CONSCIOUSNESS OF _Power, Largeness,
Freedom, Animation, Movement_.

1. "Ho! strike the flag-Staff deep, Sir Knight--ho! scatter flowers, fair
maids:
Ho! gunners, fire a loud salute--ho! gallants, draw your blades."

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2. "Awake, Sir King, the gates unspar!
Rise up and ride both fast and far!
The sea flows over bolt and bar."

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3. "I would call upon all the true sons of New England to co-operate with
the laws of man and the justice of heaven."

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4. "Robert of Sicily, brother of Pope Urbane,
And Volmond, emperor of Allemaine,
Apparelled in magnificent attire,
With retinue of many a knight and squire,
On St. John's eve at vespers proudly sat,
And heard the priest chant the Magnificat."

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5. "Then the master,
With a gesture of command,
Waved his hand;
And at the word,
Loud and sudden there was heard
All around them and below
The sound of hammers, blow on blow,
Knocking away the shores and spurs.
And see! she stirs!
She starts,--she moves,--she seems to feel
The thrill of life along her keel,
And, spurning with her foot the ground,
With one exulting, joyous bound,
She leaps i