Sanders' Union Fourth Reader / Embracing a Full Exposition of the Principles of Rhetorical Reading; with Numerous Exercises for Practice, Both in Prose and Poetry, Various in Style, and Carefully Adapted to the Purposes of Teaching in Schools of Every Grade

by Charles W. Sanders

SHAKSPEARE.

6.

Slave, do thy office`! Strike`, as I struck the foe`!
Strike`, as I would have struck the tyrants`!
Strike deep as my curse`! Strike`, and but once`!

ID.

RULE IX. An emphatic succession of particulars, and emphatic repetition, require the falling inflection.

EXAMPLES.

1.

Beware` what earth calls happiness; BEWARE`
All joys but joys that never can expire`.

2. A great mind`, a great heart`, a great orator`, a great career`, have been consigned to history`.

BUTLER.