REMARK.—The stress of voice on each successive particular, or repetition, should gradually be increased as the subject advances.
The CIRCUMFLEX is a union of the two inflections on the same word, beginning either with the falling and ending with the rising, or with the rising and ending with the falling; as, If he goes to ____ I shall go to ____.
The circumflex is mainly employed in the language of irony, and in expressing ideas implying some condition, either expressed or understood.
EXAMPLES.
1. Yoû, a beardless yoûth, pretend to teach a British gêneral.
2. What! shear a wôlf? a prowling wôlf?
3.
My father's trâde? ah, really, that's too bad!
My father's trâde? Why, blockhead, are you mâd?
My father, sir, did never stoop so low,—
Hê was a gentleman, I'd have you know.
4. What! confer a crôwn on the author of the public calâmities?
5. But yoû are very wise men, and deeply learned in the truth; wê are wêak, contêmptible, mêan persons.