here as preparations for reading correctly the following promiscuous sentences:

And surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. The evening was fine, and the full orb'd moon shone with uncommon splendor. Till that a capable and wide revenge swallow them up. To catch, with their surcease, success.

He was incapable of a mean or questionable act.
Thou prob'st my wound instead of healing it.

Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide.

Create a soul under the ribs of death.

It was the act of all the acts of government the most objectionable.

The government of England is a mixed government.
What thou wouldst highly, that wouldst thou holily.
A frame of adamant, a soul of fire,

No dangers fright him, and no labors tire.

Lenity marked his character, gentleness his manners.
Urbanity of manners originates in the heart.

A repulsive exterior often covers merit.

The table groans beneath its burthen.

Clothes are not the mark of a man, nor is wealth the measure of merit.

And I heard a voice saying, "Cry;" and I said, "What shall I cry?"

He watched and wept, he felt and prayed for all.

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

Those who lie entomb'd in the public monuments.

Thou found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.

Modesty and merit oft go hand in hand.

Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow.

Then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, thou fall'st a blessed martyr.

Droves of slaves manacled and tied together were sold in the market-place.

The heights, breadths, and depths of the subject.

We saw, at the stern, a large dead fish floating.

Thou lookest from thy throne in the clouds, and laughest at the storm.

He begged pardon for having troubled the house so long. Arm it with rags, a pigmy's straw will pierce it. Stretched upon the bed of Procrustes.

That tear'st the bowels of thy mangled mate.

For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn.

Every man's house is his castle.

Foreign travel enlarges and liberalizes the mind.

Thou liv'st-liv'st, did I say? appear'st in the senate.

The muzzles of their pieces were within a few feet of his breast.

He was attacked with spasms.

And he slew him.

Thou chuckl'dst over thy gains too soon.

One extremity was pointed, the other was bulb'd.

The policy of the prince was to mulct the rich Jews.
The costliest silks are manufactured there.
O'erwhelmed with whirlwinds and tempestuous fire.

A roused vengeance sets him new at work.

The deep-mouthed blood-hound's heavy bay.

Thou call'dst me up at midnight to fetch dew from the stillvex'd Bermoothes.

Thy groans did make wolves howl, and penetrate the breasts of ever-angry bears.

When thou camest first, thou strok'dst me and mad'st much of me.

The string let fly, twang'd, short and sharp, like the shrill swallow's cry.

Why, in all the storms of this wide world, what wind should mar the violet?

The marble warm'd breathed music's sweetest tone.

Ere the sweet spheres by discord's hand were wrung.

Making their future might magnetic o'er the fix'd untrembling heart.

The icicle that's curdled by the frost from purest snow.

In these deep solitudes and awful cells,
Where heavenly-pensive Contemplation dwells,
And ever-musing Melancholy reigns.

When squadrons fainting paused-or stark and stiff,
Toppled to gulphy death far down the cliff.

Supremest monarch of the mightiest realm,

From Ganges to the Icebergs.

It was the severest storm of the season; but the mast stood through the gale. He has taken leave of terrestrial enjoyments, and is laid in the grave, the common receptacle and home of mortals.

The shard-borne beetle, with his drowsy hums,
Hath rung night's yawning peal.

Where worlds on worlds compose one universe.

I would

Have sunk the sea within the earth, or e'er
It should the good ship so have swallowed.

Point against point rebellious, arm 'gainst arm,
Curbing his lavish spirit.

But in them nature's copy's not eterne.

Which shall to all our nights and days to come
Give solely sovereign sway and masterdom.

Thy once proud hopes, presumptuous prince, are fled.
Clad in Achilles' arms if thou appear,

Proud Troy may tremble and desist from war.

Hail, horrors hail,

Infernal world! and thou! profoundest hell,

Receive thy new possessor.

And thou who kindlest and who quenchest suns!

Attest. May all the gods in general synod met

Take fortune's power away.

from her wheel,

Break all the spokes and fellies

And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven,

As low as to the fiends.

In my vast sum of life

Millions such units merge.

Heaven wears no cloud;

From nature's silent orbit starts no portent

To warn the unconscious world.

May thoughts of thy dread vengeance shake my soul!
Earth's meanest son, all trembling, prostrate falls.
Thrice flew the shaft, and thrice our peace was slain.
The buskin'd muse with solemn steps descends.

The following sentences, taken from Putnam's Elocution, will be found to involve difficult combinations; and the practice of such, affords an invaluable exercise for articulation :— The rough and rugged rocks rear their hoary heads high on the heath.

He had great fear of offending the frightened fugitive in his flight.

We wandered where the whirlpool wends its winding way. The swimming swan swiftly swept the swelling sweep. Round and round the rugged rocks the ragged rascals ran. Sam Slick sawed six slim sleek saplings for sale.

Six brave maids sat on six broad beds and braided broad braids.

Peter Prickle Prandle picked three pecks of prickly pears from three prickly prangly pear trees; if, then, Peter Prickle Prandle picked three pecks of prickly pears from three prickly prangly pear trees, where are the three pecks of prickly pears that Peter Prickle Prandle picked from three prickly prangly pear trees? Success to the successful prickly prangly pearpicker.