Which would but lead me to a worse relapfe, " As we have now given a fufficient number of examples to the scholar of that grandeur and fublimity of expreffion which in the reading requires a fuitable grandeur of utterance, we fhall lay before him fuch parts of Milton as captivate us by their eafe and affecting fimplicity of diction, and which demand a mode of delivery eafy and unaffected, but still will occafionally admit the introduction of that dignity, fo obviously the characteristic of Epic poetry, and peculiarly fo in that of the Poet of whom we are speaking.-The bewitching tenderness which breathes through the following, ought to be read with a glow and foftness of delivery, to do it justice. His wonder was to find unwaken'd Eve With treffes difcompos'd, and glowing cheek, As As through unquiet reft: he on his fide Paufe after "then," in the laft line; pronounce the word particularly foft. Mild, as when Zephyrus on Flora breathes, Her hand foft touching, whisper'd thus: "Awake, Raife your voice from the word "awake," during the whole of what Adam fays. Let there be a kind of heartfelt tenderness in your utterance. "My faireft, my efpous'd, my lateft found, Now in a lower tone. What little is here given of Eve's fpeech must be read in a manner expreffive of fear and uneafiness. Such whifp'ring wak'd her, but with startled eye "My "My glory, my perfection, glad I fee The following speech of Eve to Adam requires the fame glow and tenderness of expression. "With thee converfing, I forget all time; "All seasons and their change, all please alike: Adam's account of the manner he found himself upon his creation is fimply beautiful. Let your mode of reading it be entirely unreftrained. "As new wak'd from foundest sleep, "In balmy fweat, which his beams the fun "turn'd, "And gaz'd awhile the ample sky, till rais'd "Hill, dale, and fhady woods, and funny plains, ❝ flew, "Birds on the branches warbling; all things fmil'd: "With fragrance and with joy my heart o'erflow'd. "Thou Sun," faid I, "fair light, "And thou enlighten'd earth, so fresh and gay, "Ye hills and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains, "And ye that live and move, fair creatures, tell, "Tell, if ye faw, how came I thus, how here?" Eve's address to Adam, on his turning from her, after upbraiding her for being the cause of all their misfortunes, is a most affecting appeal to the heart, and muft be read in an exquifitely pathetic manner. He added not, and from her turn'd; but Eve Fell humble, and embracing them, befought Here comes the pathetic part. "Forfake me not thus, Adam! Witnefs, Heav'n, 66 "I beg, and clafp thy knees; bereave me not "My only ftrength and ftay! Forlorn of thee, "Whither fhall I betake me, where fubfift? "While yet we live (scarce one short hour perhaps) "Between us two let there be peace. The lamentation of Eve, on finding they were both to be turned out of Paradife, ought to be read with an almost equal affecting tone of voice as the former. → "Muft I thus leave thee, Paradife; thus leave "My early vifitation, and my laft "How |