prayer. Then paufing cre you proceed, you raife your voice a little, not forgetting the greatest folemnity of tone and manner: Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, ་་ Bring with thee airs from heav'n or blafts from hell, - Thou com'ft in fuch a questionable fhape, That I will speak to thee. In all these lines obferve the fame folemnity as beforementioned, and the word questionable to be spoken with a peculiarly marked firong emphasis, a kind of burst of expreffion, as if feeling a degree of confidence on the firpposition that the ghost may be queftioned without impropriety I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane: Here Mr. Sheridan used to stop for a confiderable time, as if waiting for an answer, and then, with a kind of burst of exclamation proceeded Н Oh! answer me; !! Let me not burst in ignorance; "burft"—he used to particularly mark. but tell, Why thy canonifed bones, hearfed in earth, Have burst their cearments? The word burft as before. Why Why the fepulchre Wherein we faw thee quietly inurn'd, 11 Hath op'd its ponderous and marble jaws The words marked with a frong fwell of utterance.. What may this mean? That thou, dead corfe, again in complete steel Making night hideous, and us fools of nature, "Night hideous"-folemnly awful-and then in rather an affecting, melting tone proceed to "us fools of nature.” So horribly to shake our difpofition. Horribly-particularly mark it.. With thoughts beyond the reaches of our fouls? Throughout the whole of this fpeech, there must be ob ferved an awful folemnity of utterance, without which its beauty would be entirely loft. A low key of the voice will of course, no doubt, be feen by the fcholar, as the only one that will suit.; HAMLET'S SOLILOQUY ON DEATH, As repeated by Mr. Henderson, WHO was allowed, in this speech, by Mr. Stevens, the commentator, and many others of the first critics, to be much fuperior to Mr. Garrick.. Το To be, or not to be?-that is the question. The words marked, Mr. Henderfon particularly laid a ftrefs upon; the others he but lightly expreffed, never, of course, forgetting a folemnity of look and manner, fo neceffary in the whole of the speech. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind, to fuffer " The ftings and arrows of outrageous_fortune, \\ 11 Or to take arms against a fea of troubles, Henderson used, and with great propriety, the word fiege instead of fea, for although a "fea of troubles" fully expreffes the author's meaning, yet the metaphor being thus broken, the alteration by the above gentleman is evidently juft-To take arms against a fea, is an incorrect expreffion, the figure being thereby deftroyed. Mr. Garrick spoke it in the manner Shakespeare wrote it. To die,-to fleep No more; and by a fleep, to fay, we end The laft marked words in a full, ardent method of de livery. To die-to fleep To fleep? perchance to dream; ay, there's the rub; "Ay, there's the rub."-These words 'Mr. Henderson ufed ufed to repeat most solemnly impressive, and in a very deep low tone, in which he peculiarly excelled. For in that fleep of death, what dreams may come, . Muft give us pause These he used to mark with an almost equal folemnity as 64 ay, there's the rub.” There's the refpect, Make a ftrong emphasis on the word "there's." That makes calamity of fo-long-life: "calamity" frong and full, and if you paufe a little after it is pronounced, ere you proceed, you'll find it will give an additional beauty to the line. For who would bear the whips and fcorns of th time, ་ Th'oppreffor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, In rather a tender affecting tone. the law's delay, The infolence of office, and the fpurns With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear These words to be particularly marked-weary in a flow, dragging kind of tone. But that the dread of fomething after death, Mr. Mr. Henderfon, after the word "but" ufed to paufe, in the manner we have often before pointed out, and the remainder of the line he repeated with the utmost awful gravity fo peculiarly fuited to the fenfe. (That undiscover'd country, from whose bourne These words in the parenthefis, to be delivered as if they were not belonging to the preceding line, but introduced as it were by an accidental reflection, not intended as part of the fpeech itself-so that you must resume the fame tone you made ufe of, when you spoke the word "death" at the end of the line preceding the parenthefis, in pronouncing the three next words puzzles the will; And makes us rather bear those ills we have Mr. Henderson delivered the last line with a most awful, fignificant look towards heaven, and with a tone of voice folemn, and dignified. Thus confcience does make cowards of us all: ་ Is ficklied o'er with a pale caft of thought; || We have now given the reader the whole of the above incomparable speech, and have marked, as well as we were able, |