. The comic English grammar; a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue . y more of it. SECTION IV. OF PAUSES. A Pause, otherwise called a rest, is an absolutecessation of the voice, in speaking or reading,during a perceptible interval, longer or shorter,of time. Comic Pauses often occur in Oratory. Un-accustomed as I am to public speaking, is usuallyfollowed by a pause of this sort. A young gentle-man, his health having been drunk at a party,afforded, in endeavouring to return thanks, a signalillustration of the Pause Comic. Gentlemen,he began, the Ancient Romans,—(A pause), — I s
. The comic English grammar; a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue . y more of it. SECTION IV. OF PAUSES. A Pause, otherwise called a rest, is an absolutecessation of the voice, in speaking or reading,during a perceptible interval, longer or shorter,of time. Comic Pauses often occur in Oratory. Un-accustomed as I am to public speaking, is usuallyfollowed by a pause of this sort. A young gentle-man, his health having been drunk at a party,afforded, in endeavouring to return thanks, a signalillustration of the Pause Comic. Gentlemen,he began, the Ancient Romans,—(A pause), — I say. Gentlemen, the Ancient Romans, —(Hear!) — The Ancient Romans, Gentlemen, — (Bravo ! hear ! hear !) — Gentlemen — thatis — the Ancient Romans— were very fine fel-lows. Jack, I dare say, added a friend, pulling thespeaker down by the coat-tail. That notable Ancient Roman, Brutus, is repre-sented by Shakspere as making a glorious pause: as. PROSODY. 187 Who s here so vile that would not love hiscountry? If any, speak, for him have I pause for a 188 THE COMIC ENGLISH GRAMMAR. Here, of course, Brutus pauses, folds his arms,and looks magnanimous. We have heard, though,of an idle and impudent schoolboy, who, at apublic recitation, when he had uttered the words I pause for a reply, gravely took out his pen-knife and began paring his nails. This was minding his j)airs with a vengeance. A very long pause, particularly accompaniedby a very serious look on the part of the speaker,as good as tells the audience that something ofgreat importance is coming. It is therefore ne-cessary to have something of real consequence tobring out. The following extract from a politicalharangue will show how essential it is to attend tothis point:— And, Gentlemen, when I consider, I say,when I consider the condition of the masses of thiscountry, I do think, and it is my opinion, that theGovernment has much to answer for. But not todwell on that point, what have been
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