5. Avaunt`! and quit my sight`! let the earth hide thee`! Thy bones are
marrowless`; thou hast no speculation in thine eyes which thou dost
glare` with. SHAKSPEARE.

6. Slave, do thy office`! Strike`, as I struck the foe`!
Strike`, as I would have struck the tyrants`!
Strike deep as my curse`! Strike`, and but once`! ID.


RULE IX. An emphatic succession of particulars, and emphatic repetition,
require the _falling_ inflection.

EXAMPLES.

1. _Beware_` what earth calls happiness; BEWARE`
All joys but joys that never can expire`.

2. A great mind`, a great heart`, a great orator`, a great career`, have
been consigned to history`. BUTLER.

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