---------8.--do--#--_e_-in-m_e_.---Virtue alone survives.----
7. si # _i_ in d_i_e. Virtue alone survives.
-------6.--la--#--_o_-in-d_o_.---Virtue alone survives.------
5. sol # _o_ in n_o_. Virtue alone survives.
-----4.--fa--#--_a_-in-_a_t.---Virtue alone survives.--------
3. mi # _a_-in _a_te. Virtue alone survives.
---2.--re--#--_a_-in-f_a_r.--Virtue alone survives.----------
1. do # _a_ in _a_ll. Virtue alone survives

Although the voice is capable of as many variations in speaking, as are
marked on the musical scale, yet for all the purposes of ordinary
elocution, it will be sufficiently exact if we make but _three_ degrees
of variation, viz., the _Low_, the _Middle_, and the _High_.

1. THE LOW PITCH is that which falls below the usual speaking key, and
is employed in expressing emotions of _sublimity_, _awe_, and
_reverence_.

EXAMPLE.

Silence, how dead! darkness, how profound!
Nor eye, nor list'ning ear, an object finds;
Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general pulse
Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause.--
An awful pause! prophetic of her end.
YOUNG.

2. THE MIDDLE PITCH is that usually employed in common conversation, and
in expressing _unimpassioned thought_ and _moderate emotion_.