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For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.
To me, and to the state of my great grief,
Let kings assemble; for my grief's so great,
That no supporter but the huge firm earth
Can hold it up: here i and sorrows sit;
Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it."

-SHAKESPEARE.

AGONIZED SUPPLICATION.

-Aspirated Quality. Weeping Ut terance. Waves. Chromatic Thirds and Fifths.

"Too hard to bear! why did they take me thence?
O God Almighty, blessed Savior: Thou
That did'st uphold me on my lonely isle,
Uphold me, Father, in my loneliness
A little longer! aid me, give me strength
Not to tell her, never to let her know.
Help me not to break in upon her peace.
My children too! must I not speak to these?
They know me not. I should betray myself.
Never!-no father's kiss for me!--the girl—
So like her mother, and the boy, my son!"
-"Enoch Arden," TENNYSON.

WRETCHEDNESS

pressed Force. unequal Waves.

AND DESPAIR.-Aspirated Quality. Sup-
Deliberate Movement. Semitonic Thirds and

"Is there a way to forget to think?

At your age, sir, home, fortune, friends,
A dear girl's love, but I took to drink,—
The same old story; you know how it ends.
If you could have seen these classic features,-
You need n't laugh, sir; they were not then
Such a burning libel on God's creatures:
I was one of your handsome men!

"You've set me talking, sir; I'm sorry;

M. E.-28.

It makes me wild to think of the change!

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What do you care for a beggar's story?
Is it amusing? you find it strange?
I had a mother so proud of me!

'Twas well she died before-Do you know
If the happy spirits in heaven can see

The ruin and wretchedness here below?"

-"The Vagabonds," TROWBRIDGE.

The Energized
Extended

DECLAMATORY FORCE.—Expulsive Orotund.
Utterance giving a final pressure to the Syllables.
Waves and Wider Intervals.

Mr. President, I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachusetts; she needs none. There she is; behold her, and judge for yourselves. There is her history; the world knows it by heart. The past, at least, is secure. There is Boston, and Concord, and Lexington, and Bunker Hill; and there they will remain forever. The bones of her sons, fallen in the great struggle for Independence, now lie mingled with the soil of every state, from New England to Georgia; and there they will lie forever.

“And, sir, where American Liberty raised its first voice, and where its youth was nurtured and sustained, there it still lives, in the strength of its manhood, and full of its original spirit. If discord and disunion shall wound it; if party strife and blind ambition shall hawk at and tear it; if fully and madness, if uneasiness under salutary and necessary restraint, shall succeed in separating it from that Union, by which alone its existence is made sure,-it will stand, in the end, by the side of that cradle in which its infancy was rocked; it will stretch forth its arm with whatever of vigor it may still retain, over the friends who gather round it; and it will fall at last, if fall it must, amid the proudest monuments of its own glory, and on the very spot of its origin."

"South Carolina and Massachusetts," WEBSTER.

DECLAMATORY FORCE.-Expulsive Orotund. Deliberate Movement. Wider Intervals and Unequal Waves.

"Lochiel! Lochiel: beware of the day

When the Lowlands shall meet thee in battle array!
For a held of the dead rushes red on my sight,

And the clans of Culloden are scattered in flight.
They rally, they bleed, for their kingdom and crown;
Woe, woe to the riders that trample them down.

O crested Lochiel! the peerless in might,
Whose banners arise on the battlements' height,
Heaven's fire is around thee, to blast and to burn;
Return to thy dwelling! all lonely return!
For the blackness of ashes shall mark where it stood,
And a wild mother scream o'er her famishing brood."
-"Lochiel's Warning," CAmpbell.

IMPATIENCE, AND STERN, IMPETUOUS COMMAND.-Aspirated Expulsive Orotund. Falling Fifths and Discrete Rising

Thirds.

"But William answer'd short:

I can not marry Dora; by my life,

I will not marry Dora.' Then the old man

Was wroth, and doubled up his hands, and said:
'You will not, boy! you dare to answer thus!
But in my time a father's word was law,
And so it shall be now for me. Look to it;
Consider, William: take a month to think,
And let me have an answer to my wish;
Or by the Lord that made me, you shall pack,
And nevermore darken my doors again."

-" Dora," TENNYSON.

CHAPTER XXVII.

Median Stress.

219. MEDIAN STRESS has been shown to be an enforcement of the middle of the concrete, giving the effect of a swelling fullness to that part of the syllabic utterance.

This stress sets forth intensity of voice with greater dignity and elegance than all the other forms of force. It is used, therefore, as the natural means of enforcing those sentiments and emotions that are combined with, or have their root in, elevated thought and the fervor of the imagination. The swell of the median has a greater or less degree of fullness, extent and enforcement, according as the feelings it expresses have more or less of ardor, depth, and grandeur.

It may, then, appear under all modifications of degree, from the gentle swell which marks the tranquil flowing out. of the voice on the long quantities of the language of quiet, pathetic sentiment or solemnity, to the firm and swelling. energy which enforces the emphasis of language indicative of a high degree of power, combined with dignity or elevation of feeling. In its lighter forms, and combined with the lesser waves, median stress may prevail as a drift of dignified expression; but, when its more vivid degrees are blended with the extended intonation of the wider intervals and waves, it should only be used as an occasional emphasis, otherwise it will degenerate into bombastic ex

cess.

220. The gentle force of the median swell, sometimes called the temporal pressure, should be placed on every syllable of quantity in the following example, which has already been given to illustrate the use of the wave of the second. Median stress and this wave, given with long quantity, are almost invariably combined, as they unite to express the same emotions of dignity and grandeur:

"High on a throne of royal state, which far
Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind."

The wave could be extended to the extent of a third in a fuller expression of elevated admiration. This example furnishes an instance of a drift of the median stress. On the other hand, we have it as a solitary and impressive emphasis in the dignified but strong rebuke contained in the following language:

"And Nathan said unto David, thou art the man!"

Here the swell may be given on a descending fifth or octave, or on a wave of the third or fifth. The effect of the median stress is much enhanced by the tremor, and where it is thus given with the full volume of the orotund, it expresses the highest effect of sublimity and grandeur of which the human voice is capable. It should be thus applied to the following lines:

"Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State!
Sail on, O Union, strong and great!"

221. This form of expression is utterly incompatible with haste or violence, just as the forcible forms of the other stresses are incompatible with grace and deliberation. In the case of the latter, the delicate attenuation of the equable concrete gives way to the impelling power of energy or

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