Satan, [to Death.] "Whence and what art thou, execrable shape! To yonder gates? Through them I mean to pass, Retire! or taste thy folly; and learn by proof, Death, [in reply.] "Back to thy punishment, Thy lingering, or, with one stroke of this dart, Strange horror seize thee, and pangs unfelt before!" 4.- Infuriate Anger. THE DOGE OF VENICE, [ON THE EVE OF HIS EXECUTION, IN THE CONCLUDING WORDS OF HIS CURSE ON THE CITY.]— Byron's Marino Falieri. "Thou den of drunkards with the blood of princes! Thus I devote thee to the infernal gods! Thee and thy serpent seed! [To the executioner.] Slave, do thine office! [BOZZARIS, TO HIS BAND OF SULIOTES.] - Halleck. "Strike till the last armed foe expires! Strike for your altars and your fires! Strike for the green graves of your sires, God and your native land!” 1 The fierceness of emotion, in some instances, adds "aspirated quality "to "orotund." EXERCISES IN "ASPIRATED QUALITY." I." EFFUSIVE UTTERANCE. 1.- Awe, in its gentlest form, with moderate" Aspiration.” ("Pectoral Quality.") Note. The effect intended here is but the slightest approach to a whisper, —a barely perceptible breathing sound accompanying the utterance, - not unlike, in its effect, to a slight hoarseness. [JACOB'S EXCLAMATION AFTER HIS Dream.] "How dreadful is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and the gate of heaven!" 2.-The same emotion deepened. [FROM THE BOOK OF PSALMS.] "Of old hast Thou laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the work of Thy hands. They shall perish, but Thou shalt endure; yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt Thou change them, and they shall be changed: but Thou art the same; and Thy years shall have no end. "Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever Thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, Thou art God. "Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, 'Return, ye children of men.' For a thousand years, in Thy sight, are but as yesterday, when it is past, and as a watch in the night. "Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning, they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth and groweth up: in the evening, it is cut down, and withereth." 3.-Awe, still deeper in “expression," and stronger in “ aspiration.” [NATURE, SHRINKING FROM DEATH.] — Campbell. "Yet half I hear the parting spirit sigh, Mysterious worlds, untravelled by the sun,- "T is Heaven's commanding trumpet, long and loud, 5 Like Sinai's thunder pealing from the cloud! 4.- Awe, extending to Fear: with still stronger " aspiration.” [FROM A RUSSIAN HYMN.]-Bowring. "It thunders! Sons of dust, in reverence bow! I hear Thy awful voice,― alarmed, afraid, And in the very grave would hide my head!" - Horror and Fear: the effect transcending that of Awe; the MACBETH, [MEDITATING THE MURDER OF DUNCAN.]— Shakspeare. "Now o'er the one half world Nature seems dead; and wicked dreams abuse Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, Moves like a ghost. · Thou sure and firm-set earth! Hear not my steps, which way they walk; for fear The very stones prate of my whereabout, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it." II.—" EXPULSIVE UTTERANCE. 1.-Horror and Amazement: "aspiration" increased by “expulsion.” ("Pectoral Quality.") HAMLET, [TO THE GHOST OF HIS FATHER.]-Shakspeare. That thou, dead corse, again, in complete steel, Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?" 2.- Horror and Terror: effect still farther increased. “Oh! I have passed a miserable night, "My dream was lengthened after life: Such terrible impression made my dream! 3.- Fear. (Whispering Voice: "Guttural Quality.") CALIBAN, [CONDUCTING STEPHANO AND TRINCULO TO THE CELL OF PROSPERO.]-Shakspeare. "Pray you tread softly, that the blind mole may not Speak softly! All's hushed as midnight yet. See'st thou here? This is the mouth o' the cell: no noise! and enter." 4.- Fear and Alarm. (Forcible Half-Whisper: "Pectoral Quality.") ALONZO, [WHO, WITH GONZALO, IS SUDDENLY AWAKENED BY THE INTERVENTION OF ARIEL, AND FINDS THE CONSPIRATORS, SEBASTIAN AND ANTONIO, WITH THEIR SWORDS DRAWN.]-Shakspeare. "Why, how now, ho!-awake? Why are you drawn? Wherefore this ghastly looking? Gonzalo. Sebastian. What's the matter? Whiles we stood here, securing your repose, Even now, we heard a hollow burst of bellowing It struck mine ear most terribly. Antonio. Oh! 't was a din to fright a monster's ear: To make an earthquake! EXPLOSIVE UTTERANCE. ("Guttural and Pectoral Quality.") SHYLOCK, [REGARDING ANTONIO.] "How like a fawning publican he looks! He lends out money gratis, and brings down I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him! 2.- Scorn and Abhorrence. ("Guttural and Pectoral Quality.") MASANIELLO, [IN REPLY TO THE BASE SUGGESTIONS OF GENUINO.] "I would that now I could forget the monk who stands before me; For he is like the accursed and crafty snake! Hence! from my sight!-Thou Satan, get behind me Go from my sight! I hate and I despise thee! These were thy pious hopes; and I, forsooth, Was in thy hands a pipe to play upon; |