Hung in the golden Galaxy. As he rode down to Camelot: "All in the blue unclouded weather As often thro' the purple night, "His broad clear brow in sunlight glow'd; He flash'd into the crystal mirror, 6 Tirra lirra,' by the river Sang Sir Lancelot." "The Lady of Shalott," TENNYSON. FORCIBLE RADICAL. 214. The forcible, emphatic, or impassioned radical stress, varying in degree from vehement explosion to an earnest energy of abruptness, is expressive of all passions or emotions of a violent, bold, impetuous, impulsive, or energetic character; as strong anger, and states allied to it: wrath, rage, impatience, courage, exultation, and imperious mirth. The abrupt burst of violent utterance which characterizes the impassioned vocality of fierce anger, issues from the organs with an eruptive blast of force that seems at times to give an almost superhuman intensity to the sound of the voice. Thus, when "the goblin full of wrath," in his attempt to repel the arch fiend from the gate of his infernal prison, bursts out in the fierce command, "Back to thy punishment, false fugitive," the emphatic words find utterance in the most impassioned form of radical stress. Aspirated force on the intensely impassioned radical stress. is exemplified in Shylock's vindictive exclamation : “Cursed be my tribe, if I forgive him.” Nature's primitive language of impassioned exclamation often receives its power and intensity of expression from the vehement explosion of sound which startles the ear with its instantaneous burst of force, as in the outbreak of angry indignation contained in the foilowing words of Beatrice: "O heaven, that I were a man! I would cut his heart in the market-place.". Or in the sudden terror expressed in the words of Juliet: "O! look! methinks I see my cousin's ghost, Or in the alarm of Lady Macbeth: “llack! I am afraid they have awaked, and 'tis not done." Radical stress is also expressive of great positiveness in the state of the mind, and is, therefore, employed in imperative words of command, for the purpose of enforcing authority. Thus, in the military commands, Attention! Right Face! Shoulder Arms! March! Halt! Forward! etc., it is the clear, strong explosion of the forcible radical stress which reaches every ear, and seems, in its sudden and decisive character, to compel attention and obedience. The intermediate degrees of force in the radical stress, lying between the vehement outburst of passionative excitement and the merely accidental or distinctive form of this stress, are the signs of impulsive or impetuous earnestness of feeling, not amounting to the vehemence of ungoverned passion. Thus, in the eagerness and imaginative fervor of the following language of Juliet, the emphatic syllables would receive this simply energetic force or fullness of the radical stress: “Gallop apace, ye fiery footed steeds, 'Toward Phoebus' mansion; such a waggoner As Phaeton would whip you to the west, The abrupt explosive enforcement of the radical stress is the only means of giving emphatic distinction or expression to immutable syllables. When, therefore, such syllables require strong emphasis, it must be accomplished by this stress, as in the expression of exultation in the word victory in the first of the following examples, and in that of angry impatience in the word iteration of the second : "He shook the fragment of his blade and shouted victory!" "Why this iteration, woman?” 215. The most forcible or impassioned form of radical stress, like all other extremes of expression, is to be employed only as in distinction of emphatic words or phrases in the current of language. It should never form a drift in utterance. Where it gives the general color of expression to a succession of words, however, by marking the most prominent, those that are subordinate in expression will generally take on, in the natural consonancy of effects, some degree of the same energetic movement, more or less diminished, according as their individual value shall demand a lesser emphasis or simply an energetic articulation. Only a persistent and disciplined exercise of the organs will secure that command over them by which syllables and words are launched, as it were, from the mouth, and swept in the current of utterance into the ear in compact, penetrating, and vivid forms of forcible expression. The attention has been repeatedly directed to the fact of the organic act of occlusion necessarily preceding the radical abruptness of sound. This occlusion is most under command, and the explosion can be most perfectly given, on syllables beginning with a tonic element or with an abrupt one preceding a tonic. When a syllable begins with a subtonic or atonic which is not abrupt, a clear and forcible radical stress is not practicable. Some extent of abruptness can be given, however, by an energetic practice. on such combinations. SUGGESTIVE EXERCISES. 216. First utter words in columns with moderate, then earnest, then vehement radical stress. Then read in the sentence form, with the requisite degree of force and abruptness, on each marked syllable, calculated to fully express the fierce and vehement nature of the language employed. It must be borne in mind that these sentences have been arranged only with an eye to the prescribed oral effect; they present within a limited space a large number of words fitted to the expression of fierce abruptness and violent emotion, which it is the function of radical stress to enforce; besides, from not being involved and inverted in construction, they require no particular exercise of mind to grasp their meaning. Though--burly---blattant_and_blustering—he—challenged — the challenger-yet---the-out-dared—dastard—failed-to--meet - the - Behold the result! charge. He had — boasted —and bragged-of-his-power-to hurl-back-and-crush-his--antagonist. A-beggar-for-mercy-knee-is-bent-head - uncovered. - Trem · the — bold — man\y — bear ing--of-the-fearless--champion-of-innocence. Hark!―'t is-the-trumpets'-clang-three-times-it-sounds. Listen-to-the-herald's-voice-it-thunders-forth.- Recreant - and-coward-depart.—Dishonored—and — branded -never-more shalt thou--hold-lance-in-rest-or--falchion-wield-in-honor able-warfare. Executioner-blot-out-his-motto-and-strike-off-his-spurs.— Henceforth-let-the-name-of-Gaspard - Count -de-Burgobe—as—a—scoff-a-mockery--and — a — by-word — to — all — honor able-men. So-adjudge-the-noble-peers-of-this-high lute-and-unalterable, An excellent practice consists in taking any piece of composition, abounding in strong declamatory or dramatic passages, and subjecting it to the above treatment, first making columns of words of accentual or emphatic force, then phrase them, and finally combine in the form of sen tences. 217. The precise exactness of the initial opening which is insisted upon as a requisite of elementary practice for the purposes of vocal discipline, is not to be carried into the current of speech, even in the most violent utterance. The organs properly trained on the elements will respond |