SCORN is similar to contempt, but louder, of larger volume, and longer slides, usually falling. Thus : May their fate be a mock-word! may men of all lands Laugh out with a scorn that shall ring to the poles ! MOORE. MALICE, which is a settled state of the mind, is usually of moderate force, moderate or slow movement, low pitch, initial stress, strongly aspirated or guttural quality, small volume, short slides. Thus: Aside the devil turned Thus these two, The happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill Of bliss on bliss; while I to hell am thrust! MILTON. It is usually loud, SCOLDING is similar to Impatience. quick, high, but may snarl in a moderate or low pitch; of impure quality, small volume, marked initial stress; short slides, often circumflex. Thus : CAPULET. How now ! how now, chop-logic! What is this? "Proud" and, "I thank you" and, "I thank you not"; And yet "not proud"! Mistress minion, you, Thank me no thankings, nor proud me no prouds; But fettle your fine joints 'gainst Thursday next To go with Paris to St. Peter's church; Or I will drag thee on a hurdle thither! You tallow-face! LADY CAPULET. Fie! fie! what, are you mad? JULIET. Good father, I beseech you on my knees, Hear me with patience but to speak a word. CAPULET. Hang thee, young baggage! disobedient wretch ! I tell thee what, — get thee to church o' Thursday, Or never after look me in the face! Speak not; reply not; do not answer me! SHAKESPEARE. ANGER, when it has not settled into cool malice, is usually loud, quick, of moderate or high pitch; very impure, the words being hissed or growled; of small volume, the teeth being set; abrupt, explosive, initial stress, sometimes vanishing; long slides, often falling, but sometimes circumflex. Thus: :Then in the last gasp of thine agony, Amid thy many murders, think of mine! Thou den of drunkards with the blood of princes! Thus I devote thee to the infernal gods! Thee and thy serpent seed! BYRON. RAGE and FURY are usually very loud, very quick, very high, very impure, of very large volume, very abrupt initial stress, and long slides, often falling. Thus : DEFIANCE is usually quick, high, very loud, of very large volume, very impure quality, abrupt initial stress, and long slides. Thus: Here I stand ready for impeachment or trial. I dare accusation. I defy the honorable gentleman; I defy the government; I defy their whole phalanx. Let them come forth! I tell the ministers, I will neither give quarter nor take it! GRATTAN. COMMAND is usually loud, of moderate or quick movement, moderate or high pitch, large volume; pure quality, unless angry; marked initial stress; long falling slides. Thus: Uzziel! Half these draw off, and coast the south MILTON. BOLDNESS is usually loud, quick, of moderate or high pitch, large volume, moderately pure quality, moderate falling slides, initial stress. Thus : Then out spake brave Horatius, The captain of the gate: "Hew down the bridge, Sir Consul, May well be stopped by three : And keep the bridge with me?" MACAULAY. DECISION is usually rather loud, rather quick, of moderate pitch, moderate or pure quality, moderate volume; marked, but not explosive, initial stress; moderate falling slides. Thus : Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them! And the harp and the viol, the tabret and pipe and wine are in their feasts; but they regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands. Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge; and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst. Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure; and their glory and their multitude and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it; and the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled. ISAIAH. Would you, then, learn to dissipate the band Resolve, resolve! and to be men aspire ! Here to mankind indulged; control desire ; Speak the commanding word, "I will !" and it is done. THOMSON. BUSINESS, OF MATTER OF FACT, is usually moderate in force, movement, and pitch; of medium quality; small volume; initial, but not marked stress; short, variable slides. ... Thus : This is Detroit, the commercial metropolis of Michigan. It is a prosperous and beautiful city, and worthy of your pride. I have enjoyed its hospitalities liberal and long. . . . . Seventy miles west of Detroit is Leoni, an obscure district containing two villages, Leoni and Michigan Center. Here in this dock are the principal citizens of that community. Either they have committed a great crime against this State, or there is a conspiracy of infamous persons to effect their ruin through the machinery of the law. - SEWARD. SECRECY is usually of slight or very slight force, quick movement, and is carried on in a whisper or undertone. In the following passage secrecy is blended with admiration, and controls the expression; which, however, is somewhat softened. What is 't? a spirit? Lord, how it looks about! Believe me, sir, It carries a brave form: but 'tis a spirit! A thing divine; for nothing natural I ever saw so noble. SHAKESPEARE. In the following, secrecy is blended with malice, and preponderates in the reading. The whispering voice, however, is greatly roughened by the hatred. KING JOHN. Good Hubert, Hubert, Hubert! throw thine eye On yon young boy. I'll tell thee what, my friend, He is a very serpent in my way! And wheresoe'er this foot of mine doth tread, He lies before me. Dost thou understand me? FEAR is usually of soft force, except when frantic; of very quick movement; low pitch, except in great fright; strongly aspirated quality; small volume; tremulous, or spasmodic, initial stress; short slides, mostly falling. Thus : While thronged the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering with white lips, "The foe! they come ! they come !" BYRON.. TERROR affects different persons differently. When extreme, it is usually very loud, shrieking; very quick; very high; very impure, but the high notes may be pure; of variable volume, usually large; spasmodic initial stress, may be thorough or tremulous; long slides. Thus : Avaunt! and quit my sight! Let the earth hide thee! Thou hast no speculation in those eyes Which thou doth glare with! SHAKESPEARE. So the young prince Arthur, when he catches a glimpse of the ugly executioners who are to burn out his eyes, exclaims, O, save me, Hubert, save me! My eyes are out, Even with the fierce looks of these bloody men ! AWE has already been explained on pages 35 and 36. The following passage illustrates it : It thunders! Sons of dust, in reverence bow! I hear thy awful voice! Alarmed, afraid, DMITRIEV. |