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Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon,
Making night hideous; and we fools of nature,
So horridly to shake our disposition

With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?"

2.- Horror and Terror: effect still farther increased.
CLARENCE, [RELATING HIS DREAM.]-Shakspeare.

"Oh! I have passed a miserable night,
So full of fearful dreams, of ugly sights,
That, as I am a Christian faithful man,
I would not spend another such a night,
Though 't were to buy a world of happy days;
So full of dismal terror was the time!

"My dream was lengthened after life : —
Oh! then began the tempest to my soul!
"With that, methought, a legion of foul fiends
Environed me, and howled in mine ears
Such hideous cries, that, with the very noise,
I trembling waked, and, for a season after,
Could not believe but that I was in hell;
Such terrible impression made my dream!

3.- Fear.

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(Whispering Voice: "Guttural Quality.")

CALIBAN, [CONDUCTING STEPHANO AND TRINCULO TO THE CELL OF PROS

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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?

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Sebastian. Whiles we stood here, securing your repose,

Even now, we heard a hollow burst of bellowing

Like bulls or rather lions: did it not wake you?

It struck mine ear most terribly.

Antonio. Oh! 't was a din to fright a monster's ear:

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SHYLOCK, [REGARDING ANTONIO.]

"How like a fawning publican he looks!
I hate him for he is a Christian;
But more, for that, in low simplicity,
He lends out money gratis, and brings down
The rate of usuance with us here in Venice.
If I can catch him once upon the hip,

I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him!
He hates our sacred nation; and he rails,
Even there where merchants most do congregate,
On me, my bargains, and my well-won thrift,
Which he calls interest. Cursed be my tribe,
• If I forgive him!"

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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;

And at thy music my poor soul to death
Should dance before thee!

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Thou standst at length before me undisguised, -
Of all earth's grovelling crew the most accursed.
Thou worm! thou viper!—to thy native earth
Return!-Away! - Thou art too base for man
To tread upon.
-Thou scum! thou reptile!

3.-Revenge.

("Guttural and Pectoral Quality.")

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SHYLOCK, [REFERRING TO THE POUND OF FLESH, THE PENALTY ATTACHED TO ANTONIO'S BOND.]-Shakspeare.

"If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me, and hindered me of half a million; laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated my enemies. And what's his reason? I am a Jew! Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Is he not fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same summer and winter, as a Christian is? If you stab us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge. The villany you teach me, I will execute; and it shall go hard, but I will better the instruction."

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("Guttural and Pectoral Quality :" fierce "aspiration.")

SATAN, [IN SOLILOQUY.] Milton.

"Be then his love accursed! since love or hate,

To me alike, it deals eternal woe.

Nay, cursed be thou! since against his thy will

Chose freely what it now so justly rues.

Me miserable! which way shall I fly
Infinite wrath and infinite despair?
Which way I fly is Hell, myself am Hell ;
And in the lowest deep, a lower deep,
Still threatening to devour me, opens wide,
To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven!"

5.- Horror, Terror, and Alarm.

("Pectoral Quality.")

MACBETH, [TO THE GHOST OF BANQUO.]—Shakspeare.

"Avaunt! and quit my sight! Let the earth hide thee!
Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold:

Thou hast no speculation in those eyes

Which thou dost glare with!

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[DYING REQUEST.]-Mrs. Hemans.

"Leave me!-thy footstep with its lightest sound,
The very shadow of thy waving hair,
Wakes in my soul a feeling too profound,

Too strong for aught that lives and dies, to bear:
Oh! bid the conflict cease!

(“Expulsive” utterance.)

Rapture.

[FROM THE DYING CHRISTIAN.] - Pope.

"Hark! they whisper, — angels say,
'Sister spirit! come away!'"'

("Explosive" utterance.)

Terror.

[FROM BYRON'S LINES ON THE EVE OF WATERLOO.]

"The foe! they come, they come!'

1 "Suppressed force is not limited exclusively to the forms of the whisper or the half-whisper. Still, it is usually found in one or other of these; and, on this account, although sometimes intensely earnest and energetic in the expression of feeling, it is a gradation of utterance which, in point of "vocality," ranks below even the "moderate" and "subdued" forms of "pure tone." We regard, at present, its value in vocal force, not in "expression."

Half-whisper.

("Effusive" utterance.)

Awe.

[FROM THE FATE OF MACGREGOR.] — Hogg.

"They oared the broad Lomond, so still and serene;
And deep in her bosom how awful the scene!
Over mountains inverted the blue water curled,
And rocked them o'er skies of a far nether world!"

("Expulsive" utterance.)

Fear.

"Few minutes had passed, ere they spied on the stream,
A skiff sailing light, where a lady did seem:

Her sail was a web of the gossamer's loom,

The glow-worm her wake-light, the rainbow her boom;

A dim rayless beam was her prow, and her mast
Like wold-fire at midnight, that glares o'er the waste!"

("Explosive" utterance.)

Terror.

"The fox fled in terror; the eagle awoke,

As slumbering he dozed in the shelve of the rock;
Astonished, to hide in the moonbeam he flew,
And screwed the night-heaven, till lost in the blue!"

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[FROM THE DEATH OF KÖRNER.] Mrs. Hemans.

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"It was thy spirit, brother! which had made
The bright world glorious to her youthful eye,
Since first, in childhood, 'midst the vines ye played,
And sent glad singing through the free blue sky.

1 The degree of force implied in the epithet "subdued," is equivalent, in general, to that which, in music, would be indicated by the term "piano," and which suggests an obvious softening of the voice from even its moderate or ordinary energy. Pathos, solemnity, and tranquillity, when so arranged in succession, imply a slight increase of energy at every stage. But all three are still inferior to "moderate" or ordinary force.

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