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ELEMENTS OF EMPHASIS IN COMBINATION.

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As determined by the general spirit of phrases and passages: Movement becomes slower in all phrases For states of mind representing what moves slowly, or introducing into the general sense importance, information or peculiarity; and faster in those representing what moves fast, or expressing what is comparatively valueless, known, acknowledged, forestalled or repetitious in statement or sequence. In some of the same phrases are also changes in melody and key; and in some (with or without changes in melody and key) in force and also in quality.

meas. judgm't.

Movement. Light, gay, lively and un

Fast.

controlled.

Intermediate, placid.

Serious, grave, dignified

and self-determined.

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Moderate.

energy.

General Force.

Natural.

Slow.

Unvaried.

Low.

Suppressed.

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a. On with the dance! let joy be unconfined. . .
To chase the glowing hours with flying feet;
But hark! that.. sound breaks in once more,
And nearer, clearer, deadlier than before!
Arm! Arm! it is!-it is!-the cannon's opening
roar !

b. Be we men, and suffer such dishonor?

Ì have known deeper wrongs; I that speak to ye,
I had a brother once-a gracious boy,
Full of all gentleness, of calmest hope,
Of sweet and quiet jòy.

c. Thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend
into heaven. I will be like the Most High; yet
thou shalt be brought down to hell, and worms
shall consume thy body.

d. Last eve, in Beauty's circle, proudly gay,
The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife;
The morn, the marshalling in arms; the day,
Battle's magnificently stern array!

The thunder-clouds close o'er it, which when
rent

The earth is covered thick with . . . heaped and pent,

Rider and horse,-friend,-foe,-in one red burial blent!

e. PURE.

I see Queen Mab has been with you. Aspirate. I see what

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RECAPITULATION OF REPRESENTATIVE COMBINATIONS.

141. The following sentiments, when not blended with others that require a different expression, are usually represented thus:

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ELEMENTS OF EMPHASIS IN COMBINATION.

142. On consulting the diagram (§ 140) it will be noticed that, as a rule, in consecutive discourse, fast time, raried and high pitch, sustained force and thin (pure or aspirate) volume go with one another; also slow time, unvaried and low pitch, suppressed force and full (orotund, guttural or pectoral) volume. In other words,

143. In the degree in which the mental state to be expressed is light, gay, lively or uncontrolled, for any cause, the time is fast, the pitch varied and high, the force sustained and the volume thin (pure or aspirate).

Light, gay banter.

1. Oh! then I see Queen Mab has been with you.

She comes

In shape no bigger than an agate-stone
On the fore-finger of an alderman,
Drawn with a team of little atomies
Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep:

And in this state she gallops night by night
Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love:
On courtiers' knees, that dream on court'sies straight:
O'er lawyers' fingers, who straight dream on fees:
O'er ladies' lips, who straight on kisses dream.

Gay, lively description.

2. One touch to her hand, and one word in her ear,When they reached the hall door, where the charger

stood near:

So light to the croupe the fair lady he swung,

So light to the saddle before her he sprung!

66 She is won!

we are gone, over bank, bush, and

scaur;

They'll have fleet steeds that follow," quoth young
Lochinvar.

There was mounting 'mong Græmes of the Netherby
clan;

Forsters, Fenwicks, and Musgraves, they rode and they ran:

There was racing, and chasing, o'er Cannobie Lee;

But the lost bride of Netherby ne'er did they see.-
So daring in love, and so dauntless in war,
Have ye e'er heard of gallant like young Lochinvar?"

Uncontrolled delight.

3. So you must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear;

To-morrow 'll be the happiest time of all the glad
New-Year:

To-morrow 'll be of all the year the maddest, mer-
riest day,

For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be
Queen o' the May.

Uncontrolled astonishment.

4. This drudge laid claim to me; called me Dromio; swore I was assured to her; told me what private marks I had about me, as the mark of my shoulder, the mole in my neck, the great wart on my left arm,—that I, amazed, ran from her as a witch; and I think, if my breast had not been made of faith, and my heart of steel, she had transformed me to a curtail-dog, and made me turn i' the wheel.

The extreme, uncontrolled terror, as in the scream of sudden fright.

Oh, murder, murder, murder! - who's there?

144. In the degree in which the mental state to be expressed is serious, grave, dignified or self-determined, for any cause, the time is slow, the pitch unvaried and low, the force suppressed, and the volume full (oratund, guttural or pectoral).

Serious, grave, dignified, self-determined appeal.

1. Sir, before God, I believe the hour is come. My judgment approves this measure, and my whole heart is in it. All that I have, and all that I am, and all that I hope, in this life, I am now ready here to stake upon it; and I leave off, as I began, that live or die, survive or perish, I am for the declaration. It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment: independence, now; and INDEPENDENCE FOREVER.

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