And near, the beat of the alarming drum
Roused up the soldier ere the morning star;

While throng'd the citizen with terror dumb,

Or whispering, with white lips, The foe! They come! they CHILDE HAROLD. — Byron.

come!'"

"Oh! horror! horror! horror!

Tongue nor heart,

Cannot conceive, nor name thee! . . .

Confusion now hath made his masterpiece!
Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope
The Lord's anointed temple, and stole thence
The life of the building.

...

Approach the chamber, and destroy your sight

With a new Gorgon!".

Macduff, in MACBETH.

"Angels and ministers of grace defend us!

Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damn'd,

Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell,

Be thy intents wicked, or charitable,

Thou com'st in such a questionable shape

That I will speak to thee; I'll call thee, Hamlet,

King, father, royal Dane: O, answer me:

Let me not burst in ignorance! but tell,

Why thy canoniz'd bones, hearsed in death,
Have burst their cerements! why the sepulchre,
Wherein we saw thee quietly in-urn'd,
Hath op'd his ponderous and marble jaws,
To cast thee up again! What may this mean,
That thou, dead corse, again, in cómplete steel,
Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon,
Making night hideous: and we fools of nature,
So horribly to shake our disposition,

With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?
Say, why is this? wherefore? what should we do?"

Hamlet to Ghost.

GUTTURAL QUALITY.

The Guttural is a deep under-tone used to express hatred,

contempt, and concentrated malignity or loathing.

Examples.

"War! war! no peace! peace is to me a war.

O Lymoges! O Austria! thou dost shame

That bloody spoil: Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward:

Thou little valiant, great in villany!

Thou ever strong upon the stronger side!

Thou fortune's champion, that dost never fight

But when her humorous ladyship is by

To teach thee safety!"- Constance, in KING JOHN.

"I'll have my bond; I will not hear thee speak:
I'll have my bond; and therefore speak no more.
I'll not be made a soft and dull-eyed fool,

To shake the head, relent, and sigh, and yield
To Christian intercessors. Follow not;

I'll have no speaking; I will have my bond."

Shylock, in THE MERCHANT OF VENICE.

"Gone to be married!

Gone to swear a peace!

False blood to false blood joined! Gone to be friends! Shall Lewis have Blanche? and Blanche these provinces? It is not so; thou hast misspoke, misheard;

Be well advised, tell o'er thy tale again:

It cannot be; thou dost but say, 'tis so."

Constance, in KING JOHN

"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 here with us 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: Curst be my tribe,
If I forgive him!" - Shylock, in MERCHANT OF VENICE.

"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."

Satan, in PARadise Lost.

"Traitor!' I go-but I return. This trial! Here I devote your senate! I've had wrongs, To stir a fever in the blood of age,

Or make the infant's sinews strong as steel.

This day 's the birth of sorrows! This hour's work
Will breed proscriptions: - Look to your hearths, my lords!
For there, henceforth, shall sit, for household gods,
Shapes hot from Tartarus! - all shames and crimes!
Wan Treachery, with his thirsty dagger drawn;
Suspicion, poisoning his brother's cup;
Naked Rebellion, with the torch and axe,
Making his wild sport of your blazing thrones;
Till Anarchy come down on you like Night
And Massacre seal Rome's eternal grave!"

Catiline to the Senate.-CROLY.

THE FALSETTO.

The Falsetto is that peculiar tone, heard in the higher degrees of pitch, after the natural voice breaks, or apparently outruns its power. It is used in the emphatic scream of terror or pain; in the expression of extreme surprise, mockery, &c.

Examples.

"He said he would not ransom Mortimer;
Forbade my tongue to speak of Mortimer;

But I will find him when he lies asleep,

And in his ear I'll holla-Mortimer!'

Nay, I'll have a starling shall be taught to speak
Nothing but Mortimer,' and give it him,

To keep his anger still in motion."

Hotspur, in HENRY FOURTH.

"Signior Antonio, many a time and oft,
In the Rialto you have rated me
About my money and my usances:
Still have I borne it with a patient shrug:
For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe:
You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog,
And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine,
And all for use of that which is mine own.
Well then, it now appears you need my help:
Go to then you come to me, and you say,
Shylock, we would have monies; You say so;
You, that did void your rheum upon my beard,
And foot me, as you spurn a stranger cur
Over your threshold; monies is your suit.
What should I say to you? Should I not say,
Hath a dog money? is it possible,

A cur can lend three thousand ducats? or
Shall I bend low, and in a bondman's key,
With bated breath, and whispering humbleness,
Say this,-

Fair sir, you spit on me on Wednesday last:
You spurn'd me such a day: another time
You called me dog: and for these courtesies
I'll lend you thus much monies."

Shylock, in MERCHANT OF VENICE.

"O upright judge! - Mark, Jew; -O learned judge!"

"A Daniel, still say I; a second Daniel!

Gratiano, in Ibid.

I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word."— Ibid.

"Ah!' she said, 'the eyes of Pauguk

Glare upon me in the darkness,

I can feel his icy fingers

Clasping mine amid the darkness!
Hiawatha! Hiawatha!'

And the desolate Hiawatha,
Far away amid the forest,

Miles away among the mountains,
Heard that sudden cry of anguish,
Heard the voice of Minnehaha

Calling to him in the darkness,

'Hiawatha Hiawatha!'"- Longfellow.

TREMOR.

The Tremor or Trembling Tone consists of a tremulous iteration, or a number of impulses of sound of the least assignable duration. It is used in excessive grief, pity, plaintiveness; in an intense degree of suppressed excitement, or satisfaction; and when the voice is enfeebled by age.

"The Tremor is made subservient to all kinds of passion; for there is scarce a passion, whether of joy, grief, or exultation, there is scarce even a sentiment, whether of tenderness or supplication, contempt, indignant scorn, or any other connatural state of feeling, to which this function of the voice does not at times add a much higher degree of impressiveness than could be effected solely by the concrete movement."-Tower.

Examples.

"Willows whiten, aspens quiver,

Little breezes dusk and shiver
Thro' the wave that runs forever

By the island in the river

Flowing down to Camelot.

Four gray walls, and four gray towers,
Overlook a space of flowers,

And the silent isle embowers

The Lady of Shalott."- Tennyson.

"Weep, my Eschylus,

But low and far, upon Sicilian shores!

For since 't was Athens (so I read the myth)
Who gave commission to that fatal weight,
The tortoise, cold and hard, to drop on thee
And crush thee,-better cover thy bald head;
She'll hear the forest hum of Hyblan bee
Before thy loud'st protesting.”

AURORA LEIGH,

"St. Agnes' Eve - Ah, bitter chill it was!

The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold;

Mrs. Browning.

The hair limped trembling through the frozen grass,
And silent was the flock in woolly fold:

Numb were the Beadsmans' fingers, while he told